Dev log 2023
12/21/2023 I really do aapologize for the lack of updates on World Anvil! I have been working on my games, honest! I have just been sidetracked from updating them...here. I have working so very focused on the chracter sheet. Such a learning process! So many formulas and then tying them all together. Such a work! I have also compiled the basic players books for so many topics! Essence Companion, Mentalism Companion, Channeling Companion, and Arcane Companion. Now, please remember that the3se are already published books an dI am doing data entry for my game and incorporating only the parts that I will be using. It is just a long process as I am new to the whole MASSIVE data entry thing. heh! I am a swift learner, though!
11/05/2023 Holy Cow!!!! 3 months have gone by since I updated aanything on World Anvil!!! This doesn't mean that I wasn't creating, I simply wasn't posting anything on here! So much has been updated! Most all of my books have had MAJOR, MAJOR data entered and then overhauled. The charater sheet I am using on Google Sheets has had MAJOR renovations, including autofil for several character creation processes. Lastly, I have been running a test game with some experienced players. It is slow going. They appear to be stuck on a DnD or Pathfinder mindset. This is not that animal. lol
08/06/2023 Wowza! yes, i took a break from updating here, but i was super, super busy on data entry and world building on my VTTRPG! I have been uploading my journals and maps onto Roll20. It looks very good, and I have much room to grow still! the Essence Companion has made great leaps and is almost done! It is a compilation of all of the rules of Essence and the Professions which rely upon it. I have also made progress upon the Equipment companion, skills, and professions.
6/03/2023 I know, I know!! I took a long break!! I was working on the Essence companion in the background and have not updated anything here in a pretty long time! However, I updated the world map yesterday to the newer version as well as a description for the future plans for it and its growth! Look forward to that, ok!!
5/08/2023 I have been taking a break! I have done a little bit, not worth mentioning tho! I do feel that it is time to get back to work and get more data entry done! I have such ideas for adding my own flair to my world! I just need to get the data entry finished! This world has so much potential to tell stories in! I am looking forward to it! I posted a survey for my potential players to vote for campaign and adventure ideas. It went well and I have it saved for use later. Take care and i will post again soon. Hopefully with some work done!
4/21/2023 Whoa! I missed a few days! Sorry! With school going for me, that is my priority. It has to be. However, I did get quite a bit of the Essence book of magic data entered. I will see how much I can get done through the weekend. Lastly, the coding work for the Player's Guidebook is taking so long as I have nearly reached the capacity of the site to handle a single document. So, everytime I do any coding or updating, it makes me wait as it slowly processes everything. lol. I will get there eventually...I think!
4/07/2023 alright! I am back in the saddle again. I added several pages to the Essence book and did some coding for the World Anvil version of my Player's Guidebook. Not a stellar amount, but it is better than nothing! I also posted a survey for what types of adventures people may want in my game.
4/06/2023 I have been working on adding content to the Esssence book and adding the coding to make the big blob of the Player's Guidebook look like intelligent paragraphs. I have also been thinking about adding the rules to my adventure. It would be interesting. I may or may not. It depends on how much time I have available.
4/02/2023 SO, i have been working on my game, just not updating. Sorry! I have been busy working on The book for Essence spell users. Also, creating the partitions for my Player's Guidebook here on World Anvil. Lastly, Once Adventure April opened up and they set out the rules, I got busy on writing my very first adventure for my game!!! The Great Bake Off! It is still rough, yet. I need to go through and begin adding system information such as rules and difficulty levels. The rules for team skill usage DEFINITELY come in handy in this competition adventure!! Keep an eye out for it as i work out the details!
3/27/2023 Well! I have found (and keep finding) areas that need correcting in the Player's Guidebook. But, that's ok. I have still pasted it into World Anvil. Then I had to remove some of the special symbols or it wouldn't save!! That was fun. Now, I am going through and adding columns and sentence breaks to restore the viewing quality of the original Document. lol. It is so much fun! I am taking a break for the night. It is super late! G'night!
3/24/2023 I have been moving data into the Appendices. Not too much work really, just highly repetitive. But, as long as I am moving forward, I don't really feel the need to complain! Not too much longer before I can copy/paste into here! Then add the spacings and columns via coding.
3/22/2023 I have been cleaning up the Player's Guidebook. Moving things that actually belong in one of the Appendices into the Appendices! Not too hard, just boring and repetitive. Things are looking much more professional and streamlined, too!
3/19/2023 Alright! I have made some progress that is universal to all the spell books, intros, symbols used in the system, etc. Then I will copy paste those pages into each book from the one page I am working on. then go into the specific books specific information. I have greatly expanded the Death, Injury and Healing section of the Player's Guidebook. It should be so much more helpful. I am not sure, but I may wait to expand the rules on preserving/preparing foods and herbs, etc or should I make it its own section? It does have a large enough amount of information that it would be useful by itself, rather than taking up Skill description space. Ya know, make a link and say if curious...
3/17/2023 I have made a great progress forward! Only three of the additional sections that i wanted to get out of the core rule book to go! I have been skimming a little between data entry, there may not really be a WHOLE lot of data entry left to do. The Realms of magic expansion books generally have some additional rules or addendums that would be nice to double check. The greatest majority of their data will be relegated to that specific book as I write it. The people reviewing my Player's Guidebook have voted on which Appendix I will begin to work on next. It will be magic with Equipment right after that.
3/15/2023 School started and everything for the game now has to take a back burner. I am still doing data entry as described below, just not as much or as long. It is nine months that I need to dedicate to. SO, I have been working on Health, injuries and death. I was goign to edit out some information, such as Soul Withering, but i figured that even illiterate low education people would have some idea of the dangers of being arond undead. They "live" in the environment, right?
3/11/2023 Going through, book by book and modifying the rules that i am using until the guidebook has all the rules and adjustments that i will be using in my game. I am hoping, intending on, a one stop shop for rules to make it easy for the players to learn and access information. This will take a couple of days, but it is well worth it.
3/10/2023 I HAVE FINALLY DONE IT! I completed the Player's Guidebook core rules!! Next, i am going through and compiling and doing data entry from all the companion and expansion books! That really shouldn't be too hard or take too much time. I am hoping!
3/09/2023 Doing well with the time i have. Almost done with Section 26.+. Pretty straight forward aside from two huge charts. I will have that done tonight in no time. The framework is almost done already on the last chart. Off I go!!
3/08/2023 Hey!! I am pretty sure that I can complete section 25.+ tonight! WOOHOO!! That just leaves Sections 26.+ - 28.+. Those Sections aren't long, they all have at least one chart in them. I believe that i have mentioned that charts eat up a lot of time? they do.
3/06/2023 Going strong! I looked ahead and it all seems to be brief descriptions and paragraphs. I am feeling a bit of strain from working and may take a couple of days off, though I probably won't. I have a major thing coming up that will be eating most if not all of my free time. It is 9 or so months long. Explains why I have been really pushing this, doesn't it?
3/05/2023 Well, did great today. The end of 25.4 is a big table of Offensive Capabilities. That is what stuck me up today. I am about halfway through it. But, I have some other things I need to get done. SO, I am off for the night!
03/04/2023 Phew~! I have been busting my hump today! 25.+ isn't too hard to do, really. Just so many topics to cover (after the special symbols of doom!!). There are a couple of tables to put together, but they only slow me down for a little bit. I am about 3/4 the way done with 25.2.+. 26.0+ is Static Maneuvers, which seems to be small, but with a big table. 27.0+ is Moving Maneuvers, more special symbols (grumble) and a table. 28.0+ is Casting Spells, and two big tables. then the Player's Guidebook will be completed except for the Appendices. I have a survey going for which Appendix to do first, second, etc.
3/03/2023 Wowza! I finished almost the entire 25.1!! With all of those special symbols!! I may even be able to finish them tonight! It is 7:46pm when I type this, so it is possible! The next time that I use them, I should be able to just copy/paste them from that section. WOOHOO! (Edit) I did it!! I finished that section 25.1!! 25.2 isn't so bad, as far as my quick scan tells me. Mostly definitions and a couple of tables. 25.2: Defensive Capabilities.
3/02/2023 I did work on it yesterday...sort of. Very piddly. I got the opening to Section 25 completed and have started 25.1. This section is two complete pages full in a double column format. YIKES!! It also has a ton of special symbols. I will have to try to look them up. Google Docs has a draw function when looking up special symbols. I will give it a shot as I have my drawing tablet set up and going. That should help. lol Also, March doesn't have a World Anvil competition, so it is just pure development and data entry. April has a content challenge, so i will be trying to do that in addition to my normal data entry and development. Lastly, i will be busy for a few (9) months and that will DEFINITELY eat into my free time. I must make the most of any free time i have. Please forgive any lagging behind that occurs. I am sorry.
2/27/2023 I took a day off. I needed it. 25 is going to be a beast, so a day of rest is called for. Tomorrow, we begin again!
2/26/2023 WOO HOO~! I finally finished Section 24!!! It. Just. Kept. Coming! Then i finished it and that is over with. Phew~! I took a peak at Section 25. It is WAY worse than 24. heh heh heh (breaks down crying) 25 has tons of topics to cover. Also, it has a T O N of special symbols. I do not know if they will even appear here when I copy/paste!! 25 is all about Attack and Defense. So, you can imagine that it will be detailed and that means a lot of data entry. *Be strong, Brave Soldier*
2/24/2023 So much has been accomplished! I am working on Section 23.+ out of 28.+!! These are mostly a series of paragraphs fleshing out actions or behaviors. Then there is a section on gear and finally spells and spell casting. Imma trying, guys! Imma trying! I would really love to at least get through section 25.+ by the end of the weekend.
2/21/2023 I almost didn't do any data entry tonight. Was feeling ill. I did eventually, anyway. IT was worth it. I made a nice chunk of data entry. From what I have done thus far, it should be fairly quick to get to the end. I think it will depend mainly on how many data tables I have to input. Well, I am tired as heck. Have a good night!
2/20/2023 I have begun the final Section, Section IV: Activities and resolving them. I am so glad to finally make it to this Section!!! It is, as you may guess, quite large! Upon a cursory glance, the sections seem short with simple descriptions and explanations. Just a lot of them. Which is fine and good. I already have the intro to the section data entered. Let's keep the ball rolling while we still have steam, right!!!
2/18/2023 Well, I made it to the end of Section 19.+!! I am so happy! That is the end of Part III. Part IV is about the Actions and performing them in the Rolemaster Standard System. That should be fun...I think. I haven't looked that far forward into that part of the book and can't remember exactly how it lays out for data entry. There could be quite a bit as there are quite a few actions recognized!
2/17/2023 Phew! I have been busy! I am basically finished with Section 17.+. I just need to double check to see if I missed anything. That means I can begin Section 18 out of ~28!!! These seem to be mostly just a series of short paragraphs rehashing the character creation process. Section 18.+ is about the character's role and is super short. Section 19.+ is Final Character Preparation. Basically, calculations and formulas. I hope to have these preprogrammed into the character sheet for the players. Part IV is about Performing Actions and seems to be fairly straightforward. Have a good day/afternoon/evening/night! (needs a break...)
2/14/2023 Happy Valentine's Day! I have officially begun data entry for Section III: Designing a Character. It doesn't seem to be too hard, just quite a few small paragraphs giving a brief description of each step in the process. An easy, slow walk through. But I have just begun. It may get more challenging as we progress. Added later: So, I do not believe that this will be a difficult section. i have already completed several areas. I will most likely wait until I have completed everything before i add the coding to make it a actual Player's Guidebook and not a blob of text. heh! Why repeat the process over and over again, right?
2/12/2023 Holy cow!! Where did three days go! Well, I have been busy playing with the token maker. Today and yesterday, i have really busted down and returned to data entry. I had thought that I as done with Sections I and II. I was about to begin Section III (out of IV) and decided to go back and double check the previous sections and found some major gaps in my information. Ugh! So, I am going through and double checking everything and doing data entry for what I had forgotten to do. Poop. Anyway, those two sections are going to be very thoroughly complete now! lol! Sad part is, that I have to go through several books and enter all the rules that I will be utilizing for my game. One book at a time! So, even after the main rules are applied, I have to go through the supplements and see what I am using from them and update the book again! Yay! At least right now, i am gung-ho into the data entry, right?
2/9/2023 WOO HOO~! I found a great token creator that is free! So, I made almost the entire line up of races and professions for advent today! I am just missing the Taru-taru set. Then I am going to go back and create tokens of just faces, for those who want a more simple token. Doing all the modifying and saving and then token creation takes about 30 minutes or so for a set with two genders. The single gender tokens only take a couple of minutes. Then, it will be off to do some more data entry for the Player's Guidebook.
2/8/2023 Mostly a lazy day. I added a couple of professions names nto the directory, but I haven't done any creation or data entry aside from their names: Ninja, Beastmaster, Blue Mage, Corsair, Dancer, Geomancer, Necromancer. I believe that is all of them. Not to worry too much, I have all of their design notes, except for training package costs. I still have to figure those out. Lastly, I got out my notes for creature stat blocks, I just didn't do any data entry. I should do something more to work on the Bestiary February challenge.
2/7/2023 Did quite a bit of work today. Adding data to my Google Docs and then copy/pasting it here. It took several attempts to get updates to the correct games. Then, for some unknown reason, the site or my internet went down and I couldn't save. Ugh. It finally did save, but a few hours later. I am going through and at least adding in the line breaks so as to turn the text into paragraphs and sentences. lol. I am almost done with Section 10.+. Just 2 or 3 more paragraphs. Then to read ahead in the next section to determine what I am keeping.
2/5/2023 I have finally updated the Player's Guidebook. I am doing some basic coding, entering the paragraph breaks. If I don't, the words just create a constant flow of data without a format. I will continue to complete the Google Docs version, too. That is where I do most of my work before copy/pasting into World Anvil. I need to create a Stat block for creatures so as to be able to complete the Bestiary February competition. I am finding that I enjoy these competitions. They are a ncie distraction that also encourages a creator to work on a different topic for a bit. Creative Calisthenics.
2/4/2023 I have been working on the Bestiary February competition and have the layout for the Creatures and monsters book down. Now i can actually set down the data block format for creatures and monsters. Also, Updated the index for the Player's Guide. That means that I have to go back through and add the linkages again and formating codes. lol! Wheeee~! 2/2/2023 February has a great competition: Bestiary February! I will need to do this at some point in the future, anyway! I won't be exclusive on the topic, so don't worry! I will still continue to move the rest forward! That does remind me, I need to go and make sure that World Anvil reflects the current development of my creation site. That will mean a bit of double checking and copy/pasting from my Dev site. Check back soon!
1/30/2023 I took a day off and it was nice to do so! I didn't do much yesterday, but on a wild hair, I got the coding for the weight and encumbrance of coins on the character sheet to function! WOOHOO! I fully plan on finishing the last section of Part II of the Player's Guide today. My goal at least...
1/27/2028 I did do updates yesterday! I swear!
No, really. I did a lot of cosmetic adjustments, such as renumbering sections since I had added some more info to certain sections. I have Section 8.0 ready, though I believe it is now numbered Section 10.0. That can be worked on tomorrow while in between laundry sessions.
1/25/2023 Finished Section 6.0 and 7.0. Did some cosmetic work on the guidebook. It is starting to get big. Hrm... I will continue to add to it. As needed, I will include separate information as a linked in book.
1/24/2023 So, I buckled down and really put time into the Skills section, Section 6.0. I am so close to being done! Hrm...I should find the next thing to work on, shouldn't I? I will give a look and see what else sounds promising: I think Section 8.0 would be nice. It explains quite a bit of the formulas for Hp, PP, EXHP, etc.
1/23/023 Not too much to report today, sorry! I DID finish Section 9.0. Then I cleaned up a couple of other Sections. Mostly cosmetic stuff, but i didn't really want to did into Section 6.0 (???) Skills and Skill Categories right away. It is going to be me doing a lot of data entry for more than a day or so. Ther ecould be 1000 skills. I am not sure! Everything is a skill in this system!! lol. The skills are pretty mighty in the game, so they needed to get completed at some point, right? Probably get started tomorrow, if i don't take a personal day...
1/22/2023 Alright! I have finished section 1.0 and am almost done with section 9.0. I am thinking that i will focus on the skills section which i do not recall it's numbering system at this time. It is H U G E, so i will be on it for some time. Wish me luck! I will keep you posted as I go along! See you then!
1/21/2023 Yesterday, i started the Section 1.0 of the guidebook. I finished all the components to it today. It took a little longer than I thought! Oh, well. My typing skills are getting quite the workout! I am getting better and faster. I am now working on Section 9.0, A Character's Role. This should be a good section for the players. A lot of background, alignments, personality traits and roleplaying tips.
1/19/2023 I had some other things to do today, so I took it off for the most part. I feel good about it, so I must have needed to do so. I have the last two origin pages set out for me to data enter. Should be brief. More votes have been coming into my development survey. That is great!
1/18/2023 Only two Origins Locations left to do. Only one vote on the Survey for the next development. It is looking like a simple beginning article for the introduction of the Player's Guidebook. Something light and simple like that should be refreshing to do. Laid out some basic indexes for the next books. I am going to stay focused on getting all of the Player's Guidebook completed before really sinking my teeth into the others. Definitely the Skills and Spells section is going to eat my time for a serious period of time. I can guarantee that! It would be so nice to have them done though! Wrote a Introductory short story as an introduction to the game. Worked on the meta's for game, too.
1/17/2023 I have begun to finish the Origins Locations section. This won't take me very long to do. While I am doing that, as a bit of a breather from those, I have begun to do the initial set up for GM Guide, Creatures and Monsters, and I will begin Equipment guide. the Spells Books are already laid out, but the Surveys are saying the players would be more interested in more foundational topics, at this time.
1/14/2023 I finished the last of the professions from the books this morning. There are a few that I personally wrote based on Canon FFXI professions that weren't represented in the books. i will put them in soon. I think I need a break for the rest of the day! Staying busy can burn you out if there is no time off for personal things!
1/13/2023 I have been adding the Spell Lists to the professions. It isn't hard at all. Refreshing to go over them again. however, it CAN be somewhat tedious. I made the template for them, and the copy/paste part is over. Now it is just the profession specifics! I have 13 professions left to do out of 47! I am not sure I wil be able to complete them tonight, but boy-howdy do I want to! heh heh heh
1/12/2023 I didn't get as much accomplished as I had hoped. Though I have a very good Spell List design set up to let player's know what spells a profession has. It is gathered and refined from all the Rolemaster Standard Rules books.
1/11/2023 Completed the Special Skills section of all of the Professions yesterday. I am going to add the Spell Descriptions to the Professions now. Lastly, i still need to add in a few Homebrew Professions that I translated from the FFXI video game that weren't represented in the Rolemaster Standard Rules books. that will be today and maybe another day. It shouldn't take long.
1/10/2023 While I have been working very studiously, I have NOT been keeping a Dev log! I apologize! I will make an effort from this day forward to do so!
I am exceptionally happy to announce that the Professions from the Rolemaster Standard Rules books are nearly finished! I have only the Special Skills sections to complete. That should be done in the next day or so.
The poll is still running at this time until the 15th of January, 2023. The topic is the next area of the game to work on and get finished.
5/08/2023 I have been taking a break! I have done a little bit, not worth mentioning tho! I do feel that it is time to get back to work and get more data entry done! I have such ideas for adding my own flair to my world! I just need to get the data entry finished! This world has so much potential to tell stories in! I am looking forward to it! I posted a survey for my potential players to vote for campaign and adventure ideas. It went well and I have it saved for use later. Take care and i will post again soon. Hopefully with some work done!
4/21/2023 Whoa! I missed a few days! Sorry! With school going for me, that is my priority. It has to be. However, I did get quite a bit of the Essence book of magic data entered. I will see how much I can get done through the weekend. Lastly, the coding work for the Player's Guidebook is taking so long as I have nearly reached the capacity of the site to handle a single document. So, everytime I do any coding or updating, it makes me wait as it slowly processes everything. lol. I will get there eventually...I think!
4/07/2023 alright! I am back in the saddle again. I added several pages to the Essence book and did some coding for the World Anvil version of my Player's Guidebook. Not a stellar amount, but it is better than nothing! I also posted a survey for what types of adventures people may want in my game.
4/06/2023 I have been working on adding content to the Esssence book and adding the coding to make the big blob of the Player's Guidebook look like intelligent paragraphs. I have also been thinking about adding the rules to my adventure. It would be interesting. I may or may not. It depends on how much time I have available.
4/02/2023 SO, i have been working on my game, just not updating. Sorry! I have been busy working on The book for Essence spell users. Also, creating the partitions for my Player's Guidebook here on World Anvil. Lastly, Once Adventure April opened up and they set out the rules, I got busy on writing my very first adventure for my game!!! The Great Bake Off! It is still rough, yet. I need to go through and begin adding system information such as rules and difficulty levels. The rules for team skill usage DEFINITELY come in handy in this competition adventure!! Keep an eye out for it as i work out the details!
3/27/2023 Well! I have found (and keep finding) areas that need correcting in the Player's Guidebook. But, that's ok. I have still pasted it into World Anvil. Then I had to remove some of the special symbols or it wouldn't save!! That was fun. Now, I am going through and adding columns and sentence breaks to restore the viewing quality of the original Document. lol. It is so much fun! I am taking a break for the night. It is super late! G'night!
3/24/2023 I have been moving data into the Appendices. Not too much work really, just highly repetitive. But, as long as I am moving forward, I don't really feel the need to complain! Not too much longer before I can copy/paste into here! Then add the spacings and columns via coding.
3/22/2023 I have been cleaning up the Player's Guidebook. Moving things that actually belong in one of the Appendices into the Appendices! Not too hard, just boring and repetitive. Things are looking much more professional and streamlined, too!
3/19/2023 Alright! I have made some progress that is universal to all the spell books, intros, symbols used in the system, etc. Then I will copy paste those pages into each book from the one page I am working on. then go into the specific books specific information. I have greatly expanded the Death, Injury and Healing section of the Player's Guidebook. It should be so much more helpful. I am not sure, but I may wait to expand the rules on preserving/preparing foods and herbs, etc or should I make it its own section? It does have a large enough amount of information that it would be useful by itself, rather than taking up Skill description space. Ya know, make a link and say if curious...
3/17/2023 I have made a great progress forward! Only three of the additional sections that i wanted to get out of the core rule book to go! I have been skimming a little between data entry, there may not really be a WHOLE lot of data entry left to do. The Realms of magic expansion books generally have some additional rules or addendums that would be nice to double check. The greatest majority of their data will be relegated to that specific book as I write it. The people reviewing my Player's Guidebook have voted on which Appendix I will begin to work on next. It will be magic with Equipment right after that.
3/15/2023 School started and everything for the game now has to take a back burner. I am still doing data entry as described below, just not as much or as long. It is nine months that I need to dedicate to. SO, I have been working on Health, injuries and death. I was goign to edit out some information, such as Soul Withering, but i figured that even illiterate low education people would have some idea of the dangers of being arond undead. They "live" in the environment, right?
3/11/2023 Going through, book by book and modifying the rules that i am using until the guidebook has all the rules and adjustments that i will be using in my game. I am hoping, intending on, a one stop shop for rules to make it easy for the players to learn and access information. This will take a couple of days, but it is well worth it.
3/10/2023 I HAVE FINALLY DONE IT! I completed the Player's Guidebook core rules!! Next, i am going through and compiling and doing data entry from all the companion and expansion books! That really shouldn't be too hard or take too much time. I am hoping!
3/09/2023 Doing well with the time i have. Almost done with Section 26.+. Pretty straight forward aside from two huge charts. I will have that done tonight in no time. The framework is almost done already on the last chart. Off I go!!
3/08/2023 Hey!! I am pretty sure that I can complete section 25.+ tonight! WOOHOO!! That just leaves Sections 26.+ - 28.+. Those Sections aren't long, they all have at least one chart in them. I believe that i have mentioned that charts eat up a lot of time? they do.
3/06/2023 Going strong! I looked ahead and it all seems to be brief descriptions and paragraphs. I am feeling a bit of strain from working and may take a couple of days off, though I probably won't. I have a major thing coming up that will be eating most if not all of my free time. It is 9 or so months long. Explains why I have been really pushing this, doesn't it?
3/05/2023 Well, did great today. The end of 25.4 is a big table of Offensive Capabilities. That is what stuck me up today. I am about halfway through it. But, I have some other things I need to get done. SO, I am off for the night!
03/04/2023 Phew~! I have been busting my hump today! 25.+ isn't too hard to do, really. Just so many topics to cover (after the special symbols of doom!!). There are a couple of tables to put together, but they only slow me down for a little bit. I am about 3/4 the way done with 25.2.+. 26.0+ is Static Maneuvers, which seems to be small, but with a big table. 27.0+ is Moving Maneuvers, more special symbols (grumble) and a table. 28.0+ is Casting Spells, and two big tables. then the Player's Guidebook will be completed except for the Appendices. I have a survey going for which Appendix to do first, second, etc.
3/03/2023 Wowza! I finished almost the entire 25.1!! With all of those special symbols!! I may even be able to finish them tonight! It is 7:46pm when I type this, so it is possible! The next time that I use them, I should be able to just copy/paste them from that section. WOOHOO! (Edit) I did it!! I finished that section 25.1!! 25.2 isn't so bad, as far as my quick scan tells me. Mostly definitions and a couple of tables. 25.2: Defensive Capabilities.
3/02/2023 I did work on it yesterday...sort of. Very piddly. I got the opening to Section 25 completed and have started 25.1. This section is two complete pages full in a double column format. YIKES!! It also has a ton of special symbols. I will have to try to look them up. Google Docs has a draw function when looking up special symbols. I will give it a shot as I have my drawing tablet set up and going. That should help. lol Also, March doesn't have a World Anvil competition, so it is just pure development and data entry. April has a content challenge, so i will be trying to do that in addition to my normal data entry and development. Lastly, i will be busy for a few (9) months and that will DEFINITELY eat into my free time. I must make the most of any free time i have. Please forgive any lagging behind that occurs. I am sorry.
2/27/2023 I took a day off. I needed it. 25 is going to be a beast, so a day of rest is called for. Tomorrow, we begin again!
2/26/2023 WOO HOO~! I finally finished Section 24!!! It. Just. Kept. Coming! Then i finished it and that is over with. Phew~! I took a peak at Section 25. It is WAY worse than 24. heh heh heh (breaks down crying) 25 has tons of topics to cover. Also, it has a T O N of special symbols. I do not know if they will even appear here when I copy/paste!! 25 is all about Attack and Defense. So, you can imagine that it will be detailed and that means a lot of data entry. *Be strong, Brave Soldier*
2/24/2023 So much has been accomplished! I am working on Section 23.+ out of 28.+!! These are mostly a series of paragraphs fleshing out actions or behaviors. Then there is a section on gear and finally spells and spell casting. Imma trying, guys! Imma trying! I would really love to at least get through section 25.+ by the end of the weekend.
2/21/2023 I almost didn't do any data entry tonight. Was feeling ill. I did eventually, anyway. IT was worth it. I made a nice chunk of data entry. From what I have done thus far, it should be fairly quick to get to the end. I think it will depend mainly on how many data tables I have to input. Well, I am tired as heck. Have a good night!
2/20/2023 I have begun the final Section, Section IV: Activities and resolving them. I am so glad to finally make it to this Section!!! It is, as you may guess, quite large! Upon a cursory glance, the sections seem short with simple descriptions and explanations. Just a lot of them. Which is fine and good. I already have the intro to the section data entered. Let's keep the ball rolling while we still have steam, right!!!
2/18/2023 Well, I made it to the end of Section 19.+!! I am so happy! That is the end of Part III. Part IV is about the Actions and performing them in the Rolemaster Standard System. That should be fun...I think. I haven't looked that far forward into that part of the book and can't remember exactly how it lays out for data entry. There could be quite a bit as there are quite a few actions recognized!
2/17/2023 Phew! I have been busy! I am basically finished with Section 17.+. I just need to double check to see if I missed anything. That means I can begin Section 18 out of ~28!!! These seem to be mostly just a series of short paragraphs rehashing the character creation process. Section 18.+ is about the character's role and is super short. Section 19.+ is Final Character Preparation. Basically, calculations and formulas. I hope to have these preprogrammed into the character sheet for the players. Part IV is about Performing Actions and seems to be fairly straightforward. Have a good day/afternoon/evening/night! (needs a break...)
2/14/2023 Happy Valentine's Day! I have officially begun data entry for Section III: Designing a Character. It doesn't seem to be too hard, just quite a few small paragraphs giving a brief description of each step in the process. An easy, slow walk through. But I have just begun. It may get more challenging as we progress. Added later: So, I do not believe that this will be a difficult section. i have already completed several areas. I will most likely wait until I have completed everything before i add the coding to make it a actual Player's Guidebook and not a blob of text. heh! Why repeat the process over and over again, right?
2/12/2023 Holy cow!! Where did three days go! Well, I have been busy playing with the token maker. Today and yesterday, i have really busted down and returned to data entry. I had thought that I as done with Sections I and II. I was about to begin Section III (out of IV) and decided to go back and double check the previous sections and found some major gaps in my information. Ugh! So, I am going through and double checking everything and doing data entry for what I had forgotten to do. Poop. Anyway, those two sections are going to be very thoroughly complete now! lol! Sad part is, that I have to go through several books and enter all the rules that I will be utilizing for my game. One book at a time! So, even after the main rules are applied, I have to go through the supplements and see what I am using from them and update the book again! Yay! At least right now, i am gung-ho into the data entry, right?
2/9/2023 WOO HOO~! I found a great token creator that is free! So, I made almost the entire line up of races and professions for advent today! I am just missing the Taru-taru set. Then I am going to go back and create tokens of just faces, for those who want a more simple token. Doing all the modifying and saving and then token creation takes about 30 minutes or so for a set with two genders. The single gender tokens only take a couple of minutes. Then, it will be off to do some more data entry for the Player's Guidebook.
2/8/2023 Mostly a lazy day. I added a couple of professions names nto the directory, but I haven't done any creation or data entry aside from their names: Ninja, Beastmaster, Blue Mage, Corsair, Dancer, Geomancer, Necromancer. I believe that is all of them. Not to worry too much, I have all of their design notes, except for training package costs. I still have to figure those out. Lastly, I got out my notes for creature stat blocks, I just didn't do any data entry. I should do something more to work on the Bestiary February challenge.
2/7/2023 Did quite a bit of work today. Adding data to my Google Docs and then copy/pasting it here. It took several attempts to get updates to the correct games. Then, for some unknown reason, the site or my internet went down and I couldn't save. Ugh. It finally did save, but a few hours later. I am going through and at least adding in the line breaks so as to turn the text into paragraphs and sentences. lol. I am almost done with Section 10.+. Just 2 or 3 more paragraphs. Then to read ahead in the next section to determine what I am keeping.
2/5/2023 I have finally updated the Player's Guidebook. I am doing some basic coding, entering the paragraph breaks. If I don't, the words just create a constant flow of data without a format. I will continue to complete the Google Docs version, too. That is where I do most of my work before copy/pasting into World Anvil. I need to create a Stat block for creatures so as to be able to complete the Bestiary February competition. I am finding that I enjoy these competitions. They are a ncie distraction that also encourages a creator to work on a different topic for a bit. Creative Calisthenics.
2/4/2023 I have been working on the Bestiary February competition and have the layout for the Creatures and monsters book down. Now i can actually set down the data block format for creatures and monsters. Also, Updated the index for the Player's Guide. That means that I have to go back through and add the linkages again and formating codes. lol! Wheeee~! 2/2/2023 February has a great competition: Bestiary February! I will need to do this at some point in the future, anyway! I won't be exclusive on the topic, so don't worry! I will still continue to move the rest forward! That does remind me, I need to go and make sure that World Anvil reflects the current development of my creation site. That will mean a bit of double checking and copy/pasting from my Dev site. Check back soon!
1/30/2023 I took a day off and it was nice to do so! I didn't do much yesterday, but on a wild hair, I got the coding for the weight and encumbrance of coins on the character sheet to function! WOOHOO! I fully plan on finishing the last section of Part II of the Player's Guide today. My goal at least...
1/27/2028 I did do updates yesterday! I swear!
No, really. I did a lot of cosmetic adjustments, such as renumbering sections since I had added some more info to certain sections. I have Section 8.0 ready, though I believe it is now numbered Section 10.0. That can be worked on tomorrow while in between laundry sessions.
1/25/2023 Finished Section 6.0 and 7.0. Did some cosmetic work on the guidebook. It is starting to get big. Hrm... I will continue to add to it. As needed, I will include separate information as a linked in book.
1/24/2023 So, I buckled down and really put time into the Skills section, Section 6.0. I am so close to being done! Hrm...I should find the next thing to work on, shouldn't I? I will give a look and see what else sounds promising: I think Section 8.0 would be nice. It explains quite a bit of the formulas for Hp, PP, EXHP, etc.
1/23/023 Not too much to report today, sorry! I DID finish Section 9.0. Then I cleaned up a couple of other Sections. Mostly cosmetic stuff, but i didn't really want to did into Section 6.0 (???) Skills and Skill Categories right away. It is going to be me doing a lot of data entry for more than a day or so. Ther ecould be 1000 skills. I am not sure! Everything is a skill in this system!! lol. The skills are pretty mighty in the game, so they needed to get completed at some point, right? Probably get started tomorrow, if i don't take a personal day...
1/22/2023 Alright! I have finished section 1.0 and am almost done with section 9.0. I am thinking that i will focus on the skills section which i do not recall it's numbering system at this time. It is H U G E, so i will be on it for some time. Wish me luck! I will keep you posted as I go along! See you then!
1/21/2023 Yesterday, i started the Section 1.0 of the guidebook. I finished all the components to it today. It took a little longer than I thought! Oh, well. My typing skills are getting quite the workout! I am getting better and faster. I am now working on Section 9.0, A Character's Role. This should be a good section for the players. A lot of background, alignments, personality traits and roleplaying tips.
1/19/2023 I had some other things to do today, so I took it off for the most part. I feel good about it, so I must have needed to do so. I have the last two origin pages set out for me to data enter. Should be brief. More votes have been coming into my development survey. That is great!
1/18/2023 Only two Origins Locations left to do. Only one vote on the Survey for the next development. It is looking like a simple beginning article for the introduction of the Player's Guidebook. Something light and simple like that should be refreshing to do. Laid out some basic indexes for the next books. I am going to stay focused on getting all of the Player's Guidebook completed before really sinking my teeth into the others. Definitely the Skills and Spells section is going to eat my time for a serious period of time. I can guarantee that! It would be so nice to have them done though! Wrote a Introductory short story as an introduction to the game. Worked on the meta's for game, too.
1/17/2023 I have begun to finish the Origins Locations section. This won't take me very long to do. While I am doing that, as a bit of a breather from those, I have begun to do the initial set up for GM Guide, Creatures and Monsters, and I will begin Equipment guide. the Spells Books are already laid out, but the Surveys are saying the players would be more interested in more foundational topics, at this time.
1/14/2023 I finished the last of the professions from the books this morning. There are a few that I personally wrote based on Canon FFXI professions that weren't represented in the books. i will put them in soon. I think I need a break for the rest of the day! Staying busy can burn you out if there is no time off for personal things!
1/13/2023 I have been adding the Spell Lists to the professions. It isn't hard at all. Refreshing to go over them again. however, it CAN be somewhat tedious. I made the template for them, and the copy/paste part is over. Now it is just the profession specifics! I have 13 professions left to do out of 47! I am not sure I wil be able to complete them tonight, but boy-howdy do I want to! heh heh heh
1/12/2023 I didn't get as much accomplished as I had hoped. Though I have a very good Spell List design set up to let player's know what spells a profession has. It is gathered and refined from all the Rolemaster Standard Rules books.
1/11/2023 Completed the Special Skills section of all of the Professions yesterday. I am going to add the Spell Descriptions to the Professions now. Lastly, i still need to add in a few Homebrew Professions that I translated from the FFXI video game that weren't represented in the Rolemaster Standard Rules books. that will be today and maybe another day. It shouldn't take long.
1/10/2023 While I have been working very studiously, I have NOT been keeping a Dev log! I apologize! I will make an effort from this day forward to do so!
I am exceptionally happy to announce that the Professions from the Rolemaster Standard Rules books are nearly finished! I have only the Special Skills sections to complete. That should be done in the next day or so.
The poll is still running at this time until the 15th of January, 2023. The topic is the next area of the game to work on and get finished.
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