{"id":1639,"date":"2025-02-20T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:49:14","slug":"i-really-should-post-here-more-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/i-really-should-post-here-more-often\/","title":{"rendered":"I really should post here more often&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it has been over a year since I posted on this blog. Lately, I&#8217;ve been posting on X. Posts there coalesce then evaporate like smoke. Blogs are slightly more durable. It&#8217;s all just sand and fire, but sometimes leaves a lasting impression in the mind. And even this, too, only endures slightly longer.<\/p>\n<p>Work continues on <a href=\"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/category\/tabletop-gaming\/perennial-rpg\/atlantean-exodus\/\">Atlantean Exodus<\/a>. I&#8217;m on the third draft of the playtest material. The core of the game is the same. Some subsystems have been refined.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Levels have been eliminated in favor of more granular and organic advancement, including a character&#8217;s starting advances.<\/li>\n<li>Fortune has been replaced by <em>effort<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Make an effort by spending up to 3 vitality. Each vitality spent grants +1 advantage die (1d6).<br \/>\n(The resolution mechanic is 3d6+modifiers, rolling over a threshold number. Advantage dice are rolled in addition to the 3d6, keeping the three best die results.)<\/li>\n<li>The new effort system neatly ties into character advancement, ability masteries, exhaustion, injury, death, and other subsystems.<\/li>\n<li>Spiritism and other wonders in general are now more powerful, but have new tradeoffs for this power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there are a number of other changes that still need testing.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the scope of the game (multiple generations of characters traveling across the green Sahara) and limited time, I have started writing code to simulate characters and the caravan on their centuries-long journey. So far, I can generate rudimentary characters. The name generation is improving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/character-examples.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/character-examples.png?resize=625%2C217&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/character-examples.png?w=1122&amp;ssl=1 1122w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/character-examples.png?resize=300%2C104&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/character-examples.png?resize=1024%2C356&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/character-examples.png?resize=768%2C267&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/character-examples.png?resize=624%2C217&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More coaxing sand and fire into shape is needed. I&#8217;m a little rusty, not having coded for such a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it has been over a year since I posted on this blog. Lately, I&#8217;ve been posting on X. Posts there coalesce then evaporate like smoke. Blogs are slightly more durable. It&#8217;s all just sand and fire, but sometimes leaves a lasting impression in the mind. And even this, too, only endures slightly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantean-exodus","category-tabletop-gaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}