Housekeeping: I know I've got at least a couple new readers, so if you need any summaries of all these goofy projects I'm working on, feel free to ask. This post will be a musing on a subplot (i.e. quest arc) idea I have for the roguelike RPG I've been working on, Soulthieves in the Shadows. It'll be a big game (if I ever finish it). If nothing ( Read more... )

I added a subsection on training areas under the Quests and Affiliations section of the manual. This demanded specialized attention, especially since during training your hit point (HP) display is replaced by training hits (TH). Training areas are often similar to regular areas - although some may be more like mini-games - but there is no actual ( Read more... )

Another subplot musing.

For some reason I ended up reading the Wikipedia article about Herschel Grynszpan today. He was the Jewish kid who, by assassinating a German diplomat in a fit of rage, unwittingly instigated Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Though a more random act than that of Gavrilo Princip (the teen assassin that nailed Franz ( Read more... )

I had the beginnings of a sophisticated subplot occur to me today, so I'm just gonna write some stuff for myself here ( Read more... )