Things I’ve worked on, or that I’m working on, intended for publication.
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 …
Sometimes, “what it is” can be much more complicated that “how to work with it”. My publishing workflow has seven different systems (including a ‘nosys’) with thirteen different domains (collections of content with that system). The pf1 set is the only one I’ve published, the rest have been captured for …
No real change to the workflow, but in rebuilding my Makefile construction I found I’d missed a step, and misrepresented a couple of relationships.
Some years ago, while working on the Echelon Reference Series, I reached a point where individual titles would take months to put together (the diagrams were horribly time-intensive). I shifted direction and decided to release the ‘Rough and Fast’ (RAF) versions of the titles, without the diagrams and all the …
Yesterday I explored some unexpected things in my prerequisite diagrams code (short answer: I did not expect what I should have, the code was working as designed). As part of that I came up with a few things to try, to see if they could resolve the oddities. Examining Updated …
Even when there is no actual narrative, a picture can make something clear that might have been easily overlooked. Yesterday’s build showed me I’d made at least one unfortunate assumption that could lead to incorrect search results. After fixing this I examined some diagrams I knew would be affected, and …
Okay, okay, it’s a little rough yet, but I can see this can work. There are a few things I’d want to add (such as the option of specifying exclusions, bits of a diagram to not include, but it looks like much of my headache is going away. These diagrams …
