I have (finally) released a usable DSL for OpenD6 spells and characters.

See the OpenD6 tag for a bunch of related content.

See https://github.com/slott56/opend6-tools for the final product.

I doubt there will ever be a PyPI package. For the few who want to use these tools …

See the OpenD6 tag for a bunch of related content. I have a DSL for OpenD6 spells and OpenD6 characters. At this moment, the test suite statistics are these:

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 …

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.

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.

Many people will proclaim that the eval() function is reprentnatly evil.

Feel free to skip the two rants.