Good things of the 21st century
RPG Historian Shannon Appelcline produces a hardback tome on Traveller, how can you not love this?
Just started, but it is good.
RPG Word Embeddings – Analogies – 02
What might be like what in this less than ideal game pdf hackery, here is an example:
These 2 examples, not too bad.
RPG Word Embeddings – What is Most Similar? – 01
I made a gloVe embedding model based on my game book collection – 7000 odd, of which 6000 or so managed to make it through a first pass pdf extraction pipeline
This framework is quite good https://github.com/NRCan/geoscience_language_models/tree/main/project_tools
https://github.com/NRCan/geoscience_language_models/tree/main/project_tools and parallelises, which is important for big books
The C version of gloVe is superior:
https://github.com/stanfordnlp/GloVe
With some work you can get a python version going, but I wouldn’t recommend for large numbers.
e.g. https://pypi.org/project/glove-py
and associated hacks..
The Notebook associated with this is here: https://github.com/bluetyson/RPG-gloVe-Model
These days microsoft probably won’t let you see something that big online, so will make a series of post excerpts.
Mothership Books and Supplements
Here’s a google doc with a list
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fWzs6hRpx8ZTOpLWAUy7B0wRwopkzWC0yvr8i-7r1pQ/edit#gid=0
Slaine and Ukko for D&D
https://shutteredroom.blogspot.com/2023/12/slaine-and-ukko-for-basic-games.html
On creating these sort of inspiration-for-genre heroes in D&D games.
In this case, the pair from 2000AD.
Random Generators on wiki pages
Campaign wiki style.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-08-13_Random_generators_on_wiki_pages
Rebooting Abulafia
https://github.com/modality/abulafia
The old random generators – instructions on how to get this running again.
Punched into next week
This is a classic move in this game recap
https://barkingalien.blogspot.com/2023/12/kineto-returns-inthe-return-of-return.html
The Black Demon of Cortez
Cryptid megaladons make good game monsters. Bonus points for black and attacking at night.
Freedom In the Deep
This would be good to turn a fantasy adventure version of into a megaladon.
