Yet more new tricks! A few days ago I added Seventh Sanctum functions to append to or replace tables. Today I added some other functions. To check the latter point, I had these two tests (Minor implementation wart: you can’t add to a table that isn’t already known. Hence I …
I recently uploaded a Rough And Fast version of the Deck of Ages PDF. I also put up the data behind the deck. Turns out I overthought things… by quite a bit. I described a new, larger set of traits and some basic guidelines for applying them. There are now …
The Deck of Ages is inspired by Starfinder’s Deck of Many Worlds, but is not the Deck of Many Worlds. Traits define aspects of the age. I outlined the nine traits I’m using, to start, and as expected that’s changing. Traits are key elements that describe an age. These are …
Well, I didn’t get all the Seventh Sanctum features implemented last night… but I got most of them. Masking Entries Seventh Sanctum vocabulary files give each dictionary entry a bit mask. A selection mask is used to identify which dictionary elements are eligible, then an entry chosen. For my implementation, …
Yesterday I drafted content for the Deck of Ages, today I’ve got the first draft. There’s a fair bit of work before this is ready for prime time. The first two points need more work and will take time. The third point, I have made a Rough And Fast version, …
I had a different post planned for tonight. Let me just say ‘I hate mail merge’ and leave it at that for tonight. Since that plan didn’t come through, I figured I might as well post the data I was trying to merge. 2025-02-18 Replaced the full tables with excerpts. …
In a recent post I documented my random table roller, prompted by my exploration of Seventh Sanctum files. As part of that exploration, I found several features I’d never considered. While I did not think of those features myself, I’m not above stealing interesting ideas. Masking Entries Seventh Sanctum vocabulary …
Ben Robbins’s Microscope is one of the major inspirations for Making History. I really like the structure and process, and I’ve added another element: ages. Between ages, the world changes. In Microscope terms, each age has a different palette. That is, different things are excluded and different things cannot be …
I feel like this series got off to a good start, but stalled right away. One post! So, time to get back to it. Yes, I recognize I’m jumping around from topic to topic, but I’m okay with that. Right now I feel there’s more to gain by touching many …
So I don’t forget, again… here are some notes about the syntax of a random table roller I wrote around 1997, 1998. This random table roller was inspired by a random text generator I found in college called ‘BNF’. Data files for this program had a syntax based on Backus-Naur …
