Things I’ve worked on, or that I’m working on, intended for publication.
After I finish releasing the RAF versions of the Echelon Reference Series, I’ll be rebuilding my workflow for data capture. It will be simpler and more abstract, and more powerful. I thought it might be interesting to show how this has evolved. Origin of the ERS The ERS started as a …
My last post refined the generation of random gems, introducing variance to the size and quality of the stones. One of the first comments I got regarding the post suggested ‘uncut’ as one of the low-quality entries. I hadn’t previously considered gem cutting because I was focusing on the end result, …
Creighton Broadhurst of Raging Swan Press (I like Raging Swan products) wrote a post last week about Gygax On… Treasure, speaking mostly of how most treasures are likely to consist of a collection of varied but valuable items, rather than a simple chest full of coin or pouch of gems. Coins and gems …
One of the hazards of being a data geek, and good at it, is that over time you become better at it. You find better ways to do things. Also, the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game has become progressively more complex, both from player perspective (hence the Echelon Reference Series) and particularly from a …
‘X Day’ is always difficult in the A-Z Challenge. So few words actually start with ‘X’. I was going to write about how I was going to add esoteric draconic bloodlines to Draconic Bloodlines, since I deliberately excluded them when I released the book. I even started drafting that post, but when …
A couple years ago, or just slightly more, I wrote about my workflow for extracting game information captured in Word. It’s kind of long: Once I’ve got the information encoded I can do other transformations to get my actual goal products: This has proven fairly effective over the last few …
I don’t often post much Echelon-related material here any more (mostly it’s at EchelonRPG.com), but this particular post fits the skill model I had in mind before I moved over there. Also, it gives me a ‘U Day’ post for this year’s A-Z Blog Challenge. I am not proud. I’ve only …
The first book of my Echelon Expansions line, Draconic Bloodlines, is now available at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, the Open Gaming Store, and at Paizo. Great-grandma was seduced by a dragon,When she became the dragon’s reeve.You might think there’s no such thing as dragons,But as for me and my dad, we believe. — The Wyrmish …
When the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game was released it included many changes. One that I quite liked was changing the sorcerer class by adding ‘bloodlines’. Each bloodline gave knowledge of one spell per spell level, some bonus feats, and bloodline abilities gained at 1st, 3rd, 9th, 15th, and 20th level. The Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game …
I’ll be writing up some sample planes for Planar Trappings, to show how it fits together. (In draft) I’m expanding the list of traits so it includes the core domains (which include alignments and elements, as well as major societal abstractions). This both expanded the sorts of traits available (which …