After the rotten news about The Doom that Came to Atlantic City late last week (namely that it was not going to happen, and that the project owner was going to work really hard to get us refunded), a lot of people were pretty sad, angry, and otherwise not happy. Cryptozoic Entertainment just …
Tentative final cover, at least. Now has a proper logo. Some minor placement changes (just shifting things a bit). Small changes to the strip at the top (a little wider, added ‘stitching’). The differences aren’t individually very big, but I think they really touch things up. Image scaled down so …
A while ago I mentioned a “Pathfinder Big Book” project I was working on. I am still working on Echelon, and my research documents are continuing to grow. I decided it’s time to take the plunge and start packaging them as the Echelon Reference Series. After talking with a few …
I’m building a sandbox for my Seekers of Lore campaign, and decided it might be worth indexing the articles now rather than later, including my anticipated future posts. Posts So Far Finding the Map: I use Hexographer to generate random maps with three different settings (Default Terrain, Many Islands, Fewer …
I’ve chosen an initial map, which is still subject to adjustment, but for now I’m charging on. Time to place major landmarks and sites, even if I don’t know much about them yet. I’ll be leaning on Kevin Crawford’s An Echo, Resounding: A Sourcebook for Lordship and War for parts of this. …
I think I’ve been putting this off long enough. Time to start building the sandbox for my Seekers of Lore campaign. Normally when I plan a campaign I’ll start with the major movers and shakers, then work from there. This time I think I’ll start a little differently, with the map …
Matt Jackson (of lapsus calumni) asked on Google+ about the minimum required character traits for a light-weight RPG. Light enough that it doesn’t have classes. Taking some of the ideas there, I think the following might be workable. First, reduce things to their very basics and abstract them. What do …
I recently rehosted all my sites (KJD-IMC, Echelond20, kjdavies.org, plus a couple more that aren’t yet public) and was mostly happy… except that I’ve had a few incidents where the new virtual host has locked up. I think I tracked it down to my Apache configuration, the httpd daemon was …
When building a scenario or other campaign entity, I like to graphs to show in an abstract way how various things link to each other. Sometimes I like to build purely organically, constructing these graphs as I think of the entities, but lately I’ve been taking a page from the …
I’ve put it off long enough, today I rehosted all my sites. Please feel free to poke around and see if anything fails to work. I’m hoping it’s all cool, but if you find any problems send me a message via the contact form or on Google+, thanks. (Edit: well, …