Primary Drive: delivers power from the Engine to the clockwork tower in the Abandoned Tower. Node-Based Megadungeon: Clockwork Hell Primary Transmission Room This is a fairly large circular room with a broad cylinder projecting from the floor to the ceiling and rotating steadily. There are passages leading radially from this …
I’ve already done the heavy lifting, I have an outline — even a detailed outline! — and the size I described ten years ago aligns with the target. All I need to do is fill it in. That shouldn’t take much, right? Right?! I mean, it’s only 108 areas, each …
About this time some years ago — Christmas 2014 — GreyKnight gave me a gift. He wrote a metapost of my blog, a ‘blog post generator‘ consisting of a set of tables describing the post. Table 1: Subject matter (d8) has, as the first entry, “Revisit old post and completely …
As might be expected, I’m starting with Polyhedral Pantheons techniques. This first pantheon used ‘guided selection’. I made sure all alignments are present, then assigned domains in ways that seemed to fit at least some of the secondary domains. For instance, ‘Travel’ (site L) got assigned because Weather and Luck …
The #dungeon23 blog challenge has been making the rounds and it intrigues me. Each day, you create a dungeon room. It doesn’t need to be fully developed, it might only be a sentence or two, but if you manage to do this even five or six days a week all …
Over the last year I’ve been reworking my data engine, and I’ve reached a point where it’s actually useful again. It’s not finished, but I am least up to the point of being able to identify object prerequisites and search for objects in text (such as feat names). One of …
From a campaign about five years ago, playing Stephen Grodzicki’s Low Fantasy Gaming… Last night we were at Talomar Keep, returning the body of one of the Queen’s Rangers we’d found. Well, most of the body, the head was missing. We were offered a place to stay for the night, …
To my mind a good sandbox campaign doesn’t just plop the PCs down and tell them to find some way to entertain themselves. A good sandbox is seeded with points of interest to give the PCs something to start with. The PCs can find their own trouble after that, but …
On the subject of edition kerfuffle (prompted by D&D one), I had a thought… D&D 5e is to D&D 3.5 as Java is to C++. Even more, C++ as I programmed it some 20-odd years ago, not C++ as it is today. Today’s C++ would be Pathfinder 1e. I shared …
The other day I stumbled on Midjourney, an AI generating images from descriptions. Out of curiosity, I decided to see what happens if I input one of the seeds from the other day. I picked the first one of the most recent ’12 seeds’ posts (Eldritch Fairy Tale): An iron …
