Posting challenges, usually time bound or on a particular topic or theme.
Long ago, GreyKnight wrote The Post To End It, a bit of fun about what goes into my writing a blog post here. He almost absolutely nails it. ‘Paragraphs appearing’ being 5d20 is a bit of an exaggeration, maybe, but the rest of it is spot on. The last table …
A (probably) short one today. I’ve done some tables used for the Artifacts field, I’m likely to do something about entity names, but another group comes to me. Places. I feel like I want a way to randomly generator geography. I didn’t foresee the need for ‘place names’, but I’m …
This is going to be more of a ‘strategic’ post, in that I’m going to describe how I expect to solve the problem, rather than actually show my solution. The simple reason for it: it’s going to be quite a bit of work, because there is little support for the …
Yet again, “what I planned to write” and “what I wrote” don’t quite match. They’re related, of course. But they’re not the same. I’d expected to write about domain-specific word choices (i.e. more random tables). I started to work up some examples, and realized they might take up a fair …
There are so few words relevant to my purpose that start with ‘Q’, I wasn’t sure what I was going to talk about when I got here, but thankfully those random tables came along at a good time for me! Some years ago, I wrote Gaining Favor of Patrons. This …
I might barely be involved when we picked colors to paint our house, but by damn I can do it here! … that I have a habit of picking colors randomly here might be why I was not so involved in picking house colors. Ah well, random tables for colors …
My first cut at naming artifacts was pretty okay, but a little unsatisfying. I had a decent start, but I really needed a more varied set of objects to work with. So, here I have more. I cobbled together a much richer collection of ‘object tables’ that I can use …
A few days ago I wrote Making Names for Myself (I actually have a buffer this month!) and put up a hundred artifact names. They were pretty okay, I think, but it felt like the naming could be tighter. At the same time, I drafted a (very cheap) post for …
… I’ll probably do another post for ‘N’ day, because this one’s so cheap after putting up a hundred artifact names. Well, it’s a little more work than simply running the name generator on its own and putting that output up. I had to, like, read the artifact names and …
“Artifacts” is one of the more challenging domain template fields for me to fill in. I’m terrible at names, but have found tools to help. In fact, I’ve kitbashed a few of them together, to give me a selection to work with. I started with this master table: (Syntax is …
