The social/rumor bits I noticed have already been eliminated, but the statistic tricks are still going strong! Looks like the last couple rounds could be a close call
Winners of the Gameable bracket!
1st: Overloaded random encounter table
2nd: Bell curve Encounter Table
3rd: Person-Shaped Hole
4th: Remembering the Dead (Group Downtime Activity)
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Look at that, the Advice bracket finals are already upon us. I didn’t keep up with this one so post the highlights to reward my laziness.
And congratulations to MURKMAIL for winning Best Debut Blog!
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Thanks! We’re still in shock haha. Can’t wait to see this next round play out.
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I’m compiling the bloggies into a zine sized PDF for printing. It started as a project for myself to learn a little Affinity Publisher, so the formatting is quick and dirty with wide margins for notes.
I would like to give this away. I haven’t looked into the copyrights, a lot is CC of some flavor. Any thoughts/advice for doing this?
I’ll definitely:
- contact all authors and artists to get their blessing.
- add a QR to each so it can be found at its source.
- want to create an appropriate cover (anyone willing to make something? … wait to see if this gets going.)
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I’d be down for it, but you should be careful with including art from the posts, since I pasted parts of a book into my review, I’m uncertain about the legality.
I could probably write Modiphius about it to see if permission would be granted for printing the review???
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64 blog posts may be a bit much to fit into a printable zine, just in terms of word count alone. I mean, we are talking about at least two post from A Knight at the Opera, after all!
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You’d probably be able to do a zine for each category.
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I’m thinking of the top 4 in each category. Like a Winners of 2024 thing.
Definitely will be careful with reproductions from other sources, print and art.
that sounds a LOT more manageable yeah
as long as the zine isn’t being distributed as paid material you should be pretty safe
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As others have pointed out, this does take up quite a bit of space! You might need to edit further unless your goal is just to print the text as-is.
For context, I considered publishing my Dolmenwood Faction posts, 16 in total. Even after trimming sections, the preliminary draft still came to 64 pages in an A5 format.
Going the Top 4 route really seems more feasible, though I recall a couple of the posts being longer as well. Curious to see what you end up with!
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Oh yeah, top 4 it’s gotta be. It takes time to clean and prep text. And I’ve gotta make tough choices for everything I’m working on.
The finals have officially begun! You can find the announcement on BlueSky.
The finalists are (in order of the ballot):
The 1 HP Dragon by Explorers Design.
Overloading the Random Encounter Table by Prismatic Wasteland.
On People-Centered Adventure Design by Weird Wonder.
Deep Dive: Stonetop by Indie Game Reading Club
Honestly, you can’t go wrong with any of the choices here. I wrote The 1 HP Dragon and can’t wait to share how it evolved since I last wrote about it. Amanda P and I are thinking that if one of us wins, we’ll probably cohost the competition. It’s getting to that size where it takes a village.
Anyway, don’t forget to vote! If you haven’t read these yet, you might like them. They’re fun reads while at a coffee shop.
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Surprised and pleased at how well the Stonetop review did in such an _SR-heavy contest! Congratulations to all the finalists, looking forward to the results
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Indeed, it speaks volumes about where the scene is these days.
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I sure wish someone would put together an OPML file of these blogs so I could import them all at once.
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I wish I could be that person, but I only just recently learned how to add a tab for RSS on my blog. I still need to set aside an afternoon to setup a blogroll.
PS: It’s cool to see you here. I used to watch your Twitch streams pre-pandemic and still own my copy of Lazy Dungeon Master.
Awesome!! Thank you! Even just a nice clean list of the blogs would help.
Oh that’s a good idea I’ll try and do that this weekend. I want to redo my RSS feed, I feel like I follow a lot of blogs that don’t post or I’m not that interested in at the moment.
I did something like that here on my raindrop.io account.
It’s a library with all the blogs of all three years. In the share there’s an rss link.
I like the idea of an opml of all the blogs. I might be able to export something that’ll make it easy to parse one.
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