Comments on: The Dungeon Master Performance Review

By: David Christiansen

David Christiansen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:36:37 +0000

Thanks Dan! I’ve fixed the link!

By: Dan Weese

Dan Weese — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:32:17 +0000

I tried to view your D and D performance review doc from July 2006, but the link is dead. Can you email it to me? I’m struggling with the best way to review my development team.

By: Allen Bruce Childress, Jr.

Allen Bruce Childress, Jr. — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:17:42 +0000

Just a note for Allen’s Dad. He may be onto something. As I get older, which is a good thing, I realize that I ahve developed certain skils in my unique part of the world, and if I restrict my field am at least an expert and can sometimes “invent” solutions instead of just doing it the same old way each time. For one thing it allows me to work faster and with a few refinements in most cases better. I don’t work in computer programing like Allen but I do havve my fields and since I found this site on my own, I do ahve some basic computer skills well above most 65 year olds that I know.

You can pass this on to Allen and see what he says.

A. Bruce Childress, Jr.

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:07:23 +0000

Thanks for the reference! Your straight forward honesty always impresses me. I learned that list playing Ultima Online, but I expect they got the list from some form of martial arts.

The title that is often forgotten by everyone, and fascinates me most is “Adept”. That amazing point where one “gets it”…. things begin to flow…. little “oopsie”s transform into “secret trick”s. Memorization of Journeyman transitions into the Precision of Expert and finally the Smoothness of Adept (Kuk Sool Wan). The spinning glass of the bartender… the use of natural energies around to do the work. In my opinion, really where the genesis of magic and creativity can be found. Magic and Adept’s tricks often share the same element of hiding the item for a period of time until it is needed again… like the Hashing algorythm in computer science.

We are able to create “Expert” systems…. but noone has yet to fabricate a “Creative” system.