Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
In COADE or some of these space combat mechanics (Non-Dog-Fight Mechanics) can be simplified as ONE shelling point. The GM works back from that shelling point. There are limited kinds…
Read more →I realize that not everyone enjoys the Books keeping, but the problem with not doing the books is CONSISTENCY that bites us in the ass. Novels and Stories are more…
Read more →This Exercises the Sense of Technical DEBT of the GM and the Players. If you want to exercise your Total Cost of Ownership Calculations which includes Factoring Technical Debt ( as well as…
Read more →Digging up my old Traveller notes is a pain. Classic Traveller ship spreadsheets, Mongoose Traveller, Interestellar Wars, and now MgT2. The more detailed I go the more assumptions I find.…
Read more →So there are some Tailoring (PMBOK term) I want to do with CE to make it easier for me to run. Every GM is different as they all have their…
Read more →Lessons Learned after reviewing Traveller and Cepheus Engine after my long hiatus. Traveller is a game where you make a Biz Plan as part of due diligence. Unfortunately, when you…
Read more →What did I learn? Using an Ipad6 with 2GB ram of about 500usd would take twice to thrice as long as an Ipad 12.9” with 2000usd (philippines). But these are…
Read more →200430 Here is the list I can scrounge Up 200427 ECQ FOLDER https://tinyurl.com/yap6p4z8 GITB ECQ Notes https://tinyurl.com/ycb4aedw Chat’s Tracker https://tinyurl.com/ydys8nda Office of the President: Audience Everyone Other Issuances (reports to…
Read more →TIL that the Essentials Goods lists DTI memorandum 20-08 has been expanded, 20-16 and 20-06 have been updated. DTI’s list of Advisories ADVISORY: DTI issues MC 20-16: Allowing Other Essential Business Activities,…
Read more →If one believes all skills need maintenance, then XP has a shelf life. That over time our ability to get XP will be hampered by age, obligations, and changes in…
Read more →The argument of Authority (and its all other forms like see the Sub fallacies and related arguments, normally accompanied by Ad Hominem – poisoning the well ) – is one…
Read more →The Fighter is the Baseline So I should balance the Professions and Specialists against this. From the looks of things I’m going to have to Defer a lot of Abilities…
Read more →Creating the Test Characters made me realize the following. Gdocs having Columns eats up a ton of ram. I noticed ever since I started using columns to compress my format…
Read more →In a TRPG you can make a character’s success hinge on arbitrary things – see “For want of a nail” what’s important is you Prioritize and Limit the negotiations on…
Read more →150428 GITB Gaming Ideas Repository200410 GITB Combat System Only Background During this Lockdown, I finally had time to check all the books I bought for Christmas which was the D&D…
Read more →I realize I am able to create very good mental models when I create new categories and able to group certain ideas together better by fixing up their characteristics. Its…
Read more →An NC is not inherently a bad thing. It’s all about CONTEXT. is 20 bad or good, is 1M bad or good? its all context. A non-conformity depends. Example, where…
Read more →Tried to print out a Statement Sized Gdoc with my default Arial 11. With Lorem ipsum to check how it looks and various font sizes. This is set to be…
Read more →last 2019 Xmas I bought a The Fantasy Trip Legacy Edition, Dungeon Fantasy Boxed Starter Set, Essentials Kit and the D&D5E starter set. So it was pretty obvious I was…
Read more →What happens now? Will I take the CAPM? I don’t know. I don’t think so. Anything beyond a few months I can’t foresee. Definitely, I can’t pass the CAPM without…
Read more →Pandemics are not just Foreseeable, you cannot make people act on it unless they’ve experienced it. Anything too scary to be unimaginable – is too difficult to communicate. To appreciate…
Read more →One thing PMBOK can learn from ISO 9001 is that to demonstrate capability iso Audits for a System in place. PMBOK asks you to spend more hours than you can…
Read more →TL:DR – Market Confidence/Value shift to Dependable Markets – will that be the Philippines? If I use a purely qualitative measure (not quantitative) of the US healthcare, response, and amount…
Read more →I can’t do this on the weekend because EVERYONE is online doing the training. So I guess I’m going to wait till Monday to do this. I’m trying to finish…
Read more →Key Problems with ERP this is my notes in the company document about ERP studies. No ones probably going to read it, and its more out of compulsion to write…
Read more →Pandemic > Recession > Bankruptcy and Bail Out > people who are outside the system – and exempted from the scarcity – having a strong influence in the system and…
Read more →Sometimes I see it as a Generational Problem. the Methods and the difference of Generations. The new Gen mayors and LGU heads, as compared to how their Parents or an…
Read more →Basically, this is my idea of how abstract combat can work. This focuses a lot on storytelling and working towards a “minimum viable product” or the negotiation we typically have…
Read more →200329 Fantasy Trip – Flow Chart 16.5″ x 11.7″ (A3) I didn’t detail it so much because I just needed to explain the flow visually. Particularly the combat flow.
Read more →Check these two definitions (PMBOK) 1) The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work. 2) The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work. Its…
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