Links to Me Around the Internet
A collection of links to my other places around the internet.
Ted Tschopp's Blog
A collection of writings I have put online over the years. Some of it is really bad, and some of it I am proud of. All of it can be made better:
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On the Mountain of Saint George
Wodan, the god of the winds, is also the god of the creatures of the night. In Christian times, St....
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Wodan's Revenge
Thus sank Wodan, once worshipped by the people as a holy god.
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Getting an AI to Run Your Next TTRPG
How I have used AI Chatbots to help generate content and ideas for Table Top Role Playing Games.
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1956 Reprint - ICBM by Hanson W. Baldwin with full-page illustration by John Wilson
IT WILL not be long. In ten years—five years, perhaps only two or three —the historic count-down will start: "Ten...
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Mobile Computing
The trend in computing is to be more and more personable. When you went from a mainframe to a PC,...
Ted Tschopp's Role Playing Game Drafts
A collection of writings on Role Playing Games I am working on at this time. Some of it is really bad, and some of it I am proud of. All of it can be made better.
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Character Status, Communities, and Cryptic Alliances AKA How Gamma World Does Alignment
As characters have adventures, they will gain a reputation, fame, and status. You can track this growth in the campaign...
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Of Maps and Monsters, the Right way to Populate a World Part II
This work is the beginning of a collection of notes on Monsters. In the future I will split this out...
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Increasing in Rank in MCC with Archaic Alliances
The following is an integration of rules for Gamma World's Rank Advancement with Mutant Crawl Classic.
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Power Cells from Gamma World in MCC & DCC
The following is an integration of rules for Gamma World's Power Cells with Mutant Crawl Classic.
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Gamma World Weapons in MCC & DCC
The following is a conversion of rules for Gamma World's Traditional weapons in Mutant Crawl Classic.
Ted Tschopp's Social Media Posts
Landing Page is just HTML and CSS with a splash of SCSS for users who demand some deeper customization options. Out of the box, just add your content and images, and your new landing page will be ready to go!
Senior Enterprise Architect, Software at Southern California Edison
Enterprise Technology Architect responsible for SCE's IT software engineering and development strategies. Build and maintain SCE's strategy, technology road map, and platform management direction for over five hundred properties in this space using multiple architectural models.
Product Engineering and Build Process Manager at Southern California Edison
Responsible for the end-to-end management of the Product Engineering and Build processes, has governance control on all Product Engineering and Build processes, an advisor in Product Engineering and Build processes improvement activities, and provides advice to individual efforts completing the Product Engineering and Build processes on how they can improve their outcomes based on best practices from other enterprise efforts.
- Report on end-to-end Product Engineering and Build activities.
- Review key performance indicators and identify improvement activities for the end-to-end Product Engineering and Build processes
- Document and maintain the Product Engineering and Build process maps.
- Develop quality standards and governance checkpoints to ensure resources assigned to the Product Engineering and Build know what quality outcomes look
- Review and resolve Product Engineering and Build process issues.
- Communicate Product Engineering and Build processes changes.
- Engage with stakeholders so services run smoothly
Solution Architect for SCE.com
Technical team lead and single-point of contact for technical accountability on SCE's eCommerce channel from project concept through completion.
- 50% cost savings on SCE’s first mobile app for iOS and Android
- $12M savings on SCE.com rebranding project’s costs using agile methodologies focusing on expected outcomes
- Seat on IBM’s Digital Experience Customer Advisory Council
- 20 index point increase in user satisfaction through a mobile first strategy
- Developed technology portion of business case for capital program - $70M
- 40% increase in self-service transactions
- 10 x increase in mobile page views to +40% of site traffic
- 75% increase for turn on/off service and 75% decrease in manual order processing
- Represented SCE’s digital and ecommerce interests on the Utility Information Technology Benchmark (UNITE) group.
Founder of The One Ring - Tolkien Online
Founded and managed the most popular website dedicated to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings.
- Recognized in leading periodicals such as Los Angeles Times, CNN, and The Guardian UK
- Interviewed and featured in Wired Magazine September 2001 Issue
- Ranked as a top 10,000 website by Alexa
The Password Challange
Check the strength of your password based on mathematical models that take into account the latest hacking techniques!
- Includes a dictionary of the most common passwords
- Includes a dictionary of the most common English words
- Includes a dictionary of the most common passwords that have been hacked already
Procedural Text Generation
An application that generates text using procedural methods.
- A work in progress to help build an automated story telling computer
- Over 100 tables of various objects and qualities.
- To Do- Look into Mustache engine
Twitterbot - Random Board Game Night
An application of the Procedural Text Generation system to create a new game for you to play every hour.
- Need ideas for your board game night. Look no further. We have you covered!
- Uses tables from the Procedural Text Generation system I am using for computerized fiction
Random Star Constellations
An application I threw together to output a bunch of Procedurally generated star constellations.
