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RPG blog list
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Echelon Characters: Dorchfia
Dorchfia is a wild fairy, who habitually takes the form of a large black cat. She is vicious and aggressive towards "civilised" folk, whom she sees as a threat to her precious forests. She encourages the spirits of trees to grow into wild and terrifying shapes to deter trespassers, and creates many illusory lures and traps designed to ensnare ( Read more... ) -
Echelon Characters: Devri Vannalat
Devri Vannalat is chief shaman of the Anouki tribe, who live in the frigid wastes of the distant north. His role in the tribe is to manage the tribe's oral histories, provide healing (both supernatural and otherwise), and help locate the richest hunting/fishing grounds. He also uses ice magic to construct the tribe's large dwellings and buildings, ( Read more... ) -
Echelon Monsters: Svart-alfar Wretch
The teeming masses of the svart-alfar lurk in caves and dark corners all over the world. Small and wiry, their coal-black skin makes a sharp contrast to their wide pale eyes, and the musty smell of rot often accompanies them on their rare forays to the surface on moonless nights. They are individually cowardly and prefer to move in groups when ( Read more... ) -
rules variant for playing Lexicon
This is a modification of the Lexicon rules.
The main purpose is to make selecting topics for articles a bit more open-ended instead of requiring alphabetical order.
I've also tried to make nominating new topics proceed a bit more predictably, as last time we played this we ended up generating far more nominations than we actually used.
Scholars
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Contested dice rolls
Somebody was talking about contested-roll systems the other day, thought I'd write some stuff about the maths behind them ( Read more... ) -
Massively Multiplayer Serverless Games
Notes from a discussion today about an MMORPG-like game which runs across a distributed network of player machines, perhaps as an application on top of IPFS.
Storage: IPFS-like P2P strategies allow us to supply pieces of the game world to players as needed, with load balancing attained by incentivising nodes to hold onto popular pieces ( Read more... ) -
Planning Poker
I was reading the below statistics paper the other week and it occurred to me that part of their result might apply to the planning poker process, specifically since planning poker requires a unanimous decision ( Read more... ) -
How to: Accurately simulate the roll of dice with any number of sides
Variations on this question comes up often, so I'm making a post about the maths behind it so that I have something to link to.
It's a fun thing to reason about, so put aside any crazy notions you may have that "statistics is boring" and let's dive in!
First, an example
Let's take a specific example first: I have 6-sided dice and want to simulate ( Read more... )