Yesterday I decided it’s finally time to dive into Seventh Sanctum data files. They are a little more complicated than I expected, but that’s okay. As I dig further, I see ideas that never occurred to me in my own random generators. This feels very much like an evolved system …
Seventh Sanctum is one of my favorite imagination helpers. The creator, Steven Savage, opened up his data files and talks about his plans for Seventh Sanctum. Having access to this data set looks like it’ll be useful to me. I see tables for names (my bane), magic (lots of things), …
When I first started working on Just the Rules, I had thought to just make a minimalist version of Pathfinder. Don’t include all the game entities, just the rules around them, much like the D&D 3.x Rules Compendium. While doing, so, though, I kept getting sidetracked into alternate rules sets. …
Yesterday I talked about tables I aim to create for Divine Trappings. I found I’d picked up the easy one, but there are quite a few more elements to consider. Elements not included yesterday… These elements are in several ways more complex than yesterday’s. I’m going to give this some …
I wish I could say this is a list of really good tables. It’s actually a list of the tables yet to be created. Let’s have a quick look. The other day I posted links to the Divine Trappings tables created so far. These are mostly tables that are outside …
Yesterday I wrote about using Hero System for my Seekers of Lore campaign. Today I explore what that would look like. Recognize that Hero System lets you build almost anything you can imagine. This is a useful feature of the game! This will not be fully available to players in …
I’d always assumed I’d run Seekers of Lore under some form of D&D or AGE System. D&D has been my system of choice for decades, and AGE scratches the same itch, better. Turns out they both struggle in some ways. A major aspect of Seekers of Lore is that ‘new …
Living Document: Design Notes Paths Not Taken: Standards and Style outlines differences between how I will write and how source material has been written. In this post, I offer an example and some explanation. The evasion class feature shows much of what I’m trying to simplify. In the Pathfinder Core …
Living Document: Design Notes One of my major goals with Paths Not Taken is to simplify the writing. Pathfinder 1e inherited a great deal of awkward wording from the (Revised) System Reference Document. I’d like to make it easier. In no particular order, and I expect this list to grow, here …
Another project — my 2021 NaGaDeMon attempt, ‘Paths Not Taken’ — I want to get back to. There are many things I like about Pathfinder 2e. One of the big things I loved about Pathfinder 1e, though, is how close it was to D&D 3.x — at one time, my …
