Let’s get everything under one roof here, or at least, on one page. Here are my collected notes on Seventh Sanctum files, which are available for download from Seventh Sanctum. These notes collate and summarize the posts below. I have not spoken with Steven Savage, the creator of Seventh Sanctum. …
I’ve spent the last week or so exploring Seventh Sanctum data files. Ultimately they proved to be less complicated than I thought at first, but they do involve some unexpected design choices. Not my best code, I’ll admit, but for a proof of concept it’ll do. All three file formats …
The last few days, I’ve described how I understand Seventh Sanctum data files work. Of course, that’s what I think. Next step is proving it, and the easiest way I can imagine is to use the data in the files. General Strategy For this exercise I’ll be using Perl as …
I’ve described Seventh Sanctum‘s configuration files and vocabulary files in the last couple days. Today I describe the third file type, seed files. This is, I think, the most complex Seventh Sanctum file type to use. On closer examination, the syntax is not that complex, and there aren’t as many …
Of the Seventh Sanctum files, the configuration files I described yesterday are the simplest. They were not, however, the first files I dove into. The seed files looked the most complex, but the vocabulary files looked immediately useful and easy enough to start. So that is where I started. Sections …
In my last post I described three types of files used by Seventh Sanctum, at a high level. This post describes the configuration files in more detail. This is the simplest file type. I figure I can knock this one out and it’ll go live tomorrow morning. Configuration File Syntax …
Yesterday I decided it’s finally time to dive into Seventh Sanctum data files. They are a little more complicated than I expected, but that’s okay. As I dig further, I see ideas that never occurred to me in my own random generators. This feels very much like an evolved system …
Seventh Sanctum is one of my favorite imagination helpers. The creator, Steven Savage, opened up his data files and talks about his plans for Seventh Sanctum. Having access to this data set looks like it’ll be useful to me. I see tables for names (my bane), magic (lots of things), …
When I first started working on Just the Rules, I had thought to just make a minimalist version of Pathfinder. Don’t include all the game entities, just the rules around them, much like the D&D 3.x Rules Compendium. While doing, so, though, I kept getting sidetracked into alternate rules sets. …
Yesterday I talked about tables I aim to create for Divine Trappings. I found I’d picked up the easy one, but there are quite a few more elements to consider. Elements not included yesterday… These elements are in several ways more complex than yesterday’s. I’m going to give this some …
