The few days ago I saw a request on MeWe for Good blogs for Adventure Seed ideas? I’m looking for one or two short sentence prompts to build on. The more grim, dark and seedy the better. Betrayals. Murders. Narcotics. Abductions. Etc. Jeremy Hart I figured that since I recently …
I’ve been on something of a hiatus for the last little while. I work in the social sector — the part of the provincial government that provides more or less direct support to vulnerable citizens — and the last couple years put unprecedented demand on us. It’s been tiring. In …
Ten posts complete… I think this is the shorted A-Z Blog Challenge failure I’ve had. I started to write ‘earliest’, but it took almost two weeks for me to admit it to myself. We’ve had some shakeups at work this month. These don’t actually directly add to my workload (in …
Title chosen a little facetiously, because I was having trouble coming up with a relevant title starting with ‘J’… … and yet not totally so, because I’ve spent more than a week on laying groundwork without actually describing any of the deities. Time to knock that off and get to …
For many years I’ve wanted a system to formalize developing relationships with organizations or other entities. I don’t want to apply it to everything — the number of connections can become immense — but where a relationship becomes significant enough to track, I want a way to formalize it. Most …
No matter how much detail a game entity such as a character, place, or even a deity has… it will only get interesting when it connects to other things. When it comes to deities, a deity standing alone is unlikely to be of any real interest. The connections between deities, …
Many years ago, GreyKnight created the “Keith Davies Blog Post Generator“, mostly to poke good-natured fun at me, but I admit I laughed… and I sometimes feel the urge to validate that post. The first table is ‘Subject Matter’, and two of the entries are ‘Revisit an old post and …
The first two factions I created in this pantheon had no interactions at all, as far as domain assignments are concerned. I added four more factions and started to see some interactions, including some potentially unreliable or even compromised faction members. One thing I didn’t check, though, was the distribution …
In my first run at building factions in this pantheon I ended up with a strongly polarized division. The two factions really had no direct interactions. They could well interact because they’re in the same pantheon, but the members of the factions have no overlapping portfolios. In this post I’ll …
I had planned to refine the factions I’d devised yesterday, but I ran into a complication. Namely, by focusing the factions on opposite sides of the polyhedron, I ensured there would be no real interaction between them. I even mentioned how polarized the pantheon was… but that’s not quite what …
