See Writing Project -- perhaps a bad idea. I'm trying to dig around in my old notes to pull together a "World Book" with a fantasy setting I think has a lot of good gaming opportunities. I have a problem, though.

See Writing Project -- perhaps a bad idea. I'm trying to dig around in my old notes to pull together a "World Book" with a fantasy setting I think has a lot of good gaming opportunities. More important, I've got a pile of details for a fairly lengthy campaign.

This isn't …

I'm trying to push the envelope in my writing.

I write a fair amount of non-fiction. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4537706.Steven_F_Lott. This is a comfortable spot for me.

I've got some self-published titles:

• Pivot to Python: A Guide for Professionals and skilled beginners
• Unlearning SQL: “When your …

When playing a game using D6 -- and only D6 -- we're sometimes confronted with a need to make a selection from equiprobable items.

For example, pick a random day of the week: 7 choices, but only 6 sides to a die.

What can we do?

How can we select fairly among …

See https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json.

This content is human-generated. All the mistakes are mine, without the taint of AI slop.

I've added the needed human.json, and can update it if you want me to vouch for your content, also.

I went deep into OpenD6, chasing an idea through a maze of strange shapes.

See this extract from a Jupyter Notebook: Area Effect Aspect Volume Computations.

It was a lot of fun to uncover two errors in the rules, and work out what could have been used instead.

Maaike and Imke van Putten’s delightful Python Illustrated follows innocent Wiesje on a journey to learn the secrets only Zia seems to know. The journey is long and filled with discoveries about Python as well as the ways Wiesje needs to adapt and grow.

No, you’re not reading …

The OpenD6 Table-Top Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) has a complicated bit of accounting around the definition for magical spells and invocations. For me, the accounting suggested a need for software tools. This -- in turn -- forced me to invent a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) to work with OpenD6 spells.

I like the OpenD6 …

See The eval() Conundrum for background. Also, see https://github.com/slott56/writing-tools.

Permit me a long story about budgeting and a language to describe magic. The story leaves footprints that reveal the impossibility of making the right design choices up front.