Visions of Aestia

17 Feb 2005

gChargen 0.2

Filed under: — JBowtie @ 12:04 am

Well, looks I have met the functionality milestones for alpha release. I need to do some basic sanitation (license files, dependency checking) and I can then unleash this monster on the world.
Unfortunately the data files are a tricky problem due to Open Gaming Content restrictions; some of my test cases include closed content. Meaning nobody will be able to use it for, well, a while. And being able load and save is part of the next milestone.
Maybe I should keep it to myself until 0.4 after all…

01 Dec 2004

Essays 1743: font by John Stracke

Filed under: — JBowtie @ 12:53 pm

Essays 1743: font by John Stracke

This is a realy nice role-playing font. I might want to play with using it as the body font for the Aestia book.

28 Nov 2004

Participation is up

Filed under: — JBowtie @ 1:04 pm

It’s always nice to see participation up in a shared initiative like the wiki. Hopefully the trend will continue.

16 Nov 2004

More spells

Filed under: — JBowtie @ 4:29 pm

As I continue to move spells from wiki 1 to wiki 2, I’m struck by how many of them have “hidden” material costs. The Arcana Unearthed design meant that it was the caster rather than the spell that dictated which components were necessary to cast a spell; however it appears that many spells mention costly components in their descriptions.

I’m tempted to rectify that, but in many cases I’m sure the designer was trying to balance things. Maybe I’ll just tamp down the power of a few of them as I remove the component cost.

12 Nov 2004

Slogging through spells

Filed under: — JBowtie @ 3:14 pm

It’s amazing the sheer number of spells I’ve already typed in.
Currently, I’ve moved about 60 spells from the old wiki to the new one, and I’m not even done with the letter C. How many spells, really, do you need?

Maybe I should start looking at alternate spell systems, like Elements of Magic. On the other hand, the system right now is fairly nuanced. Too nuanced? Hard to say.

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