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 …
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 …
Recent releases, as of December 2015. Echelon Reference Series: Polyhedral Pantheons Echelon Explorations: Polyhedral Pantheons 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 …
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, …
Until now, I have been releasing the Echelon Reference Series books as and when each is complete. I am thinking of changing that. I’m a programmer by trade, and staged releases are a common thing in my world. First make it go, then make it go good, then make it gold. …
Currently-available Echelon Game Design products. Polyhedral Pantheons Echelon Explorations: Polyhedral Pantheons 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 easy. This …
It’s taken somewhat longer than I expected, but Echelon Reference Series: Barbarians is now live at DriveThruRPG. In two versions, in fact. Echelon Reference Series: Barbarians (PRD-only) at DriveThruRPG, contains only material from the PRD, with no content from third-party publishers. Echelon Reference Series: Barbarians (3pp+PRD) at DriveThruRPG, contains material from …
Still working on the Echelon Reference Series, and I’m rebuilding my prerequisite parsing and linking system. I didn’t think to capture metrics before I started, but I’m already a little over 90% ‘pretty definitive matches’ — that is, where I can match a prerequisite string to a specific game entity …
I haven’t posted since the A-Z Challenge back in April. It was partly burnout, and largely because completing the challenge severely cut into my work on the Echelon Reference Series. I’m still catching up on that, and shaping up to have my first release in the next few weeks. I had a …
Some time ago I switched the development of the Echelon roleplaying game from Dungeons & Dragons 3.x to Pathfinder. I figured there was more material more readily accessible. I was right about that. In fact, it turns out that individual topics could not fit entirely in my brain — there …