In my latest post I said “I can automate this”. There were two last pieces I needed before I can automate diagram conversion. It turns out these both are solved more easily than I expected. Spanning Matrix Rows The normal layout behavior of a matrix node in TikZ is pretty …
DOT, the way I use it, lays out diagrams in a matrix. Before I automate converting these to TikZ matrices, I want to draw some by hand. Again, Angelic Blood is a good candidate to work from. Small enough to be manageable, large and complex enough to be interesting. Angelic …
As part of developing the Echelon Reference Series, I make heavy use of GraphViz. GraphViz includes several layout engines, but the key one here is called ‘DOT’. DOT takes a file with a simple declarative syntax of nodes and edges, and lays them out as a graph. You can specify …
A little over three weeks ago I announced this year’s theme (“Small Gods”). Last week on April 1 I announced the starting lineup of small gods I was going to write about. At this point it looks like an April Fools joke, but it wasn’t mine, on purpose. I think …
This might derail my original plan (“Small Gods”) for the 2025 A-Z Blog Challenge, but I think it’ll be worth it. For me, at least. Recently I’ve been reading a couple of books about LaTeX, my publishing tool of choice. I’ve worked with LaTeX quite some time, and I’ve cobbled …
Welcome to my 2025 A-Z Blog Challenge! This year, my theme is ‘Small Gods’. Gods are often depicted as immortal, immensely powerful beings. They often epitomize elements and aspects of mortality, while not themselves being mortal. Even if not omnipotent — how can they be, when they can defeat each …
I’m getting a little ahead of myself, but it’s timely for other reasons. I have a use for this table right soonish. When I wrote Polyhedral Pantheons, I wanted to avoid associating any domain with either gender. I came up with a scheme to randomize the gender selection. I could …
It is A-Z Blog Challenge time again! This year I’m going back to an older topics, part of my Year of the Lost: Small Gods. Small gods are semi-divine entities that can be focus of faith at local levels. In most roleplaying games, it seems deities are omnipresent, if not …
Not rethinking what I’m doing, so much as how I’m doing it. When I started on rewriting, I picked evasion, and rewriting evasion was easy. Then I tried rewriting weapon and armor proficiencies, and it’s more involved than I expected. Evasion was simple because it is narrow scope and has …
A while ago I showed how I’d rewrite evasion, and decided to extend that to other class features. Class features like this are generally pretty straightforward, so this should be a good, easy thing to work on. “Weapon and Armor Proficiencies” is in all classes in some form, even if …
