Things I’ve worked on, or that I’m working on, intended for publication.
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 …
As is common, common enough that GreyKnight wrote a post about it, I’m revisiting an earlier post. What are the odds this one will be different? (Hint: pretty good) I’m pretty happy with my descriptions of manifestation building block grades, but they’re not quite there. Happily, I know people I …
One of the most exciting books from the AD&D era, for me, was Manual of the Planes. It expanded wonderfully on the two pages of information in the… Player’s Handbook? Okay, that part never made sense to me. Anyway! Manual of the Planes gave us information about other places that …
While developing Divine Trappings, I’ve created way more random tables that I imagined I would. I expected to have random tables in the domain descriptions. I didn’t expect to come up with so many generic random tables… but they all look useful. Domain Field Tables Still working on it, but …
Truly, I can’t imagine this would be even a mild surprise to anyone that I’m a nerd at times. But this goes a little beyond the norm, even for me. I just spent that last few hours drafting — rough cut, first draft — documentation of my XML Workflow. Don’t …
… sure, I’ll call it ‘two days’. I was going to say it was actually last night, but since the ‘October 2’ on the previous post was very early in the morning (AKA ‘quite late October 1’) I’ll call it two days. Makefile refactoring is complete. 500 lines of Perl …
