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The Bloggies 2024

The Dicepool

At the start, 87 posts ago, all the way back in July of this year, I wrote this:

I think I’ll write how I feel about some of the things I consume as a way to digest them (not the food and drink, I’ll do that in the traditional way.) But, mostly, I’ll be writing about my main creative outlet, playing, running and making things for tabletop role playing games. Let’s not be coy about this; the internet is not lacking for nerds going on about their games, or someone else’s games or games they watched other people play or games they hate or games they actually quite like, surprisingly enough. So, even knowing this, why would I have the gall to add to it? Good question, good question indeed. Maybe I will figure that out as I do it. The adventure is the journey and all that.

And, that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing. I am still doing it. I have learned a lot by doing it. This blog has genuinely been an enjoyable and useful outlet for me. It has allowed me to work through some game-related ideas that might otherwise have floated freely around my brain, temptingly close but always oh-so frustratingly out of reach. It has also given me the opportunity to express my feelings on more personal matters. Mainly, though, it has provided me the chance to write regularly about one of my favourite subjects, RPGs.

I have made a few changes over the last six months. I went from posting daily to every two days to every three days and then to twice a week. I feel like I have found the ideal schedule now and hope to continue with it. Thedicepool.com joined the woodpanelled.org web ring. I hope to see Woodpanelled grow even more in the new year. I started posting some of my own fiction pieces as well as the RPG-related posts. I’m hoping this will encourage me to write some new fiction soon! Finally, I have been sharing my posts more on social media, both Instagram and Bluesky. where I have made some connections with other people in the TTRPG sphere. I have had some great feedback from some of these interactions and that has encouraged me to put the blog out there a bit more.

The Bloggies Awards and a request

So here we are, it’s the end of the year and a good time to consider some of the things we liked from 2024. In this incredibly niche corner of the internet I find myself tucked away in, there is a way to show your appreciation for those things you liked, or that you found useful or inspirational or that just tickled your fancy. You can nominate a blogpost for the Bloggies Awards, which originated in 2022 on the Prismatic Wasteland blog.

The 2023 winner was Sacha (or sachagoat.) He won for the first part of an excellent series of posts about Re-inventing the Wilderness. You can check it out here along with an introduction to the Bloggies themselves. Basically, people nominate their favourite TTRPG blogposts within four categories:

  1. Theory – I don’t really get into this area too much on the blog, although I may in time
  2. Gameable – I also don’t have a lot of this sort of thing here. I have considered sharing some of my home-brew stuff, but I would need to do some more work on most of it first
  3. Advice – I have a fair few posts of this kind. I’m thinking of those on world-building, beginnings, endings, combining systems and mechanics, session prep, building community, etc.
  4. Review – I would hesitate to call myself a proper reviewer of RPGs but there are several posts that fit into this category. I am thinking particularly of the posts on Liminal_, Cthulhu Dark, and the series on Between the Skies and Dragon Age. But a lot of my other posts dealing with games I have played would probably fit into this category too.

Sacha has introduced a couple of new categories for this year too:

  1. Debut Series – This is me! Despite having 87 posts under my belt, this is still my debut year.
  2. Blog Series – I have several of these, including my series of character creation posts, the Between the Skies and Dragon Age series as well as those on combining D&D and Blades in the Dark mechanics

I won’t go into any more detail here. Sacha explains it all on his blog. Suffice it to say, if there are any of my posts from the past six months that have resonated with you I would appreciate a nomination. You can use this Google form to do it before December 31st. It only takes a couple of minutes and is pretty straight-forward.

Thanks

I appreciate all your support during the last six months, dear reader. At the start, I pretended like I would do this whether or not anyone read it, but the fact is, I do take great encouragement and motivation from the fact that others have read and gotten something from this blog. I would like to extend my gratitude to all of you who have taken a few minutes out of your day to read even a few of my words since July.

Happy holidays!