User talk:Serpentine Cougar

2015-11-19: Nobreak incorporated into Cols template
2015-11-20: I replied to your reply, on the other page. (Whew! Abulafia may be great for some things … chatting, maybe not so much!)

CDD #4
Excited to see you creating pages from that wonderful resource! I actually printed out a hard copy from Kinko's. Looking forward to seeing more--maybe even a category so they can all be grouped?

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Fair enough--it is definitely the case that there's certain concepts where a half dozen different pages might already exist, and adding to the soup without something really striking and original probably doesn't help anybody.

I'll have to take a look--there's a few interesting tables that I'm not sure exist on Abulafia, if I remember correctly. The one I'm thinking of is the motivation or geas table, I think, where there's a number of verbs and then nouns--so you could need to protect love or destroy a monster. I should just take a look myself for inspiration--could probably use that in Rumors for the organization goals.

The other one I thought would be cool was the "What has this person been up to?" one, where through a series of rolls, you determine if an NPC gained a level, or found a treasure, or suffered loss or whatever in the time since you last encountered them.

Anyway, I really like that resource, so was excited to see it struck someone else as something fun and useful!

More Cent.Casting
Sorry I have few answers to your critiques. I've gotten rusty at programming. Task Force Games is out of business. So as far as I know, Cent.Casting is "abandonware"

My naming convention is only semi-consistent. I only wanted the main page, not the sub tables, to be on the opening Categories of Abulafia.

I also appreciate the Sci-Fi and Modern books, but they are on the back burner.

Why multiple pages ? I wanted to get subsections working on their own. I felt each section should have its own wrinkles ironed out. I do not know the "page size limits" on Abulafia.

Some people have attempted to do Cent.Casting before. Here's my feedback:

1. They seem to have attempted to "exactly" emulate the flow of the book. So if the chart says to "re-roll and combine" they did also. I want to get it working first, then fold that idea in later. Tables can call on themselves. I do not know the recursion limit. 2. They seem to only follow the wordings in the book. I have added items to charts. Also, the beauty of Abulafia is having many charts already done and laying around. Cent.Casting says "kidnapped" ? Abulafia has a chart for Culprits handy. 3. The physical book assume the real-life reader knows the character variables all the way through. If you have a Wealthy Half-Elf Nomadic Female, then the reader will ignore parts of the book that talk about being poor, urban, or dwarvish. Since Abulafia {at my understanding level} has no storage, all charts and tables are currently genericized. So, I have changed the wordings to "they", changed mentions of wealth to like "become poor", etc. 4.Somebook charts are bell-curves, and some are weighted for poor people at bottom, and rich folks up top, because the reader knew the Wealth Mod going in. Abulafia does not know it, at this time. Most of my charts are linear, even probability. 5.The book scatters he/she all over the place. My versions probably could handle that better. Also the placement of A/AN before vowels is sub-par.

If your variable ideas work, then Cent.Casting does need to be in one giant file. The user Majyc made the one I'm borrowing from. Doesn't seem like he's been back for 6 years. Also, my charts are a work in progress. I certainly do want to tidy up the out put, AFTER I get all the charts working on a basic level. Thanks for looking. I hope I'm not stepping on toes doing this.

Also, wait till you see how I handle the Secret "GM Special" table. --- Egyptoid

Cent.Casting
I renamed the top-caller page of C.Casting into CC-Fantasy-Lives. not just to please you, but to make calling sub-charts easier. Also, do you know of any example pages that use the Wiki Replace function ? 15:18, 14 October 2019 (PDT) Egyptoid

Fantasy Lives
Thanks for making tables and charts I could borrow from.

the main backstory generator  page is at CC-Fantasy-Lives

I've gotten my Casting-style background tables prepared to the point

I want to call for help and beta-testing. my email is Egyptoid @ gmail - com

or my user discussion page User_talk:Egyptoid

please run it a few times, and tell me about what stinks.

also I ask what should the final layout look like ?

some of the errors are minor, and come from trying to parse grammar

across 4 sub-charts, like: the sorcerer summoned the an water elemental that fallen into a volcano

previous authors have tried to adhere to the book, I have just used the Casting book as a skeleton,

and tried to improvise and expand with the wide capabilities of Abulafia.

please let me know if you like it not, and why.