{"id":2508,"date":"2010-07-30T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2010-07-31T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T08:29:32","slug":"i-live-i-hunger-i-roll-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/i-live-i-hunger-i-roll-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"I live! I hunger! I roll dice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should probably not leave a month of silence after that previous entry! So here is to tell you all that I am seemingly unharmed, gobbling pasta and writing with dice.<\/p>\n<p>For those who were not impressed to the level of never forgetting when I mentioned this technique years ago: \u00c2\u00a0Basically I use the old GURPS ruleset and throw 3 ordinary 6-sided dice for a skill check when my \u00c2\u00a0character tries to do something that is not trivially easy. \u00c2\u00a0The result of the throw is compared against the character&#8217;s skill and whatever modifiers may apply to the particular situation, and the story develops depending on the result. This makes my writing at least somewhat unpredictable even to me. If I want a particular result, my character may need to take a different route to arrive at the goal. Or the story may even take a different direction. It makes writing fun. But I am glad God is not playing dice with the universe&#8230; Right? Unless the dice are us? \u00c2\u00a0People sure act random sometimes. Me included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should probably not leave a month of silence after that previous entry! So here is to tell you all that I am seemingly unharmed, gobbling pasta and writing with dice. For those who were not impressed to the level of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/i-live-i-hunger-i-roll-dice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}