I don't think any sane individual could write something like BIND without automation tools. Games with a similar scope require a team. (BIND also requires a team - everyone who's joined to comment, edit, or draw, has improved the game immensely, but that's not today's topic) Step Five A lot of people imagine they could …

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A,D&D gave monsters random treasures like this: Type Gold Silver Copper Scroll Potion Magical Item S 100-600 1-10 - - - - P 100-800 100-400 - 20% 15% - The system goes like this: The players randomly encountered an Owlbear. It has 'Treasure type P'. The DM then rolls 1D8 x 100, and determined that it has 200 cp in its …

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People who want to work with others on an RPG naturally tend towards Google docs. It seems so easy. They send the link out, people make edit suggestions, and you click 'approve' or 'deny'. Everyone's generating spells, and spelling corrections at 100 kph, and it all looks great. Git, meanwhile, looks like a …

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I think it's fair to say that Adobe's InDesign is the standard publishing tool for RPGs, or at least the most common among the most well-known RPGs. However, it's clearly inappropriate for BIND. BIND's all about working together on an open project, but InDesign is geared to limit that openness. Cash In order to use …

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I've rather gone off the notion of 'collectibles'. Collectible RPG books are special because they can't meet the demand. We can't all have a copy of those original D&D books, or whatever swanky thing White Wolf brought out with the expensive full-page art. In this vein, I've been making the campaign book - 'Missions in …

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