Long ago, when G+ was still a thing, I met and befriended a mad Glaswegian named Jason Paul McCartan. The Badger. The years since have been busy. We’ve had medical events. There have been life changes, planned and unplanned. Job and work changes. Game design and publishing setbacks and progress. …
Most of the work done on my XML Workflow has focused on process content from Word files via XML. Word is probably the most useful format by volume, because of the amount of text in varying structure. However, it’s not the only format that is of use to me. Excel …
I have been remiss. When I signed up last year to host this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, I had grand thoughts of working on Planar Trappings. My vacation was booked for October, so I figured I’d have lots of time. Instead, my brain was eaten by finally solving some problems …
My last post identified several traits I will define trappings for: accord, order, magic, and so on. Each trait can have more than one trapping. I was about to start describing trappings for various traits, then realized… … before I go into what individual trappings look like, it’s probably a …
Almost as much as pantheon design, I’ve liked exploring other planes. The first edition Manual of the Planes was one of the most fascinating books of that era to me. It showed such alien worlds. There were many other campaign setting books/box sets, but they were relatively normal. At least, …
Fiction and RPG settings within various genres often share tropes… but which tropes each setting uses varies. Fantasy settings often include aspects reminiscent of medieval Europe… but sometimes other eras or regions. A single setting can include areas with different historical or mythological influences. Some of these influences are easily …
It’s been a while — by the look of it, more than six years! — since the RPG Blog Carnival has visited In My Campaign… but it comes again! Starting October 1, let’s explore other worlds. I’ve got a firm idea about what I’m writing about, but I’m not going …
My longest (six months!) A-Z Challenge ever. I got through it, though. This one was very strange. I’d started with a planned theme, then immediately jumped the tracks and did something else. I’ve done flow of consciousness for the challenge, and I’ve done the challenge where I knew where I …
Almost all the code discussion under ‘XML Workflow’ are about XSLT, the XML transformations. LaTeX is a very important transformation step, the last one before going to PDF. Most of this code was written about ten years ago, with only small changes made over time. I know much more about …
As always, I cheat a little on ‘X’ day. Yes, six months in, but I’m still working on the A-Z Challenge. Applying Styles to Document Elements Splitting taxonomy and presentation of domain objects was a really good idea. The style details are stored in a file much like the taxonomy …
