# throw (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover throw. Page: Feed: --- ## [AD&D 1e Psionics](https://petersmj.com/blog/adnd-1e-psionics/) _2026-08-10 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ AD&D 1e psionics are a mixed bag, and that’s putting it generously. At minimum, the scattered nature of the psionics rules in the PHB and DMG makes it difficult for an aspiring 1e DM to use them. There exist some great, comprehensive resources written by more dedicated people than me (see Anthony Huso’s post here and someone else’s follow-up post to it here ). My goal isn’t… ## [Psionics for Non-Psionists](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/rules/psionics-for-non-psionists/) _2026-08-09 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Psionic blast is the only psionic ability available to a psionists for use against non-psionic creatures. Each use of psionic blast costs 20 points and has one of the effects on the psionic blast table. Range is 20’/40’/60’ cone (5’ base, 60’ length, 20’ terminus). The psionist must have at least 100 PS available to use psionic blast . Saving Throw vs. Psionics… ## [Metaposting I](https://petersmj.com/blog/metaposting-i/) _2026-08-03 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ This is the first in what I assume will be the occasional meta-post on blogging and general content creation. As each week rolls around, I sit down and wonder what to write about for the Monday blog post, and as I do so many topics come to mind: D&D, academia, philosophy, technology, personal struggles, and so on. For every thought I have I often have a counter-thought or perspective that enters… ## [On Creation, Part Two](https://petersmj.com/blog/on-creation-part-two/) _2026-07-27 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ This is something of a follow-up to this post. The first post was on the first thing I ever created and made public. I felt then that I had something to prove to myself, that I could make something that people could actually use, love, and hate. I don’t think anyone but me has ever read and used it, but it’s the idea that counts. Since then, I can feel those muscles strengthening. I… ## [How AI is AI?](https://petersmj.com/blog/how-ai-is-ai/) _2026-07-13 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ I write an essay every week or so on a topic of interest with the intent of publishing them here. A friend of mine is kind enough to always proofread them, we have a great conversation about each one… and then I never end up publishing here. The reason for that is a whole different topic. I mention this because I’m working on another one of those essays, this time about AI 1 . AI essays are… ## [The Gettysburg Address](https://petersmj.com/blog/the-gettysburg-address/) _2026-07-04 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that… ## [How to Improve Internet Privacy in Under Five Minutes](https://petersmj.com/blog/improve-internet-privacy-in-under-five-minutes/) _2026-06-29 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ You can reach the 80-20 rule of internet privacy on your computer in under five minutes by following this guide, starting now. (See after for equivalent phone guide.) On your computer, download Firefox browser here: link Go to Settings \> Search, set your default search engine to DuckDuckGo. In Additional search engines, remove all other search engines but DuckDuckGo. Firefox has built in settings… ## [The Dyrland Map](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/reymar/the-dyrland/) _2026-06-09 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Download PDF ## [Lessons in Research](https://petersmj.com/blog/lessons-in-research/) _2026-06-08 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ I’ve learned a lot since starting graduate school. I thought it might be helpful to post some of the lessons I’ve learned throughout the course of my research so far. Many of these takeaways are also applicable outside of research. Some may seem obvious and you’ve heard them before, but I’ve found there is a colossal difference between hearing something and agreeing with it… ## [Glittering Cave](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/reymar/glittering-cave/) _2026-06-01 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ This adventure is designed for five to eight characters of levels 3-6. Background The Glittering Cave was once a mine in very old days, broken through in part by fire-setting. Historically, it’s thought that copper may have first been identified as a byproduct of extracting and processing malachite and azurite. In this sense, it was a foundational cave for copper mining and held spiritual… ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fujIudAy6h6Y) _2026-05-31 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [Glittering Cave Release](https://petersmj.com/blog/glittering-cave-release/) _2026-06-01 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Last week I published The Sanctuary of the Servant . This week I bring to you another module of mine: The Glittering Cave . When I read modules, I tend to skip the pages of introductions. I just want the sauce, you know? So while the module itself is light on background details, I thought I would give a little background here for those interested. After saving the life of a friend to a borderlands… ## [Sanctuary of the Servant](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/reymar/sots/) _2026-05-23 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Player characters should be at least third level before attempting this dungeon. Intro The quest is given by a mysterious, cloaked figure that quickly hands them the letter as soon as they get into town. Adventurers, Due East 3 days, then 1 day North. Great Treasure or terrible Doom awaits. Signed, P Original Map These are the original maps used for Sanctuary of the Servant. You can download these… ## [Sanctuary of the Servant Release](https://petersmj.com/blog/sanctuary-of-the-servant-release/) _2026-05-23 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Years ago when I had no idea how to make fun campaigns and any success was merely stumbled upon, the players and I were disgruntled with the current state of the game. We had a good first couple, but something was off after about ten sessions. Roundtable discussion after another followed, and eventually I threw up my hands, plopped them somewhere else in the world, and handed them an adventure… ## [Hard Days](https://petersmj.com/blog/hard-days/) _2026-05-19 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ One of those hard days came again. Tough meeting. Questioning what I’m doing. Doubting my abilities. Feeling lost. The spiral begins. Everyone has been here before. I’m used to these moments, and so I returned to my tried-and-true method: take a day. No matter how much you think you can’t, take the day. You get twenty-four hours to feel sorry for yourself and wallow in self-pity.… ## [Obsidian Vault Setup](https://petersmj.com/blog/obsidian-vault-setup/) _2026-05-11 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Organizing and indexing my notes has paid off time and time again throughout my research and personal projects. There are likely as many ways to organize your notes as there are notes, but I thought I’d share how I organize my notes anyway. Some friends have found use in this system. I will only include the bare necessities of what you need to operate this system, but note that I do have… ## [Ödlun Map](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/reymar/%C3%B6dlun/) _2026-05-06 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ ## [Statblock Generator](https://petersmj.com/blog/statblock-generator/) _2026-05-04 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ I am trying to understand my “relationship” with generative AI, as I’m sure a lot of people are. It’s not good at everything. Promises are being made that will never be realized, about how this will be some silver bullet—an every-tool. I believe that there will be great consequences when the music stops and reality comes crashing down. I believe that it is being used… ## [The Engineer and the Artist](https://petersmj.com/blog/the-engineer-and-the-artist/) _2026-04-27 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ The Artist wants to create. They want to bring something new into existence and express themselves through their work. Often (I hesitate to say always) they wish to share this work with others. When they don’t, it is often out of a fear of exposing the most central parts of the self to scrutiny. The Artist wants people to have a reaction to their work, a great one if possible. They want to… ## [How are we supposed to use AI?](https://petersmj.com/blog/technology-in-research/) _2026-04-20 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ This is a response to Minas Karamanis’ excellent post on AI. You can find it here . I’ve been working on my physics analysis for about a year. Part of my PhD is looking at a particular particle (the eta meson) and trying to make a better measurement on the probability it decays in a particular way (into two muons), among other information about it. The process for doing a typical… ## [AD&D 1e Equipment List](https://petersmj.com/blog/adnd-1e-equipment-list/) _2026-04-13 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ I’m back again with some more AD&D 1e resources. This time, I present to you a (by-the-book) equipment list derived from the values listed in both the PHB and DMG. You can find the spreadsheet here . Not everything has an encumbrance value given in 1e; unless I found it absolutely necessary to give an approximate value based on other entries, I left that entry blank. Let me know if you catch… ## [World's cheapest GPUs, deployed fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cHl00e4pC29r) _2026-04-12 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy a live GPU-backed API in minutes for under $10 ## [AD&D 1e Character Sheet](https://petersmj.com/blog/adnd-1e-character-sheet/) _2026-04-06 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Not everyone wants my opinionated 1e revised rules , so I went ahead and made a by-the-book version of the AD&D 1e character sheet. You can find it here . It includes an automated and printer-friendly version. The pdf for the printer-friendly version can also be directly viewed and downloaded below. I haven’t updated this version in a while. It uses a slightly different (older) design of… ## [Converting Statblocks](https://petersmj.com/blog/converting-statblocks/) _2026-04-04 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Someone else has probably already done this, but I was working on my research and have been working on some statistics that would be useful for my upcoming game. We need to convert B/X ability scores (generated with six 3d6 rolls) to ARM ability scores (six 4d6 rolls, drop lowest die for each). It was a good exercise in learning Probability Mass Functions (PMFs), Cumulative Distribution Functions… ## [CODEX-beta Milestone](https://petersmj.com/blog/codex-milestone/) _2026-04-02 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ This is starting at the middle of the story. I hope to make more posts about what exactly CODEX-beta is , my contributions to the project, and the takeaways from the project, but for now I just want to mark a milestone in the progression of CODEX-beta, and the greater CODEX-b project and collaboration as a whole: we have managed to successfully take our first data. Now… the data has… ## [War Machine Play Report](https://petersmj.com/blog/war-machine-play-report/) _2026-03-30 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ I love the concept of wargaming. When I was a kid I used to think I’d go to West Point. Kids sure are crazy. Of all strange things to be interested in, military strategy has always been one of mine. I used to read military strategy books, military history, play Total War, Europa Universalis IV, and the like. So when I started to get deep into the TTRPG hobby, war games such as Chainmail… ## [Donate](https://petersmj.com/donate/) _2026-03-24 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Donate This stuff takes a lot of time to make, and most everything I put on this website is free. If you’ve found anything useful and would like to support what I do, you can use the link below to donate. Ko-fi link ## [ARM 1.0 Release](https://petersmj.com/blog/arm-1.0-release/) _2026-03-23 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Edit: Here ’s the link to the rules. When you’re going through a store or shopping for products online, you might feel like the items you see are somehow “official”. That’s how I feel, anyway. They have a level of polish, some nice coat of paint on it that makes it feel like a product in a way that might have you feel like anything you create can never measure up to… ## [ARM Rules](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/rules/arm/) _2026-03-23 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ You can read the associated blog post for this here , or just go straight to the sauce below. v1.1 Changed accent color to blue Updated Alignment definition v1.1.1 Dexterity 19 Major Test: 5:6 -\> 7:8 Constitution 19 Major Test: 5:6 -\> 7:8 v1.1.2 Minor syntax changes in Downtime Added “Research” as a downtime activity Added small note on Encumbrance for non-player characters Minor… ## [Run RSpec in parallel with flatware](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/run-rspec-in-parallel-flatware) _2026-03-21 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ Understanding Flatware and its purpose Flatware is an innovative tool designed to enhance the efficiency of testing in Ruby on Rails applications by enabling pa ## [ARM Character Sheet](https://petersmj.com/blog/arm-character-sheet/) _2026-03-16 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ One of the things I learned from Anthony Huso’s wonderful blog is that in order to run a (long-standing) 1e campaign, you need really good resources. To that end, I put together a character sheet for my revised 1e rules, ARM , here (using Google Sheets) that is quite powerful. I’ve done everything I can to automate the complex bits that slow the game down. When it comes to preparing… ## [Retainer Generator](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/tools/retainer_generator/) _2026-03-06 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/niqLzJh4pVsQ) _2026-03-05 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Handout](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/reymar/handout/) _2026-03-06 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Reymar - Official Guide For Players of Our Advanced Campaign Foreword This campaign is a chronicle of a dying world. This story is not about your character. It is not about a band of destined heroes. This is a story about a world where empires fall, city-states battle for survival, and forgotten horrors stir once more, pressing against the edges of civilization. I will lay the groundwork for this… ## [War Machine](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/rules/war_machine/) _2026-03-06 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Mass Combat — The War Machine The War Machine is a system of game rules designed to resolve large battles. It will work with any number of troops; it is recommended for any force with more than ten combatants. All you need is a pencil and paper, plus some knowledge of simple arithmetic. Assumptions All troops have a “level of quality” that can improve or drop with time and experience.… ## [War Machine (RC)](https://petersmj.com/ttrpg/rules/war_machine_rc/) _2026-03-06 · Michael J Peters on petersmj_ Chapter 9: Mass Combat — The War Machine The War Machine is a system of game rules designed to resolve large battles in the D&D game. It will work with any number of troops; it is recommended for any force with more than ten combatants. All you need is a pencil and paper, plus some knowledge of simple arithmetic. Assumptions All troops have a “level of quality” that can improve or drop… ## [Lessons learned from studying Fizzy test suite](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/fizzy-test-suite) _2025-12-09 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ The Fizzy application is a new play on Kanban board and project management. It has a comprehensive test suite focused mostly on unit and integration tests, althought other types of test are also present. The test suite is well-organized and follows Rails conventions with some application-specific patterns for multi-tenancy and UUID handling. Can we find more than that? ## [Validating fixtures before running the test suite](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/validating-fixtures-before-running-the-test-suite) _2025-10-06 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ Loading fixture data separately from running a test can find issues early and saves time investigating test failures. This post talks about how to do that. ## [Testing time in Rails with Minitest](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/testing-time-in-rails-with-minitest) _2025-05-28 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ Testing time in Rails with Minitest ## [Testing Action Cable subscriptions in Rails](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/testing-action-cable-subscriptions-in-rails) _2025-05-28 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ Testing Action Cable subscriptions in Rails ## [Testing exceptions with Minitest](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/testing-exceptions-with-minitest) _2025-05-11 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ Testing exceptions with Minitest ## [How to test with regular expressions using assert\_match](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/how-to-test-regular-expressions-assert-match) _2025-05-10 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ How to test with regular expressions using assert\_match ## [How to opt out of parallel database hooks](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/how-to-opt-out-of-parallel-database-hooks) _2025-05-02 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ How to opt out of parallel database hooks ## [The new public before\_fork\_hook for Rails tests](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/the-new-before-fork-hook-for-rails-tests) _2025-05-02 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ The new public before\_fork\_hook for Rails tests ## [What is RubyCDP](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/what-is-rubycdp) _2025-05-01 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ What is RubyCDP ## [Using RSpec bisecting to find the minimal reproducer](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/using-rspec-bisecting-to-find-the-minimal-reproducer) _2025-03-28 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ Using RSpec bisecting to find the minimal reproducer ## [Minitest vs RSpec for testing Rails applications](https://testdrivingrails.com/blog/minitest-vs-rspec-for-testing-rails-applications) _2025-03-12 · Josef Strzibny · Test Driving Rails Blog_ Minitest vs RSpec for testing Rails applications ## [Yak Shaving](https://goldensyrupgames.com/blog/2025-03-08-yak-shaving/) _2025-03-08 · Home on Golden Syrup Games_ “This will be a nice quick one to implement,” I tell myself. This week, I Was implementing AI for Inventor Simulator Needed the AI to select shelves to look at Was implementing a look-up-table of item-\>shelves-holding-item to make it faster Wrapped the shelves array in another struct because you can’t directly nest TSets and TArrays in Unreal Engine Added Unreal-Angelscript… ## [AngelScript Integration Tests](https://goldensyrupgames.com/blog/2024-10-09-angelscript-integration-tests/) _2024-10-09 · Home on Golden Syrup Games_ AngelScript is awesome. It’s a C#-like scripting language you can integrate into a C++ game engine, with wicked-fast hot-reloads, so wicked-fast iteration speed. The amazing Hazelight gamedev team integrated it into Unreal Engine and have made it open source. I wrote a longer post here that I’ll copy below. One of its great features is exposing Unreal’s test automation framework…