Things I’ve worked on, or that I’m working on, intended for publication.
“Show, don’t tell” is one of the most commonly-known bits of writing advice, for a reason. There is little point to things known only to the author (or in my case, world builder or game master). If I create something only I ever see, it’s little more than an exercise …
Polyhedral Pantheons and Divine Trappings both depend on having a broad selection of domains. That need seems to be met pretty handily. Paizo Domains, Third-Party Domains, and Druid Domains I see three distinct sets of domains (plus a fourth that exists only on this blog, that I’ll be writing more …
By no small coincidence, I’ll be leaning on Mongoose Publishing’s Classic Play: Book of Immortals while developing Divine Trappings. The entire book is about how to play aspiring deities, and there’s a fair bit of material I’ll be able to repurpose. In particular, I’ll be looking to covenants for guidance …
One of the more visited topics on my site has to do with Polyhedral Pantheons, a book I wrote a few years ago that provides a simple process for building a pantheon… at least as far as the “assign domains, alignments, and favored weapons to deities” stage. Divine Trappings is …
In Anatomy of a God I wrote of the elements that I expect to include when describing a deity, and that I expect to use domains to gather the bases of these elements. This post expands on that idea, and describes the information I expect to include in a domain …
What makes up a deity? Leaving aside the philosophical elements, we can start pretty simply. In fact, we could get by with as little as a name (so we can identify which is which), an alignment (so we have some idea of what team they’re on and what their personality …
Once again I’m taking a run at the A-Z Blog Challenge. This time, I’m using it as impetus to write a book I’ve wanted to have for years. Deities in Dungeons & Dragons are largely defined, mechanically, by the domains they grant their clerics. When designing game entities such as …
When last I looked at my Just the Rules series (i.e. April last year, almost nine months ago), I’d reached a point where I had the general shape of what I wanted, without being able to fill it in. I know what I want the level progression to look like. …
Normally when I do the A-Z Blog Challenge, I wrap up with a ‘Z-A Index’ of the posts that month. I’m tired, and it’s an easy title and basically mechanical post. This year I could have used the post title ‘Zounds! Almost 40,000 Words!’ In fact, that was the working …
Yesterday I examined existing drawbacks in Ultimate Spheres of Power, and one of them really stood out to me. Twenty-four of the twenty-five drawbacks I examined could be modeled in Hero System as Limitations. Almost all would be considered -1/2 Limitations and some were worth twice as much (and would …
