Some additions and a change to the locations, NPCs and quests document, including another important detail for mental rehearsal.

So you don't get too lost (assuming you're paying attention):

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I added another interesting NPC that I'd been chewing on for a while. I had been considering a combat companion that you could win in a quest at the castle. I developed her tonight as Poppy, the unlikely swordfighter. I gave her background a twist: you actually know her already ( Read more... )

Over a year ago I discussed an idea I had for Soulthieves, challenge games that would be unlocked after you'd completed the game once. The hardcore mode would force you to play without bad dreams (continues). The deaf PC and blind PC challenges would cause your PC to start with corresponding challenges. The blind PC challenge would likely be far ( Read more... )

I just made a subtly important change to FOE's NPCs that I need to mentally rehearse ( Read more... )

Something I should've mentioned already is that I did remember the blood clinic on Saturday but I didn't make it out. I got sick again last week. I thought this cold carousel might be due to my rather crappy-to-nonexistent diet, especially since my mother's surgery since I've been actively trying to conserve food to maintain some homunculus of ( Read more... )

Yes, I've selected the working title of the RL3 roguelike project.

As I mentioned in the relevant post a few days back, I was liking two of my ass pulls: Thus Beckons The Pastry, and The Flavour of Eternity. The first one is phucking hilarious to me for reasons ridiculous, and they both have straightforward acronyms, but as a title the second one ( Read more... )

There's something wrong with Elton John having a baby. He's…too old. I mean, he's gotta be in his 110s by now. (What? Were you expecting me to say something else? You don't know me very well. Tsk tsk.) Aw, well. Respect to the Rocket Man ( Read more... )

O RL3? This is the third (or first) roguelike idea I had in the spring. If you want a refresher ( Read more... )

I was thinking about how I want to eliminate flasks and vials in Soulthieves and just have potions, the way any other roguelike does. Why did I put in flasks in the first place?

Actually, the genesis of the idea was canisters, but the idea was basically that they'd be full of…dangerous substances and that you could make monsters' lives hell by ( Read more... )

This is highly boring stuff, unlike most of what I write here. But this is basically a technical note for myself on a metagame detail, the software's version number. The format is already on the front page of the manual, and it's this:

x.y.z.a.m.d.b

This would be the full version. The basic public version would be x.y.z. The reason for so much ( Read more... )