Interview with Marcelo of Star Wars RPG Shop Generator
"Another idea I've toyed around with is a character avatar generator where someone can choose a species, adjust height, weight, looks, weapons and whatever else to create a character. Unfortunately, art isn't in my skill set. However, if anybody out there can draw it up, we should talk."
READMORE
In today’s world we are under constant pressure to add new options to our games. New mechanics and options aren’t the be-all and end-all, though. Whether you use random tables or not, concentrating on the flavour and style of your campaign is far more important, and much more likely to create memorable, fun game sessions—which is what it is all about at the end of the day.
In card games like Magic The Gathering, players spend some of their time building their decks and some of their time playing their decks. I think the same is true for skills and projects. I've been spending the past few months learning math and algorithms by using them in tiny "game jam" sized projects.
"Unquestionably, the best part is when people contact me to tell me how their players reacted; I still find it sort of mind-blowing knowing that what started as an aid for myself, has helped or inspired so many others who share my love for D&D. "
How did you get into creating for the DM's Guild?I had a liver transplant in August of 2014. I had been a stand-up comedian, but when I got sick I had to move back to my hometown of Spokane. Once I
"One Sunday a few years ago, my mapper was mentioned on a Kotaku article and got a lot of traffic and i quickly had to retool some parts of the site to cache database queries and optimize to not get me in trouble with my hosting provider."
"What is the best way to parse and recognize tokens/macros? How to parse and evaluate equations? How to develop an extendable framework of tokens that also allows to render the results to many formats (html, json, plain text, etc)? I love things like that."
"Do you know those children's books split into three vertical sections that allow you to make weird people, monsters, and stuff...? ...I created a 3 Line NPC generator along similar lines for my Campaign Logger GMing app."
In a year and a bit we've had 28 interviews with different creators. My first creator interview was with Emily of Fantasy Name Generators and the most recent was Jerry Joe Seltzer of 5thdnd.com
"Most of the feedback made me feel great. Others though, had harsh things to say and I realized that every DM runs their game differently. I get it. Randomness isn't for everyone."