We’re almost at the end of the 2024 A-Z Blog Challenge, and it seems that for the first time I’ve managed to stay entirely on topic. I don’t think that’s happened before… it feels weird. Anyway, with all I’ve written so far this month, what else is there to do? …
When I published Polyhedral Pantheons in 2015 (… coming up on ten years ago, ow), it was based all on polyhedrons. First was the icosahedron (d20), prompted by the Rose of the Prophet series by Weis and Hickman, but extending the process to more polyhedra, and then making other adjustments …
Long ago, GreyKnight wrote The Post To End It, a bit of fun about what goes into my writing a blog post here. He almost absolutely nails it. ‘Paragraphs appearing’ being 5d20 is a bit of an exaggeration, maybe, but the rest of it is spot on. The last table …
A (probably) short one today. I’ve done some tables used for the Artifacts field, I’m likely to do something about entity names, but another group comes to me. Places. I feel like I want a way to randomly generator geography. I didn’t foresee the need for ‘place names’, but I’m …
This is going to be more of a ‘strategic’ post, in that I’m going to describe how I expect to solve the problem, rather than actually show my solution. The simple reason for it: it’s going to be quite a bit of work, because there is little support for the …
Yet again, “what I planned to write” and “what I wrote” don’t quite match. They’re related, of course. But they’re not the same. I’d expected to write about domain-specific word choices (i.e. more random tables). I started to work up some examples, and realized they might take up a fair …
There are so few words relevant to my purpose that start with ‘Q’, I wasn’t sure what I was going to talk about when I got here, but thankfully those random tables came along at a good time for me! Some years ago, I wrote Gaining Favor of Patrons. This …
I might barely be involved when we picked colors to paint our house, but by damn I can do it here! … that I have a habit of picking colors randomly here might be why I was not so involved in picking house colors. Ah well, random tables for colors …
My first cut at naming artifacts was pretty okay, but a little unsatisfying. I had a decent start, but I really needed a more varied set of objects to work with. So, here I have more. I cobbled together a much richer collection of ‘object tables’ that I can use …
A few days ago I wrote Making Names for Myself (I actually have a buffer this month!) and put up a hundred artifact names. They were pretty okay, I think, but it felt like the naming could be tighter. At the same time, I drafted a (very cheap) post for …
