Over the last year I’ve been reworking my data engine, and I’ve reached a point where it’s actually useful again. It’s not finished, but I am least up to the point of being able to identify object prerequisites and search for objects in text (such as feat names). One of …
Uniquely identifying objects is one of the more vexing activities in building the Echelon Reference Series. It is good to have a human-readable ID (it’s a great kindness to the developer to be able to see that yes, a parsed link looks like it does refer to the correct item, …
Any time you build a nontrivial data model, you have to expect the original assumptions will be tested, and found wanting. You’re not going to get it right the first time. In fact, I’ve read design books — data modeling and software design — that advise the reader to be …
The 2017 GM’s Day Sale is almost over, but you still have a couple of days if you want to pick up any Echelon Game Design products at a 30% discount. (They’re also available at Paizo and the Open Gaming Store, both of which give me a better cut, but …
News release? New releases? Whatever. My books, let me sell you them. It is to my immense satisfaction that I announce that I have completed, for now, the Echelon Reference Series Spell Book line. They are not yet all published, but all have been compiled and laid out. Most are already available …
In the last couple of posts it’s pretty clear I was wearing my geek hat. Time to lower the flaps and tie the strings under my chin, because this is going to get busy. Taxonomy Straight from dictionary.com: taxonomy [tak-son–uh-mee] noun, plural taxonomies the science or technique of classification a classification …
In my previous post I wrote about the evolution of the Echelon Reference Series. So far there have been four stages: Raw copy and paste aggregation. Ultimately not useful to me because it threw away so much information without gaining me much. Aggregating by source document, marking up in Word …
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 …
Recent releases, as of December 2015. Echelon Explorations: Polyhedral Pantheons @d20pfsrd @DriveThruRPG @Paizo The gods create the world… and you create the gods. Whether you need only a small pantheon with a few deities, or a larger pantheon with dozens of deities, Polyhedral Pantheons gives you tools to make pantheon creation …
My daughter Naomi is eligible to compete as a judoka in both the BC Winter Games and the Canadian Open National tournament this year. To make the team, though, there are training requirements. She is expected to take part in a certain number of tournament leading up to these events, …
