Posting challenges, usually time bound or on a particular topic or theme.
Another topic I’ve overlooked is ‘small gods’: semi-divine entities that can be focus of faith at local levels. In most roleplaying games, it seems deities are omnipresent, if not omniscient and omnipotent. It would suck to play an adventuring cleric who can’t do their thing because they’re too far from …
When I first started working on Just the Rules, I had thought to just make a minimalist version of Pathfinder. Don’t include all the game entities, just the rules around them, much like the D&D 3.x Rules Compendium. While doing, so, though, I kept getting sidetracked into alternate rules sets. …
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done anything with my Seekers of Lore campaign. I want to fix that. It even aligns with this year’s theme of ‘Year of the Lost’. The entire campaign is based around looking for things lost in the distant past. Or not so distant. …
I would have sworn I’d posted this before. Ah well. Random generators are how I compensate for limited imagination. … okay, turns out I did post about this before. I just couldn’t find the right search terms and missed it when I scanned posts for the last year. Ah well, …
I was thinking about writing ‘Anatomy of a Faction’ today, outlining the elements of a faction. Working through the list, I realized it’s pretty close to my Entity Template, so I figured I’d try that first. Below, I largely treat ‘faction’ and ‘organization’ interchangeably. One can say that by definition …
I thought about trying to work up a sleestak joke, but it’s been a long day. I’ve started many series on this blog. Many have been left stagnant as my attention was drawn elsewhere (either on the blog, or in my life outside elf games). This year, I’m going to …
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 …
