WB101 Part 5: The Big Picture
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The Road to QAGS 3E, Part 10
Once SupaGenius was gone, we spent the rest of Origins comparing notes, but that didn’t really help us. We found out that Corporate Sugar Daddy had paid for the M-Force print run, but I don’t remember the excuse SuperGenius gave him for not using the money that was supposed to be in the bank account…
The Eternal Empire
July is World Anvil Summer Camp month, so I’m going to try to at least write enough prompts to get a participation badge, but since I’ve still got a lot of work left to do on The Blasphemous Temple of Yargolith, I probably wont’ have time to do much more. I’m starting big by finally…
Khezvaros Cartography Part 2
Note: This is part 2 of a continuing series (currently on part 7 for patrons). I’m making an old post public each time I make a new one for patrons (so when Part 8 goes up, Part 3 will go public). If you don’t want to wait, become a patron! You can find out more…
The League of Alphabetical Madmen (J-R)
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D&D 5E Review Part 2: Character Creation
Now that I’ve dumped on the cover of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, it’s time to actually open the book. The first page is a piece of art that’s similar (and similarly unappealing, in my opinion) to the 3E art: noncommittal water-colory backgrounds, indistinct linework, and just kind of bleh. Then there’s the usual front…
Campaign Design Walk-Through 3: Setting
Since setting is the foundation of most fictons, we’re going to start our design of the Guardians of Shymeria ficton there. Setting, as we all learned in English class, refers to the time and place where the story happens: Civil-War-era Texas, Middle Earth shortly after the Battle of Five Armies, or Earth-That-Was in its final…
Let’s Talk About AI
Generative AI has become a go-to scare topic for slow news days in recent years, and it’s a frequent topic of internet yelling, usually by people with a very limited grasp of how the technology actually works. I’m not going to claim that I’m expert on the topic, but since I’ve actually used AI, I…
Cinemechanix Design Journal: The Character Sheet
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Cinemechanix Design Journal: Finally Some Class
In case you’re wondering why the blog is late this week, I’ve re-joined the ranks of wage slavery, so new posts will probably be Monday instead of Friday from now on. In Cinemechanix, every character has a set of character concept traits that allows him to roll a d20 instead of a d12 as his…