Living Document: Design Notes One of my major goals with Paths Not Taken is to simplify the writing. Pathfinder 1e inherited a great deal of awkward wording from the (Revised) System Reference Document. I’d like to make it easier. In no particular order, and I expect this list to grow, here …
Another project — my 2021 NaGaDeMon attempt, ‘Paths Not Taken’ — I want to get back to. There are many things I like about Pathfinder 2e. One of the big things I loved about Pathfinder 1e, though, is how close it was to D&D 3.x — at one time, my …
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done anything with my Seekers of Lore campaign. I want to fix that. It even aligns with this year’s theme of ‘Year of the Lost’. The entire campaign is based around looking for things lost in the distant past. Or not so distant. …
I would have sworn I’d posted this before. Ah well. Random generators are how I compensate for limited imagination. … okay, turns out I did post about this before. I just couldn’t find the right search terms and missed it when I scanned posts for the last year. Ah well, …
I was thinking about writing ‘Anatomy of a Faction’ today, outlining the elements of a faction. Working through the list, I realized it’s pretty close to my Entity Template, so I figured I’d try that first. Below, I largely treat ‘faction’ and ‘organization’ interchangeably. One can say that by definition …
‘Factions’ is another topic that fits Year of the Lost. I’d not originally included in the introductory post because I hadn’t written an actual series about it. I suppose I’ll start now. Well… I said I haven’t written a series about factions, and that’s true. I have written about factions …
As is common, common enough that GreyKnight wrote a post about it, I’m revisiting an earlier post. What are the odds this one will be different? (Hint: pretty good) I’m pretty happy with my descriptions of manifestation building block grades, but they’re not quite there. Happily, I know people I …
Yesterday I described the components of Planar Trappings: ‘manifestation building blocks’, ‘trait manifestations’, and ‘sample planes’. Since planes are described using traits, and traits have manifestations built from common blocks, I’m starting there. Existing Art First, let’s look at the references I’m working from. Manual of the Planes from Wizards …
One of the most exciting books from the AD&D era, for me, was Manual of the Planes. It expanded wonderfully on the two pages of information in the… Player’s Handbook? Okay, that part never made sense to me. Anyway! Manual of the Planes gave us information about other places that …
While developing Divine Trappings, I’ve created way more random tables that I imagined I would. I expected to have random tables in the domain descriptions. I didn’t expect to come up with so many generic random tables… but they all look useful. Domain Field Tables Still working on it, but …
