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This might derail my original plan ("Small Gods") for the 2025 A-Z Blog Challenge, but I think it'll be worth it. For me, at least. Recently I've been reading a couple of books about LaTeX, my publishing tool of choice. LaTeX Cookbook, by Stefan Kottwitz LaTeX Graphics with TikZ, by Stefan Kottwitz Unlocking LaTeX Graphics, by Tamara Kolda…

A little over three weeks ago I announced this year's theme ("Small Gods"). Last week on April 1 I announced the starting lineup of small gods I was going to write about. At this point it looks like an April Fools joke, but it wasn't mine, on purpose. I think perhaps it was the universe playing a prank on me…

Welcome to my 2025 A-Z Blog Challenge! This year, my theme is 'Small Gods'. Gods are often depicted as immortal, immensely powerful beings. They often epitomize elements and aspects of mortality, while not themselves being mortal. Even if not omnipotent -- how can they be, when they can defeat each other? -- they are typically omnipresent. They can exercise and extend their power anywhere.

It is A-Z Blog Challenge time again! This year I'm going back to an older topics, part of my Year of the Lost: Small Gods. Small gods are semi-divine entities that can be focus of faith at local levels. In most roleplaying games, it seems deities are omnipresent, if not omniscient and omnipotent. It would suck to play an adventuring cleric who can’t do their thing because they’re too far from home. For those who don’t travel much, though, a small god with small powers that reach a small way… can be enough.

Not rethinking what I'm doing, so much as how I'm doing it. When I started on rewriting, I picked evasion, and rewriting evasion was easy. Then I tried rewriting weapon and armor proficiencies, and it's more involved than I expected. Evasion was simple because it is narrow scope and has specific effect. Proficiency rules are scattered between feats and equipment rules...

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That took way too long to run down. But run it down I did. It works as intended, even if it's... verbose. Refactoring I talked in my last post about some refactoring I wanted to do. Polyhedron Tables Have Instructions This was a simple matter of some search and replace. A little funky, but not hard. &&polypanD4 |1 @addEntry{ppDeityDomain}{1}{1}\ @addEntry{ppDeityDomain}{1}{5}\ @addEntry{ppDeityDomain}{1}{6}\ @addEntry{ppDeityDomain}{1}{7} |1 @addEntry{ppDeityDomain}{1}{2}\ @addEntry{ppDeityDomain}{1}{5}\ @addEntry{ppDeityDomain}{1}{6}\ @addEntry{ppDeityDomain}{1}{8}

Random table roller is getting weirdly powerful, and I'm loving that. With the recent changes I now have the ability to manipulate table entries. Hmm... I haven't touched on modifying an entry, or inserting in arbitrary locations. Maybe later. Anyway, what I do now have is the ability to treat a 'table' something like a deck of cards. That is, so each entry can be selected no more than one time.

Yet more new tricks! A few days ago I added Seventh Sanctum functions to append to or replace tables. Today I added some other functions. addEntry appends a new entry to the table, with weight and optional mask. This entry is added as plain text and is not resolved when added. It will be resolved when the table is called later.