Hello fearless MOTiEs! Today I have uploaded a new group logo and put together a new group description for the Crossroads of the Elements YahooGroup. The Logo ...
Since my last update about the tabletop Xroads project, there is been a bit of a set-back. I have chosen *not* to make the tabletop Xroads compatible with the ...
My wife Carrie has asked me to keep a work log of the project to develop Crossroads into a role-playing game. Personally, I think she just wants to know where...
GPL Spend two hours reading through the entire GPL and breaking it down word by word. It seems to do what it advertises, despite the wandering and confusing...
OGL Removal Didn't get much design done. I was happy with getting SOMETHING started last night. Did begin ripping out large chunks of OGL. 2.6MB of text...
Turn Sequence Every game, online or print, has a sequence of events that happen each turn, to keep things in order and help with bookkeeping. Tonight, took at...
Spells Today, I took the plunge into tackling one of the largest sections of Xroads first: the Spells. There are 30 experience levels worth of spells, for each...
Playing Catch-Up As you can tell, I am playing catch-up today with the notices. I hate playing catch-up. Hopefully everyone likes this craziness. Please direct...
Spells Well that's it, the first pass through all 137 spells in Xroads is done. I created a text table/form, and filled it out with loads of crossreferenced...
Question: How would you change the aeroslay spell? Responses (Choice, #Votes, Percentage) 1. Get rid of it! 0 0 No one wanted to get rid of aeroslay......
Aeroslay I took the source code of the entire Aeroslay spell and converted it to English descriptions of what the spell does. Very very interesting to see...
... you only remember when you lived someplace based on which RPG books you bought while you lived there. True story. Just realized that I remembered when I...
Spell Form Tonight I laid out the first cut at a simple spell tracking sheet for Crossroads characters: the Spell Level, the Spell Element, the Name of the...
The link below pretty much summarizes the whole license question for Xroads as a book AND software project. This is just some of the stuff we've wrestled with ...
Progress Checklist Yesterday, I was thinking of a checklist for all of the pieces I need to go through, top to bottom, to finish the game book. Tonight, I...
GM Tools Tonight I started on my checklist. By the end of the evening, I was able to clear 18 source code sections from my outline and turn them into draft...
Classes Tonight I broke down the male and female descriptions of the 22 Fighter, Mage, Fighter-Mage, and Mage-Fighter class combinations. Level Up Steps My...
Character Creation Today I took the StartPlayer() and LoadStatistics() source code functions apart to write out the first draft of the Character Creation...
Message Data Today I wrote some scripts to break the MSG data files that hold most of the text for Crossroads down into outline nodes. Checklist With the text...
Shopkeepers I was up at 4:30am this morning for work, so I am going to bed early tonight (like as soon as I finish writing this). But, I was able to go through...
Signs Crossroads comes with 173 "secret messages"... if you type "look <keyword>" in certain rooms, where the keyword is some clue or detail from the room...
Tonight, Chase and I talked about archiving the inactive accounts for Xroads which have not logged in within the last 90 days. A quick look showed almost 2,800...
Number of Attacks I thought I would spend tonight breaking down the items in Xroads into individual descriptions. Turns out, I have already done it. Neat. So,...
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