The Tao of D&D

This post may disagree or discount previous posts written about game infrastructure.  Where disagreement occurs, this post (the latest in my...

Five years ago , I wrote a series of posts using the game Civilization IV to describe a methodology for creating micro-infrastructure for th...

I've been approached by a programmer who, reading the recent posts, has expressed an interest in making the trade system into a program....

For those supporting me on Patreon (it's only $10, one time, for one month, to see it), I have added the new pricing table to my Google...

I've gotten through my equipment list and established Sets for each object .  I realized as I went that the Sets are quite crunchy enoug...

This afternoon, I had a discussion with a regular reader who tells me that I should find a programmer and have my trade system made into a f...

So, what have I been doing? Very boring stuff.  I finished the rebuild for the sources table, the table that describes the origins of all ...

Phew. With respect to the redesign of my sources and production calculator spreadsheets , which will mean nothing to those not steeped in ...

Something light-hearted and simple, then.  Back in 2014, I published a group of sea trade maps .  I'd like to draw the reader's atte...

One of the systems that became part of the lessons dialogue , described in the last post , was my own, an implemented version of my trade ta...

This week, I "finished" my pricing table.  That is to say, it isn't as though I won't continue to add things to the table ...

"Then there's Alexis again. Damn it, Alexis. If you're a regular reader of his blog you've been subjected to all manners o...

Regarding the trade table system, I was asked by Maxwell to discuss my use of "market towns" - what is the difference between tho...

Let's talk about walls. I've been working on the above table since this morning; I've decided to quit on it for a bit.  My...

For those who are familiar with excel, this is fairly straight forward stuff.  As I go forward, however, it gets harder to explain what I...

Okay, the next problem.  Determining the distances between our market cities.  I think what I'm going to do going forward is to put up a...