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The Commodities of Your Campaign
Posted on: 5/5/2010 8:57:12 AM
I've come up with a preliminary list of commodities. It's probably too many to manage at this early stage, but I wanted more depth than, "Food, transportation, building materials and metal." Next step is to come up with manufactured goods and sort things...
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The Cities of Your Campaign
Posted on: 5/4/2010 1:18:57 PM
I've been working off a map of Rome that shows the development of the Italian peninsula from 500 BCE up through the conclusion of the 3rd Punic War (about 180 BCE, if memory serves). I also have a map of the Etruscan cities from when Rome was just a prote...
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It Is Finished.
Posted on: 12/11/2009 8:15:40 PM
I've completed my T5 AstroSynthesis application. I spent about 12 hours on it a week ago, Sunday and wrapped it up. Now all I have to do is make it pretty. And distributable. Of course, I'll need the T5 publisher's permission first, so I'll just send...
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Game Changer
Posted on: 11/16/2009 8:30:09 PM
NBOS, makers of AstroSynthesis, sent me a private beta version of their AstroSynthesis 3.0 software. I'm not that special. I purchased a copy of 2.0 and subscribed to the mailing list, so I got into a beta. Hooray for me! The big change in this new v...
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Stormy Weather
Posted on: 10/21/2009 5:12:01 PM
I've come to the Climate part of the new-and-improved UWP or Universal World Profile. The climate of a world is defined as one of 5 possible values: Temperate, Hot, Cold, Twilight Zone, or Locked. Determining these for systems generated using the system ...
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Finding the Taint
Posted on: 10/14/2009 2:52:49 PM
I've got a working method for Atmospheric determination. Some of the comments in the code should help explain things. I did some research in determining the percentages that make something dangerous. Since AstroSynthesis recognizes only four atmospher...
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Atmospheres Revisited
Posted on: 10/8/2009 7:49:32 PM
Given that I have a pressure number (measured in Atmospheres), the density of the atmosphere can be pretty easily determined. I simply take the number and implement a standard range for Trace, Very Thin, Thin, Standard and Dense. It's pretty simple giv...
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Atmospheres
Posted on: 10/5/2009 11:32:36 PM
All rightey. I have two atmosphere data points. Atmosphere which is a measure of the pressure on the surface of the planet and Atmosphere Components which contains a breakdown of the gases contained therein. T5 recognizes 15 different types of atmospher...
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The Software, Revisited
Posted on: 10/5/2009 4:14:49 PM
I made a major breakthrough on Friday night working on the new-and-improved T5 system generator for AstroSynthesis. I got the LINQ queries working (finally!) through a series of trial-and-error attempts and then completed the 'Save' method. That means ...
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THINGS ABOUT 4TH Ed. DnD I DON’T LIKE
Posted on: 4/28/2009 9:48:07 PM
Carl’s been bugging me to post a bit about the DnD 4th edition game since I’m the only one of the three hams here to have any real play experience with the system.  So, I guess I am finally.  My group up in Bellingham decided to switch over and try the 4th...
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