Things I’ve worked on, or that I’m working on, intended for publication.
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 …
A while ago I showed how I’d rewrite evasion, and decided to extend that to other class features. Class features like this are generally pretty straightforward, so this should be a good, easy thing to work on. “Weapon and Armor Proficiencies” is in all classes in some form, even if …
Random table roller is getting weirdly powerful, and I’m loving that. With the recent changes I now have the ability to manipulate table entries. Hmm… I haven’t touched on modifying an entry, or inserting in arbitrary locations. Maybe later. Anyway, what I do now have is the ability to treat …
My last post gives a d86 table of actors and their actions. I had to exclude many words because they were for roles that do not have ‘actions’. How does one ‘king’? Can one be said to be ‘kinging’? ‘Kinging’ doesn’t even pass spell check! Of course, in English you …
Most name generators I’ve found connect syllables in ways that hopefully make sense, or are at least pronounceable. Some are thematic, based on names from certain cultures. Others lean on pulp naming conventions, as Tome of Adventure Design does. These serve their purpose, in that they give me labels for …
I’ve put a lot of time into making pantheons. The process is straightforward but a full pantheon is time-consuming. Small gods should be easy enough to create at need. Their limited power and expected scope means I want them to be easy to write. Normally I’d expect to have a …
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. …
Yesterday I talked about tables I aim to create for Divine Trappings. I found I’d picked up the easy one, but there are quite a few more elements to consider. Elements not included yesterday… These elements are in several ways more complex than yesterday’s. I’m going to give this some …
I wish I could say this is a list of really good tables. It’s actually a list of the tables yet to be created. Let’s have a quick look. The other day I posted links to the Divine Trappings tables created so far. These are mostly tables that are outside …
Living Document: Design Notes Paths Not Taken: Standards and Style outlines differences between how I will write and how source material has been written. In this post, I offer an example and some explanation. The evasion class feature shows much of what I’m trying to simplify. In the Pathfinder Core …
