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, …
Picked the title when I thought each domain would be a page or two, turns out I got two domains on a single page. Ah well, keeping the title as it is. Over the last couple of days I’ve posted a deity template and a domain template. Before I go …
Okay, yes, it’s a ‘domain aspect template’, but I used ‘D’ yesterday and today is for ‘E’, so ‘elements’ it is. Three years ago I drafted a domain template the first time, but what’s changed now that I’ve revisited my deity template? Let’s see… starting from the top, and understanding …
Time to look at an easy one: the template for describing a deity. This was actually one of my first topics last time I worked on Divine Trappings. I wonder what’s changed. Last time, I started with my Entity Template, and that’s a pretty good thing to start with. This …
Yesterday, I put up a list of all the posts from the 2021 A-Z Blog Challenge, for those interested in what came before. For those who want something a little simpler and quicker, here’s a summary. What I Think First, where I’m coming from, to explain why I’m doing this. …
Revisiting a topic I’ve written about previously gives me an opportunity to reread older posts. In this case, I’ve written a fair bit of material that’s worth revisiting. The posts from the 2021 A-Z blog challenge show a lot of my thinking, a fair bit of how I thought things …
In the 2021 A-Z Blog Challenge I took a run at Divine Trappings. Something of a follow up to Polyhedral Pantheons, Divine Trappings are descriptive elements that might be applied to a deity (and their associated religions) based on the domains assigned to that deity. I didn’t quite finish the …
My last post explored a few of my use cases and how they might work… and ended with a situation that puzzled me: how do I resolve the ‘original file name’ of a document file, when I have merged multiple copies of the same document (and file) from different sources? …
A recent post included some quick validation of a tentative design… and failed it! I argue this is a successful validation exercise: if the ‘first-best results’ prove a design or implementation is correct, ‘second-best results’ find a problem before it matters. Second-best results are just fine by me, they me …
