Today we’ll look at why a recording of your game session’s audio is the perfect game master’s tool. Capturing gameplay has many benefits. Automated Note Capturing – your audio recording is almost like having a personal assistant to take notes of everything you missed during the game session. Now you don’t have to worry about…
My NaMuBuMo Experience
I stopped working on the game engine’s hardcode changes for the month of October to build a world instead. Since all of my Alpha One content has been scrapped (it served its purpose and generated a lot of feedback), I needed to build a game world for the upcoming Alpha Two testing. I stuck to…
Why Dawn of Time Is Great for Builders
If you’re still shopping for a MUD codebase to get started on your world-building project for National Mud Builder’s Month, look no further. I’m going to introduce you into the shiniest of the ol’ crusty Diku’s out there. Dawn of Time may have very old-school roots, but it was improved upon lovingly for years by…
Melissa’s Secret Method for Naming Fantasy Characters
Around 2003 or 2004 I met a gamemaster in Pennsylvania named Tonya. Whenever players at her table struggled to come up with character names she would pull out her secret tool – The Baby Naming Book. Inside this little book were thousands of names sorted alphabetically, separated by gender, tagged by the origin and the…
Snippet – Random Weapon Generator
This snippet (compatible with the latest version S of Dawn of Time) will allow you to have mobs load up a random weapon through use of a MUDprog like this: mob random_weapon wield all
5 Things I Learned From My First Alpha Test
Alpha Test One for Lands of Oneiro just wrapped up. It was four days of fun, excitement, and nerve-wracking anxiety. I had set the deadline for the first alpha test at only 2 months into the project with the hopes that having a hard date would keep me motivated. I believe it worked, that I…