Andrew Thaler
Thirteen years ago, Kersey, Russell, and I set out on a quixotic quest to create a low-cost, open-source CTD for marine scientist and ocean knowledge seekers. The premise was simple: if the Ocean Belongs to Everyone, then the tools to study the ocean should be available to anyone. The OpenCTD was...
Akaash Maharaj
ALTWith the Crew of Artemis III thank Space Canada and the Canadian Space Agency for inviting me to...
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Less Combat ... More Obstacles I’ve been talking about dungeon crawling as a play style here for years, and I’m not alone among RPG bloggers to do so. Most of the points All Dead Generations focuses on, such as the importance of turnkeeping, supply mechanics, random encounters, navigating...
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You want to run a “Dungeon Crawl” adventure… Not just an adventure in a "dungeon", but a Dungeon Crawl - that distinct, classic mode of RPG play about exploring a fantastical space, obtaining its treasures, and unraveling its secrets ... while surviving its dangers. Notably, the first rule of...
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Gary Gygax is probably the best known name in Role Playing Games -- still, nearly 15 years after his death. Considered Dungeons & Dragons’ co-inventor and principal author of most of its early material, “Uncle Gary” was also a tireless promoter of his game and of role playing games as a...
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Crawling Down From 1974“Dungeon crawl” has entered the popular lexicon as a description of any sort of adventure in an underground or ruinous space. It’s a common way to describe video games and occasionally other forms of media such as a part of novels or movies. Of course it’s most common in...
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Character Generation and House Rules for My Home GameI'm going to be running a Crystal Frontier game online, the first semi-public game I've run since the end of G+. In preparation rather then introduce my house rules piecemeal I've prepared a character generation and basic rules document for the...
Yoel Zeldes
This is a joint post with Inbar Naor. Originally published at engineering.taboola.com. Now that we know what uncertainty types exist and learned some ways to model them, we can start talking about how to use them in our application. In this post we’ll introduce the exploration-exploitation...