We’ll be applying the Microscope and Lexicon techniques a little differently, and a few people have expressed concern about not having a copy of Microscope in the first place, so I thought I’d do a brief summary of how I see the techniques being applied. Microscope Structure and Element Types Our application of Microscope is …
I think this is getting pretty close to having a framework for adapting Lexicon– and Microscope-based techniques to collaboratively develop setting information for my Seekers of Lore campaign. According to the Campaign Cosmology, the gods created the Prime Plane as a safe haven against the ravages of amorphia, raw chaos. This grand …
Andrew of Fictive Fantasies threw a lot of ideas at me regarding this project. I’m going to try to organize, distill, and respond to them here. Scheduling Set an explicit starting point and ending point (calendar-wise). Then you could do “Volume II” if it went really well, or focus on one …
I’m taking a run at the Lexicon and Microscope idea I’ve been working on. Here is the first cut of the guidelines. These guidelines are derived from Lexicon (created by Neel Krishnaswami) and Microscope (created by Ben Robbins). While both Lexicon and Microscope are presented as games, we are treating this more as a ‘shared activity’ — in part …
I realized a while ago that for my polyhedral pantheons methods to really shine, I need more subdomains, and I want them to be more interesting. I think I know how to manage that, but it leads me to some other things I need to consider. The polyhedral pantheon methods …
Back in April I floated the idea of combining Lexicon and Microscope in an exercise to develop a campaign setting. I realized not too long ago that this could be a very useful activity for creating a baseline setting for my Seekers of Lore campaign. I see it working something …
… a little rambly, I’m trying to get this down before I forget. I realized the other day that I was overthinking things with regard to discovering and restoring the gods in Seekers of Lore. My initial expectation was that clerics were cultists, followers of specific gods, since that’s how …
Jack Shear of Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque wrote a post about why he publishes as he does. I decided it worth mentioning why I follow his work as I do. I read the blog because I like the content. I grab and print the PDFs because I like …
Last fall I was running some players through my Node-Based Megadungeon. We only made it through three sessions before real life caught up to us, but the last session was memorable. Jason Paul McCartan really brought this character to life, and he recently did something nice for me, so I …
I’ve been working on the Echelon Reference Series lately, and while I might not actually publish my spells research document it does make for a good testbed for layout work. Building these documents also let me exercise the data manipulations I’ll need farther down the line. I have data sets …