I’ve always liked the idea of demesne-level games, but it seems they often become exercises in counting peasant families and calculating – to the coin – tax revenue and expenditure. Many benefit from the use of spreadsheets. Spreadsheets and other tools can have their place in tabletop gaming. They’re probably …
AGE of Rediscovery is a ‘points of light’ setting. This post describes the kingdom of Bandisal, the supposed center of a point of light and nominal homeland of the PCs. Kingdom of Bandisal Role Theme: settled lands, fairly regulated and peaceful, where ‘normal people’ live. Goals: grow and prosper for …
Long ago, the gods walked this world. Then something happened, and the gods left and the world changed and much was lost. Gods… knowledge… even places and entire races were lost. In the time since this upheaval, though, some of the things thought destroyed were actually found. We have relearned some of …
The greater gods created the seed of Paradise. The lesser gods came out of the waves of amorphia and joined their wills to those of the greater gods to make Paradise greater. Where did the greater gods come from, though? Amorphic waves only created lesser gods and the greater gods …
When the gods created Paradise, it was purely through their instinct and will to survive. As much as it did shelter them from the worst ravages of amorphia, it was not perfect. It kept amorphia away from the gods, mostly, but was itself within amorphia. It required constant effort from …
Amorphia is the beginning and the end of everything. An unstoppable power of creation, transformation, and destruction, it cannot be stopped. There are some who, while they cannot stop it, can at least give it pause. These are the gods. The elder gods are immune to it. They came into …
I’ve recently been reading the Fantasy AGE system (Fantasy AGE Basic Rulebook, Fantasy AGE Companion, and Fantasy AGE Bestiary), and while I don’t know it well enough to say I love it, I definitely like what I see so far. Character Creation Character creation, once you get past the organization of the …
ANYWAY, over time my document workflow has changed a few times. Here’s the latest iteration, for those who wish a look into the mind of someone not quite right (and so I have a copy to remind myself how I’m doing this). Not three weeks after I wrote that, I …
It astonishes me sometimes how long I’ve been working on Echelon, and even just on the Echelon Reference Series (I spent a year working toward the first release in September 2014). The Echelon Reference Series has been a five-year project just gathering information for the game I’m actually working toward. …
As usual, here is my ‘Z-A Index’ roundup of my blog challenge. I feel like I’ve done better in previous years. This time around I was late many of the days, and I did not actually reach the target (by subject completion, not word count) I was aiming for. The …