For decades, the "Tabletop" in Tabletop Role-Playing Games implied a specific chaotic aesthetic: a dining room table groaning under the weight of hardcover books, scattered graph paper, and mountains of eraser shavings. But as a Manager of Quality and Compliance (and a lifelong IT professional), looking at a pile of unorganized papers gives me hives. It represents inefficient data retrieval. I am currently running a Pathfinder 2nd Edition (similar to Dungeons & Dragons) campaign set in a homebrew world I began creating 44 years ago. We just finished our 74th four-hour session (with dozens more to come) . Managing that amount of legacy code (lore) and active runtime data (combat) requires an enterprise-grade Tech Stack. Here is the architecture of my hybrid digital table. 1. The Visuals (The Augmented Reality Table) The Tool: Foundry VTT (Hosted on The Forge ) + Digital Projector We don't crowd around laptop screens. I use a digital projector mounted above the table...
Nearly twenty years ago, I started a blog called The Path is Too Deep, a geeky reference to a rare computer error message. A great deal of life has happened since then, a life I would like to share. So, here again, are some random bits of unfiltered Chris.