My first cut at naming artifacts was pretty okay, but a little unsatisfying. I had a decent start, but I really needed a more varied set of objects to work with. So, here I have more. I cobbled together a much richer collection of ‘object tables’ that I can use …
A few days ago I wrote Making Names for Myself (I actually have a buffer this month!) and put up a hundred artifact names. They were pretty okay, I think, but it felt like the naming could be tighter. At the same time, I drafted a (very cheap) post for …
… I’ll probably do another post for ‘N’ day, because this one’s so cheap after putting up a hundred artifact names. Well, it’s a little more work than simply running the name generator on its own and putting that output up. I had to, like, read the artifact names and …
“Artifacts” is one of the more challenging domain template fields for me to fill in. I’m terrible at names, but have found tools to help. In fact, I’ve kitbashed a few of them together, to give me a selection to work with. I started with this master table: (Syntax is …
It seems like every time I write about deities, I end up drafting a new pantheon. This might be a habit or a fixation. And I’m okay with it. This time I’m going to do it so I’ve got some names to attach to things. I find I can fill …
Just a couple tonight. Nobility is a bit of a challenge because ‘noble characteristics’ vary by culture. Knowledge is a much simpler. The hallmarks of knowledge tends to be much less culturally specific. Nobility Deities with the Nobility domain tend to epitomize the culture that venerates them. Thus, while there …
A few days ago I tried to draft domain aspects for alignment domains, and I wasn’t satisfied with what I came up with. I’m nothing if not tenacious, so here I am. … and I’m still not completely satisfied, but I feel a lot better about what I have today …
Part of my thesis behind this work is that a deity’s characteristics can be shaped by, if not defined by, the deity’s domains. How is this actually done, though? It’s fairly simple overall. I’ve found when applying Polyhedral Pantheons I start to get a sense of the deity’s nature from …
Nine years ago tonight (I’m trying to maintain a couple days’ buffer at least, but I’m writing this the night before it’s supposed to go up) I wrote Hilljack Deities of the Goblin Pantheon, as part of my work on Polyhedral Pantheons. I figure they’ll be a good testbed for …
In fact, it looks like Good, Evil, Chaos, and Law domains are all hard to define. Looks like I’ll need to mulligan this one. I tried drafting aspects for the alignment domains, and have concluded they will probably be the most difficult because they are so abstract. For most domains, …
