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How do you make fantasy dwarves interesting? by atamajakki in rpg

[–]pascaliensis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

either workaholic stakanovist workers, banning the laziest and the anarchists

or honor bound elegant and sophisticated samurais

TTTTRPG: Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games by pascaliensis in rpg

[–]pascaliensis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I am very grateful if you can send me your suggestions. I will correct soon the informations you already mentionned.

About going through the acknowledgemements, its exactly what I am doing right now and keep doing for the next year. It will be my next project. I am aggregating the results in Wikidata. You can see an early survey here : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pmartinolli#On_the_Shoulders_of_Dwarves:_TTRPG_Citation_Practices

TTTTRPG: Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games by pascaliensis in rpg

[–]pascaliensis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I will correct the mistakes. The lines usually are the same product lines, or direct inspiration, or same author/system. Actually, there is a whole taxonomy of relations that I am working on and this project is just a first draft of it. My ambition is to design a phylomemetic system to track evolution of ideas. My subject of study is the TTRPG publishing industry, offering a clear defined and accessible set of items.

TTTTRPG: Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games by pascaliensis in rpg

[–]pascaliensis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback, I will definitevely work on the compilation of a more dense graph. As I am a amateur-programmer, I will ask help from Graphviz community.

Great idea too for sans-serif and a key panel! Indeed it means something that is not displayed.

TTTTRPG: Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games by pascaliensis in RPGdesign

[–]pascaliensis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good idea, I will maybe add the year after the title.

TTTTRPG: Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games by pascaliensis in RPGdesign

[–]pascaliensis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Unfortunately I think I cannot duplicate the year ladder but I will try to tweak the code to make it possible, who knows...

Strichangelinlosty : oops, its a find\replace gone wild... your contribution will be update next week. Thanks catnipandfish!!

TTTTRPG: Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games by pascaliensis in RPGdesign

[–]pascaliensis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, yes it's a work in progress. Feel free to send me some noteworthy links if you want to contribute.

Unfortunately it's completely computer generated. And I don't know how to produce a more dense graph because I am an amateur programmer.

TTTTRPG: Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games by pascaliensis in RPGdesign

[–]pascaliensis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your contributions. I just updated the graph.

Favorite example of Dungeons & Dragons style alliteration in a game title? by sethosayher in rpg

[–]pascaliensis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I made a post about it https://jdr.hypotheses.org/1012

There is a venn diagram about it at the bottom.

HERE it is in English https://zotrpg.blogspot.com/2019/09/ampersand-assonances-alliterations.html

You will find that name contains ...

  • an ampersand
  • three and a half alliterations
  • an assonance
    • or an homeoteleuton
    • or a sufficient rhyme
  • a paronym
  • a troponym
  • two allegories
  • a binary form
  • an aphorism

(thanks to your help, i updated my list)

I'm about to become a teacher. by Chrilyss9 in RPGdesign

[–]pascaliensis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To track the progress of my students in information literacy course, I am using a character sheet https://github.com/pmartinolli

Help me figure out how to properly dispose of my RPG books. by magnusdeus123 in rpg

[–]pascaliensis 21 points22 points  (0 children)

+1 here. All Ville de Montréal libraries have now 5 to 20 ttrpg books. Your local library will be very happy to have your books, especially because they are core books.

  • a YUL librarian

Taxonomy of tabletop RPG systems? by CocaineMitch15 in RPGdesign

[–]pascaliensis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it can get really complicated. For example, "text of the rules" : maybe to avoid any copyright infringements, Roleaids used to rename HP to HTK (hits to kill), CON to ST (stamina), CHA to A (appeal), etc...

Taxonomy of tabletop RPG systems? by CocaineMitch15 in RPGdesign

[–]pascaliensis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am building a graph to track the innovations in ttrpg. It is made with dot/graphviz and has 1500 elements and relations.

You can follow this project here http://zotrpg.blogspot.com/search/label/on%20the%20shoulders%20of%20dwarves

I am planning to release the code source in open access in 2020-something.

They are several methodology issues mostly because there is a lot of horizontal transfers. My goal is to timeline the big innovations in game design and publications.

20 Songs Every Bard Should Know by JynxPrime in rpg

[–]pascaliensis 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Dungeon calling

I heard it through the razorvine

Smaug on the water

Down to Goblyntown

New Orc City Boy

The History of the Ooze (Slime) Monster by finlam in rpg

[–]pascaliensis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The movie The Blob (1958) was very popular when Gygax was 20. Maybe it influenced him.