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Tri-Hex and other useful pieces

January 26, 2008 /

I like Chess variants a great deal. In fact, my wife bought me an Omega Chess set for Christmas. While there a couple months ago, I happened upon an invention by Graeme C Neatham. It is basically a variation of chess on a hexagonal board. No surprise, considering the link. The difference comes in splitting hexes into triads. Each triad has a different color.

Some time ago, I mentioned a hexagonal variation of Tactique. Seeing this board gave me all sorts of ideas. This also gave me ideas for using this type of hex paper for RPGs instead of traditional hex paper. For both, I hope to explore different ideas.

Here are the PDFs of a black and white version and the colorized version. What is different from Greame's design is that my hexes are not rotated 90 degress and the colors are different. I will also provide a hex shaped pdf soon. I realize that a hex shape is more conducive to board games.

Black and White Tri-Hexes | Color Tri-Hexes

Minimus Time

January 9, 2008 /

A friend sent me a link talking about a one page RPG. I'm not surprised by them as 1km1kt has a bunch of them.

However, the prospect of the rest of the players determining your stats is intriguing. Scott and I are going to try it out with two of his friends soon. (Yes, we paid the $2.) Check out the original post about Minimus here.

Here's the PDF. Free to download, requested $2 if you use it.

I'll let you know how it goes. Our campaign is similar to Golden Age Comics circa 1937. We plan on being mostly gadgeteers at this point, but who knows what five things I'll come up with. The first one is:

Henry (my character) was born in 1837 and fought in the Battle of Antietam for the Union.

Later Post

January 8, 2008 /

Turns out that I won't be making that post after all.

Yannick, the creator of yould liked my process enough to add another option to basic yould command.

To test the quality of any yould engine, type the following:
yould -t foo.yould -q

You will get a percentage of real words generated by the engine listed in the command. Anything under 10% will say that more training is needed. Between 10 and 20 % will say sufficient training. Over 20 will say well trained.

This option is in the 3.9 beta. It should be released soon.

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