Any time you build a nontrivial data model, you have to expect the original assumptions will be tested, and found wanting. You’re not going to get it right the first time. In fact, I’ve read design books — data modeling and software design — that advise the reader to be …
… will give you such a crick in the wrist! It’s a milestone, of a sort. I’ve catalogued 10,000 Pathfinder spells. And I’m not done yet. The data is not yet cleansed, so there will be Product Identity (character names, mostly) in the file. I consider this an ‘index’, much …
In Polyhedral Pantheons I described a process where you assign a domain to each face and each point of a polyhedron, then use adjacent sites to define deities based on those domain assignments. For instance, in the Shu-Shi pantheon (worksheet shown below) the ‘1’ face has the Nobility domain assigned, …
Most roleplaying games I’ve played have the PCs at more or less full ability at all times, unless they have exhausted their resources or are otherwise specifically constrained. There are a few exceptions, and I’d like to explore them a bit. In 13th Age, a d6 is placed on the …
There is another element that might be included in domain aspects: visions and portents. One of the elements from Dungeons & Dragons 3e’s Deities and Demigods that I had overlooked, deities have a ‘portfolio sense’. I may want to make it an element of the domain aspects. Demigods have a …
Considering how much time I’ve spent on the Echelon Reference Series, specifically capturing content from the Player Companions and especially from the Faiths of {Purity, Balance, Corruption} books, I really should have looked in them. The sections describing each deity, at least the more major ones, include the following subsections. …
Somehow, I almost forgot to talk about temples, shines, and other holy places. This is particularly ironic because I originally got the idea for Divine Trappings when I read Raging Swan’s Urban Dressing: Temples, which presents temple features based on domains and subdomains. Domain aspects don’t just apply to the …
The other day I discovered I need to change my Entity Template. It turns out that goals — which work very well in adventure design — might not be so great in world building. The reason surprised me when I understood why they didn’t fit. Goals are supposed to be …
Ah yes. Halfway through writing the post I wanted for ‘R’ day, and I realized it would be a much better renamed and used on ‘S’ day. One of the hazards of being me, it means I moved it and have to start over again. Bugger. Okay. The Pathfinder Roleplaying …
Quests and trials are structurally almost the same thing. A task of some sort is set before the questor/trial candidate, who will strive to complete it. The difference lies in the intent behind the task. A quest is to try to achieve something, working toward a goal or purpose. A …
