Problem Solving – Adventure
Problem Solving is one of my inspirations for Games. The stakes are high and so is the stress, but when we succeed the payoff feels great. I like the Scifi…
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2022-08-09
Inspiration
Late Bronze Age Fantasy Setting – Against all Gods by Miles Cameron
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59348054 Against all the Gods Is an audiobook I’m currently listening to which is set in a FANTASY setting similar to the late Bronze age Collapse (1200 and 1150 BCE). …
Read more →Finished The Long War: Killer of men, Marathon, and, Poseidon’s Spear
These books makes me want to run a GURPS game set in that era (early 5C BCE). Although I would recommend getting the Authors Bibliography, GURPS Low Tech, Greece, etc…
Read more →Scifi notes – accessibility and abundance tradeoffs
Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store and the app available has worn my patience) I’ve almost…
Read more →Inspiration: Death Note
Finally Got to Watch Deathnote and it is Amazing and gave me a lot of Ideas. Anyway, the ideas expressed and storytelling in Death-note is great material for my GURPS…
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2013-12-11
Inspiration
Inspiration, catching up with Anime lately
I was able to visit Toei here in the Philippines and have some friends who used to work there. I’m inspired by the production output the Anime Industry comes out…
Read more →Classics Re-Imagined: Ravenloft
Since I’m running a Kitchensink setting, I realized I can just mine old adventures for ideas and put them under the skin of the modern fantasy I’m currently running. I…
Read more →Filipino Mariners, my Inspiration for the Traveller Game
I was first exposed to the lives of Filipino Mariners when I worked for one of the largest seaman manpower companies of the Philippines as a 3d Artist, Magsaysay. We…
Read more →Manoral Life of Various Cutlures
Finished Downton Abbey, I wish I can see various cultural version of a Manoral Household as inspired by their visit to a Scottish Manor – I’d like to see a Chinese Version…
Read more →Nerds are Rogues Too!
Why is it the negative stereotype that makes nerds idiots, despite their brains? I mean real intelligence is adaptability, in the hobby that emphasizes in Preparation, Improvisation and Adaptation I nerds…
Read more →The Spear, the AK 47 of pre-modern times; Lessons on Tactics
http://goo.gl/aQEa5 this is a reddit discussion which I concur with, and want to save for use later on. Been Playing Airsoft more, and learning more and more about tactical implementation.…
Read more →Imagination Exercise: “Light” Armors
In this thread, Dan Howard dispels the gaming Myth about the flexibility of armor (apart from mail). In gaming “Light armors”like leather and Cloth is imagined as the thickness and…
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2010-05-02
Inspiration
Game Experiment: Unknown Rules
What If I played DnD on the surface but all the mechanics used was something else. Players select Scale, Shield, and a broad sword. The “fantasy” stats would be AC5,…
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2010-05-02
Inspiration
OSRIC game planned next week
I was at my bi-monthly Freethinkers meeting and its no surprise to find some of the members being the last generation of Old-school gamers in the group. In fact bringing…
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2010-04-27
Inspiration
Gaming about Gaming
RPG Blog II’s if If RPGs Were More Like Pro Sports… Reminded me of a discussion some friends and I were having: Why not go all the way for a…
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2010-04-21
Inspiration
Progress Report: Excuses
I’ve hit some speed bumps, like everyone else its work and I shouldn’t talk about it here. So far I’ve been busy revamping my stamina system. Physical and Mental Endurance…
Read more →GIMP ON! Some Art tips
Art tips for your Game Book. I spent a good hour and a half learning all the Gimp Hot keys. I bought a notebook to write down all my notes…
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2010-04-09
Inspiration
Getting Serious with making my own RPG book (for myself)
Because I’m a cheap bastard. I’ve tried to draw my map and I’ve been using Autorealm. There are some serious considerations when using the program. One problem is exporting things…
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2010-04-09
Inspiration
The Age of Magic: The Axial Age
In World history, many of the great Philosophers and their Philosophies came around the Axial Age. In RPGs, particularly Fantasy Settings you can get inspiration when you take these great…
Read more →Ancient Clothing and Appearances Musing
Ancient clothing has some tough problems and some easy ones. Tough are the surface area calculations. There is not enough data in modern clothes comparisons online to gain a better…
Read more →Answering Sources; Old School Inspired Tinkering
Answering Sources. Ancient Empires before Alexander is a great read. As for Anarchangels’s question regarding taxation. Sorry I don’t have a detailed account of my sources. I’m only an amateur…
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2010-03-25
Inspiration
Comparing History and Games in contexts of Civilization
After finishing a book on Ancient Empires before Alexander the Great and short nostalgia of Civilization I’m recounting my lessons. It is possible to run a Empire Building Campaign. Having…
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2010-03-23
Inspiration
Civilization 5 as your Mapmaker
I’ve missed Civilization for a while. It sucks too much time. Seeing the new Civilization 5, I found my new map maker. Since there are Authoring tools, I can just…
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2010-03-18
Inspiration
What is the Bronze Age?
I got confused when I learned Alexander was using Iron weapons. I thought the glory days of Hellenism was the Bronze age. I was very wrong. If I were to…
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2010-02-15
Inspiration
Real Monsters: the Psychopath
I began to learn more about them as part of RPG 2 years ago. I admit it was because of a nerd argument that got me to read up as…
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2010-02-12
Inspiration
World Builders Tools: Medieval History
The Teaching Company’s Medieval World lecture, conducted by Dorsey Armstrong is a great way to get into medieval history if your too busy. It has, like many TTC DVDs, a…
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2010-01-18
Inspiration
Kingdom of Jerusalem problems
I’ve complained about the limited material available regarding the Latin Kingdom of Syria also known as “the Kingdom of Jerusalem”. Interestingly my collection of locales far exceeded my the Medieval…
Read more →Your Own Hell , Ravenloft your Setting.
Looking at my old Ravenloft books and how much I’ve learned about history over the years, my definition of Tragedy has changed. Especially since I’ve become more humanist in my…
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2009-11-11
Inspiration
Mount&Blade WARBAND: Inspiring my Games
I only began checking back when war band is supposed to be released because I’m supposed to present a game for class. Particularly how Tale-worlds entrepreneured, making this wonderful game…
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