I’ve moved onto a new stage in this cosmology development project. I’d be working on it right now if not for the fact that not blogging might be worse for me than not working on this project. Over the weekend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got a smart phone over a month ago. The timing almost but doesn’t quite coincide with when I began blogging daily again. You might have noticed. I don’t have a lot of stuff on my phone yet, and I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, after my initial outing I realized that I needed less information than I was recording. Plus, the stuff I was getting stopped being super-helpful after a couple hundred entries. So I went back to concept. I realized I didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I started in on the next phase of my Cornerstones project. I have a spreadsheet and I’m getting used to entering lots of monster data continuously. For practice, I’m using the 4e Monster Manual. If you go by stat block[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been working at transcribing various Powers That Be to my campaign wiki as part of am ongoing project. Some time ago (two years, if you can believe it) I researched and adapted several different Final Fantasy games to my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Edit: Dang, I thought I had this scheduled for Monday morning. For shame. My wife told me to read the Johannes Cabal books. Over my week-long vacation — went with my wife and my mother to California, met up with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was inspired by reading Hack & Slash, “On a Light and Dark Age.” I’ve been turning over how factions “gain experience.” One possibility is population growth. As factions gain membership, they advance in level. This would be cool because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A bazillion years ago, I figured I’d want to experiment and play some Civ games to get an idea of tech trees before moving forward with faction development. I did the thing, so now I’m ready to do the thing.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, if the tech tree is like a spell list, how do you tech? Do you even tech? Well, I had this accompanying idea with “Factions Like Wizards” — independently-researched Inventions or Innovations might represent interactions between the different technologies.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Phew. This has been a long time coming. After playing lots of Alpha Centauri, I think I’m actually at a point where I have enough mechanics built up to begin bridging “factions” and “cultures.” Uh, to make sense of that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
