... every time I work on _Echelon Reference Series_ I have to fight the urge to make a _lean_ version of Pathfinder that can be data modeled more easily.

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OGL Victory Sale

The last few weeks have been pretty stressful for a lot of people, including me.

With the recent announcement regarding the OGL and placing SRD 5.1 under CC-BY, I'm in the mood to celebrate, so...
50% off all Echelon Game Design titles until February 11, and my two megabundles are still up if you want to save even more.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/5592/Echelon-Game-Design

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Not panicking on my part, but pondering a couple ERS Megabundles.

As I see it, I put these PDFs up because I was collecting the information anyway and I thought others might find it useful. In the event my ability to distribute these goes away -- and I'm not convinced it will -- I'd like to see and encourage others to get their hands on the material before that happens.

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Getting there!

Over 90% (21,230/23,860) prerequisites now resolve, either "I found a connection" or "I give up" ('must be born to a noble family' doesn't connect to a specific game object) or "don't care because it's structure" (where one of a set of prereqs suffices, there is an 'or prereq' containing the choices).

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Ah ha!

I figured out the last bits I needed in order to solve the 'make prerequisite parsing declarative' code. This means that instead of writing a slew of full templates that parse prerequisite text in different ways and then apply all the same steps with the resulting values, I can declare how to get the different values out and then... do all the same things.

This reduces about twenty elements to... one. And reduces the code I have to maintain.

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