I realized today that clerics may have to work differently in Seekers of Lore than I was expecting. This is something of an exploratory article, I don’t know what the conclusion will be. First Thoughts Part of the premise of Seekers of Lore is that experience points are gained by discovering and recovering that which [...]
Category Archives: Seekers of Lore
Apr 19, 2013
Religion in Seekers of Lore
Apr 16, 2013
Old Schools: Swords & Wizardry
Swords & Wizardry is undoubtedly one of the Old School games, one of the many legs of the OSR. But I’m not going to talk about that, quite. Even though it’s Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day, I’m going to talk about something I think might be missing. I notice that there is no mention of [...]
Rambly rambly time. I am just starting to explore the idea of combining Ben Robbin’s game Microscope with Neel Krishnaswami. I am not aiming for a particular target or result beyond seeing if they can work together, so I will be (was, actually; I wrote this sentence after everything below it) writing more or less [...]
Apr 11, 2013
Kingdom Example: Random Kingdom
I’ve been speaking about demographics lately, and how I think I might be able to get rid of detailed demographic calculations (which pleases me). Yesterday in Imperial Scale to Manorial Scale in Mapping and Rulership I talked about the abstractions that may allow this to be so, including the rules for placing settlements of maximum [...]
Apr 11, 2013
Just Guess: Demographics in Seekers of Lore
Over the last few days I’ve been doing a lot of calculations regarding population and demographics in medieval times, in part because I’m working on rules for Demesne-Level Play. These calculations are mostly to lay groundwork for the rules I’m working on, to ensure they produce credible results. I’m certainly not looking for realistic results, [...]
A few days ago I talked about Fractal Game Design and mentioned how it relates to Demesne-Level play. Yesterday I dug into Hex Population Density. Today I’m going to try to bring these things together. Definitions I am using a very simple model for the relationships between demesnes. Real feudalism is horribly complex and hard to [...]
Apr 7, 2013
Exploration, Seeing What There Is To See
I’ve written this post two or three times now in my head, each time with a different emphasis. Hopefully I’ve chosen a good one. And I’ve just decided to bail on everything I’d written to start over, because I was digging into the differences between sandbox flavors (hex crawl versus node/point/path crawl… which I talked [...]
Apr 4, 2013
Demense-Level Gaming Resources
The primary option for gaining experience points in Seekers of Lore is to discover and recover that which was lost. Knowledge in general and special items are prime candidates for this activity, and easily portable. Not so portable, but may easily be as valuable or more in the long run is to explore and successfully [...]
Apr 3, 2013
Cartography Styles in Seekers of Lore
There are many ways to present campaign maps. Depending on the purpose, different map styles can be more appropriate than others. Seekers of Lore is going to be very much a sandbox campaign, with a great deal of exploration. There are two primary map styles I am considering. Artistic Maps As a rule, I quite [...]
Apr 2, 2013
Books and Other Sources of Knowledge
I’ve recently touched on some ideas about spell books as rewards in Seekers of Lore, but didn’t explore the topic thoroughly. First, there are other sources of knowledge. Books are perhaps one of the most convenient overall ever — generally portable, fairly durable, human-readable, and with decent data density for the technology level. There are [...]
