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 …
Another A-Z Blog Challenge… and another successful completion. Not all my A-Z Blog Challenge attempts are successfully completed, but this one was, and it was my easiest yet. There were a few things that made this one easier than the previous attempts. First, this is a topic that interests me …
Opinions differ on whether I’m actually an old man or not, but I’ll still use this title for a draft of the Air domain. Air … I think I blundered a little with this post. I haven’t drafted a domain in a post for a couple of weeks and didn’t …
(Original working title was “Yeah, That’s Going to be Hard”… but describing the problem, articulating it, basically gave me a solution. Rubber duck debugging wins again!) So, the other day I had an idea for adapting Polyhedral Pantheons to a planar array. It seems simple enough… The last two points …
Day 24, ‘X Day’, is always a challenge because there are so few words in English starting with ‘X’. As usual, I’m hedging a little by using a word starting with ‘EX’. The deity template and the domain template both have entries related to special locations associated with a deity …
We’re almost at the end of the 2024 A-Z Blog Challenge, and it seems that for the first time I’ve managed to stay entirely on topic. I don’t think that’s happened before… it feels weird. Anyway, with all I’ve written so far this month, what else is there to do? …
When I published Polyhedral Pantheons in 2015 (… coming up on ten years ago, ow), it was based all on polyhedrons. First was the icosahedron (d20), prompted by the Rose of the Prophet series by Weis and Hickman, but extending the process to more polyhedra, and then making other adjustments …
