tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post5484138326923241750..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: Hacker's ShopAlexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-15235505648537255532011-07-15T11:20:30.240-06:002011-07-15T11:20:30.240-06:00The "artisan street" example from above ...The "artisan street" example from above is both evocative and realistic. In Milan city centre are still, one following another, "spurmakers' street", "armorers' street" and "swordmakers' street". Which would be extremely useful for your adventuring-type chars as they could just stroll down the road to pick up kit :)<br /><br />As aside note that could provide some campaign ideas, the wealth of the iron industry was hugely dependent on war expenditure (mentioned both in McNeill "The Pursuit of Power" and Meriggi, Pastore "Le regole dei mestieri e delle professioni: secoli XV-XIX"). I can totally see the ironwork guilds plotting to create casus belli or, bluntly, manouvering the city concil toward war.<br /><br />In a similar way, brickmakers would profit from building city walls (and in fact it's a common strategy in the videogame Patrician).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-11862742964468295382011-07-14T11:43:57.795-06:002011-07-14T11:43:57.795-06:00We work with the tools we have.We work with the tools we have.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-67629704346008857842011-07-14T11:33:32.413-06:002011-07-14T11:33:32.413-06:00A note on the working with code portion: I underst...A note on the working with code portion: I understand exactly what you are going through. I must confess that you are doing this all in excel (with the scope of the project) grates on the hair on the back of my neck as being the improper tool for the job. Like watching someone use a butter knife for a screw driver (my apologies if that comes off as Patronizing it is merely the only example that popped into my head). Yes it will work, but the ability to accidentally damage things, skew equations and break chains accidentally is so great. If you are an expert at excel this will no doubt greatly reduce these sorts of things.<br /><br />And I cannot without being a hypocrite talk about using the wrong tool because I am familiar with said wrong tool and unfamiliar with the proper tool. I do that ALL the time including currently.<br /><br />That said, once I hit a natural stopping point in my current project I would love to try and find a way to build this into a relational database (that set the scope of such a transformation would be daunting, and worse, also the same as my day job).<br /><br />Off topic but just the nature of my career makes the thought of all of this going through excel unsettling to me.Zzarchovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07714805545939725730noreply@blogger.com