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 …
