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Lucille L. Blumire

THE LAND, Revisted, Secularised

THE LAND, Revisted, Secularised

The Land is a protest song, popularised in the UK by David Lloyd George, the most recent Liberal prime minister in the United Kingdom. He served as prime-minister in a Conservative Majority coalition government, combining the Conservatives 38.4% of the electorate with the Coalition Liberals 13.4%. This was

Building My Ideal Basic D&D Setting 1: Alignments & Magic.

Building My Ideal Basic D&D Setting 1: Alignments & Magic.

Long ago, the Old King ruled Amter. He was a good king. A just king. All the things a king should be. His kingdom prospered. From far off lands where it snow falls unceasingly, to those further still where the ground is made of sand, his kingdom spread. Whilst the

Why My Orcs Are Monsters

Why My Orcs Are Monsters

The current discourse, and a discourse that has been around for a while, has been on the topic of "Evil Races". The discourse has been long talked about, and I'm not going to give a full or in-depth summary here. The crux of the discussion is: "should an entire race

A Genealogy Of Dungeons & Dragons & Old-School Essentials

Old School Musings

A Genealogy Of Dungeons & Dragons & Old-School Essentials

Following from Chainmail, all the way through to the most modern iterations of the game: D&D 5e and OSE Advanced Fantasy. Yes I'm putting OSE on a pedastal and treating it as canonical despite not being connected via intellectual property rights, but it deserves it. Link to fullsize image

There is almost always a better choice than an Ability Check

Old School Musings

There is almost always a better choice than an Ability Check

Ability checks, those things that power the skill system of 5e. In this article I would like to explain why I think they are basically worthless, and that within old school roleplay, particularly within the rule system of Old-School Essentials, there is almost always a better choice. Ability Checks The

Response: Dungeon Antology Orthodoxies I

Old School Musings

Response: Dungeon Antology Orthodoxies I

Jojiro has churned out a bunch of these over on his blog, it has now come time for me to produce the easiest content ever: responding to someone elses blog. Orthodoxies I 1. Your players arrive in an abandoned city – the first thing they do is enter a home, asking

Thinking In Rust Part 1: Types

Rust is a programming language that requires you to change how you think. To learn a new programming language, you need to learn it's flavour of syntax. For many, once you know the standard OOP paradigms of classes and inheritence, you can transfer between other languages with ease. Rust requires

How I run the thief. Old-school musings on the thief class.

Old School Musings

How I run the thief. Old-school musings on the thief class.

The thief is probably the most discussed class in all of Basic D&D. It has strange percentile mechanics not shared by any other class. It has backstabbing with poorly defined mecahnics. What even is hiding in shadows anyway? We're going to explain all of this, from the context of

When is it? Old-School Musings on the passage of time.

Old School Musings

When is it? Old-School Musings on the passage of time.

There are a lot of rules for the passage of time in D&D. Most take to my tastes completely the wrong approach. The most egregious place for this is during wilderness adventuring. In which time is measured in days. Over the course of a day, a party might lose

An upgraded stream!

An upgraded stream!

I've upgraded my livestream with some animated components! The new overlays are super satisfying and I thought I'd write a blog post to explain them. Everything was made in illustrator, and animated in after effects. So if you've got Adobe CC, you can do all of this! I now use

The skills you didn't know you had. Old school musings on the B/X skill system.

Old School Musings

The skills you didn't know you had. Old school musings on the B/X skill system.

If there's one thing the OSR community can debate until the heat death of the universe it's skill systems. Some people hate them and want none of them, some people like something simple, most people agree that the 3rd edition onward have too much crunch. Every new OSR game seems

What Is That Gem or Jewel? Old School Musings on Gems and Jewellery types.

Old School Musings

What Is That Gem or Jewel? Old School Musings on Gems and Jewellery types.

The 1st Edition of AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide is a wonderful resource for any referee to possess. In the section "Money (Gems & Jewelry)" there are roll tables for determining the precise values and types of gems and treasures rolled. These sadly don't exist for my preferred edition: B/X.

Did I Hit? Old School Musings On To Hit Resolution Systems.

Old School Musings

Did I Hit? Old School Musings On To Hit Resolution Systems.

Modern Dungeons and Dragons (3rd Edition Onwards) have all adopted a unified hit resolution system. \[\text{d20} + \text{Attack Mod} \ge \text{Armour Class} \implies \text{Hit}\] Those well versed in gaming history, or experienced in Old-School Systems, will almost certainly be familiar with the older variant of this, introduced

YOU DIED... Would You Rather Not? Old School Musings on Hit Point Narrative Resolution

Old School Musings

YOU DIED... Would You Rather Not? Old School Musings on Hit Point Narrative Resolution

There's always a bit of ludonarrative dissonance in gaming. It's something that's always impossible to avoid—when the narrative of a game and it's gameplay disagree slightly. The biggest place I find this happens in tabletop gaming is with hit points. Especially in D&D and it's various offshoots, versions,

Which Saving Throw Should I Use? Old School Musings On Saving Throws

Old School Musings

Which Saving Throw Should I Use? Old School Musings On Saving Throws

Saving throw names are a biproduct of the very traditional dungeon crawling environment they were built for. As such, their names can seem awkward and difficult to assign to certain effects and traps. The first thing to understand when determining what type of save should be given to the effect

Game of the Year Rollup

Game of the Year Rollup

These awards are given to the best game I played in a given year. Not necessarily to the best game that came out that year. 2019 Fate/stay night. Having watched most of the Anime series available, read most of the lore on the wiki, and considered myself a fan

So You Want To Buy A Person? Old School Musings On Retainers

Old School Musings

So You Want To Buy A Person? Old School Musings On Retainers

Retainers are a core part of the old school D&D experience. Specifically here as in all posts on this blog I’ll be focusing on the basic and expert system, and specifically the OSE expansion to this system. There are a number of rules I use to help make

Securing of Social Content with Non-Disruptive Cryptography

Computer Science

Securing of Social Content with Non-Disruptive Cryptography

University of Reading Computer Science Bachelors Paper. Graded >77% (exact grade unknown). https://github.com/LLBlumire/papers/raw/master/CS3IP16.pdf LLBlumire/bsc-crypto-social-network-refProvides the Reference Implementation of my Bachelors Project: “Securing of Social Content with non-disruptive cryptography”. - LLBlumire/bsc-crypto-social-network-refGitHubLLBlumire https://soclocker.llblumire.co.uk

Review of the paper "Evolution strategies as a scalable alternative to reinforcement learning"

Computer Science

Review of the paper "Evolution strategies as a scalable alternative to reinforcement learning"

University of Reading Computer Science Part 3, Artificial Intelligence (2018) final paper. Graded 100%. https://github.com/LLBlumire/papers/raw/master/CS3AI18.pdf

Land Cover Classification With Supervisied Learning

Computer Science

Land Cover Classification With Supervisied Learning

University of Reading Computer Science Part 3, Visual Intelligence (2018) Task 1 Paper. Graded 92%. https://github.com/LLBlumire/papers/raw/master/CS3VI18.pdf

Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of the Employing of Fact-Checking Services on Social Media

Computer Science

Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of the Employing of Fact-Checking Services on Social Media

University of Reading Computer Science Part 3; Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Computing (2017). Graded 100%. https://github.com/LLBlumire/papers/raw/master/CS3SC17.pdf

Technical Report on a Solution to the Convex Hull Problem for Multiple Complex Polygons in Rust

Computer Science

Technical Report on a Solution to the Convex Hull Problem for Multiple Complex Polygons in Rust

University of Reading Computer Science Part 2, Algorithms and operating Systems (2017) Final Paper. Graded 90%. https://github.com/LLBlumire/papers/raw/master/CS2AO17.pdf

The Process of Attacking a Legacy phpBB Server, and Gaining Elevated Privileges Without Proper Credentials

Computer Science

The Process of Attacking a Legacy phpBB Server, and Gaining Elevated Privileges Without Proper Credentials

University of Reading Computer Science Part 2, Databases and Information Security (2017) Final Paper. Graded 70%. https://github.com/LLBlumire/papers/raw/master/CS2DI17.pdf

Predicting Unknown Linguistic Behaviour from Known Linguistic Behaviour

Computer Science

Predicting Unknown Linguistic Behaviour from Known Linguistic Behaviour

University of Reading Computer Science Part 2, Neural Networks (2017) Final Paper. Graded 82%. https://github.com/LLBlumire/papers/raw/master/CS2NN17.pdf

Lost in Space

A savege worlds one shot I wrote back in 2018 https://github.com/LLBlumire/publish/raw/master/Savage_Worlds_One_Sheet_Lost_in_Space.pdf