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February 22, 2007

Cool Tool: Town Generator

I haven’t looked at the other generators on the site yet, but Justin “Quirk” Dunmyre’s Town Generator is impressive. It comes up with tons of NPCs, each with a names, race/class/level, gender, and distinguishing characteristic. It also generates taverns, stores, and shops of various sorts, each with staff and notes about the shop’s peculiarities. Obviously, it doesn’t go into depth,...

February 2, 2007

Culture-making checklist

I’m in the middle of a project that involves sketching out various cultures for use in D&D campaigns. I’ll provide more details on this as the project progresses, but I thought it might be worthwhile to go through a bit of the process here. The following list was drafted as a set of guidelines. It is not complete, but it...

January 25, 2007

Brainwriting a Campaign

Today I was in a training all morning. One of the things we covered were some team-based brainstorming techniques. I’d been familiar with the idea of brainwriting before, but this morning I thought of using it for group campaign design. Here’s the basic (slightly edited for my purpose) idea. You begin with a grid/table (a spreadsheet works). Across the top...

December 14, 2006

Shareable on-line character sheet

A month ago, I was ruminating about the possibility of using Google Docs & Spreadsheets to keep an updated character sheet on the web in a way that you can share it with your GM. You can look at the sheet I’ve been working on here. Another neat thing about this: there is a discussion feature. I haven’t played with...

November 16, 2006

Neat Tool?

I’ve been playing with Google Docs and Spreadsheets a bit lately. In the past, I’ve used Excel-based character sheets for various games. I’m thinking that I might try to find some good character sheets that I can upload to the spreadsheets bit. Benefits: Character sheets are always available via the web. When I get an e-mail with an xp award...

March 26, 2006

Exalted 2nd ed. Character Sheet

I got bored yesterday, and created what may one day become a semi-workable character sheet for Exalted 2nd ed. Here is the first draft of it.

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