Tonight after work I headed over to Chase's work. Amidst the many computer and gaming discussions, Chase continued to build up his new server for macro10 and...
Map I have created a new graph paper map outline of the City of Crossroads. The map is 22x34 inches in size, with 4 squares to the inch. On my map, each square...
Backstory Today I spent some time trying to answer the question "How did the elemental realms come into being?" After some thought, I came up with the idea...
Mapping Today I tried 4 different ways to map all of my shops onto my expanded town layout. First, I tried a random layout, with the location of each shop in a...
Diverted! Tonight I spent some precious writing time on the online aspects of Xroads, rather than the book. Or, I could be crispy burned out from all the...
Tonight I headed over to Chase's office and caught him up on the shops and mapping craziness I have been working on. I also talked some more about the...
The Grave of Poor Old Kynall I have finished a rough draft of my first tabletop adventure for Xroads: The Grave of Poor, Old Kynall. If you stand outside of ...
Kynall's Story Despite it being mother's day, the kids being a terror from staying up too late and getting up too early, I still managed to get in front of the...
Rollup As I prepare to rollup starting characters for the tabletop games, I found some more tweaks and changes to make to the written character creator. I also...
... Well, judging from the abbot in Avernus, some games probably got pretty raucous. Cards would naturally have things on them pertaining to the power...
... Amen! ... I imagined it like this: Xroads has some tie to Earth, due to the presence of Zeus. So, I started with a traditional card deck: 14 cards for each...
Tonight I spent some quality time going through Book I "Adventurers" and looking at the entire Adventurer rolling up process. Chapter 1 covers the background...
Moving Tonight I moved the core of my Xroads writing effort off of my work laptop and back to my core Linux box. On the linux box, I replaced my Dvorak...
Just wanted to drop everyone a quick note... the tabletop news didn't get eaten. There hasn't been any for the past few days for a variety of reasons: a) work...
Adventuring Rules I took a break from reconstructing my office to work on the book. First up, completely reorganize the basic parts of the game rules used for...
Simple and Deluxe Character Sheets I prepared a 1-sheet (front and back) basic character sheet for Xroads. Stats, Weapons, Armor, Items, and Spells have a...
Got a pleasant surprise in my instant messenger today. Chase wrote me with instructions on where to check out the current Java Xroads server core. Chase's Java...
I'm Back! Finally, I got to fire up my processor and abuse my book some more. It's nice to be writing again, even if its a little bit. Since I don't normally...
Matt Heimer @ Jabber: you want a fixed up copy of original xr? Exile In Paradise: yes please Exile In Paradise: it runs under win and lin now? Exile In...
Spells! As promised, I began my push through the spells as a run toward getting the Adventurer's starting book into draft playable shape. My first thought was...
I've been having problems with certain players. juice & samui to be exact. I have reason to believe that it's the same person and this individual does nothing...
... The eternal problem of the Internet... ... IIRC, this isn't the first complaint posted to the forum about this player. ... While it's not cricket, poor...
Fedora 7 Upgrade Complete Well, this isn't really tabletop news... but it is, of a sort. I have finished the bulk of the work necessary to upgrade my Fedora[1]...
In the interest of being a bit more accessible to our burgeoning community, here are my instant messager contacts. If you decide to add me, please make sure to...
Thanks for writing back. I understand the game and how it goes. And the "people justice" that could make this fun. But I dont have friends at those high...
Spells Work has been a drastic pain in the <censored> this month. However, Carrie was able to distract the kids long enough this evening for me to brush the...
AID (Air) A theoretical book on magical energies mentions this spell. A magic user with enough spell and life energy can cast a spell which will drain on his...
Hi, I just wanted to introduce myself. I recently joined the group. I have looked for the game off and on for the last ten years and finally found it. I...
Howdy! ... So, you have been looking for roughly as long as its been since I took my board down? *grinning* ... It's a fun game, which is what keeps us all...
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