1,000 Scores to Settle

For the last two months I've been looking at a number as it slowly ticked its way forward towards a new milestone on the blog: post 1,000. It's weird because at a thousand posts it feels like I should be doing something monumental with the blog. A giveaway of things I don't have or perhaps a thousand blowjobs to strangers - only my jaw wouldn't hold out that long and I really don't like the idea of sucking dick. I mean, if that's your thing, more power to you but I just have this really terrible gag reflex and I'm not into dudes and their wangs. 

Perhaps I've gotten distracted and shared too much. 

Anyway since this is the thousandth post and we're way into the millions of words posted on Dyvers I thought it would be a fun time to tell you about what's coming up on the blog by using pictures. Remember, using images instead of words to vaguely communicate your meaning isn't a sign of my being a self-important bag of dicks but rather a test to see if you're cool enough for my corner of the internet what with its nerdy fucking D&D content and shit.

It makes it hardcore if I curse, fool. 

Yo. 

Fuck yeah, D&D.

Sunday Hopes, Far Flung Plans, and Questions.

Projects, projects, projects.

1. Great Blog Roll Call Redux: This continues along at an incredibly sluggish pace due to my restricted bandwidth and due to the sheer size of the damned thing. Since I published the original version of the GBRC I've read nearly 10,000 blog posts and have written up introductions to more than 300 blogs. I'm hopeful that by the time I post the Redux that I'll have been able to push that number higher, but this project is a killer. 

2.  Preparing for Fifth Edition: I wish that I could say this has been moving along swimmingly but the truth is that my creativity in this avenue has been stymied by my lack of ability to share anything publicly. One of the great things about having a blog like this is that I can put out my ideas on where I want to go with the skills or other abilities and other players will show up and leave me some really great notes on the subject. 

3. February Art Fest: Really has been going well so far. I've seen a noticeable up tick in views on these posts which is really quite cool. Comments have been fun and I love hearing about what pieces people identify with and why. Love this project and I'm so glad that others have been coming along for the ride. 

d6 Random Questions

1. Why is it that some folks seem to feel it necessary to shit on those of us who weren't around for the earlier discussions? No, I wasn't here for the great Alignment debates of '08 or for the Carcosa persecutions. So fuck off and let me talk about them without asking me why we're still talking about these things.

2. Who has the best blog out there in the blogging landscape? I'm genuinely interested in this answer because I want to see who is the considered the best and then figure out what makes them so great. Is it their writing style? The topics they cover? Their longevity? Their posting frequency? 

3. Why is ABBA in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? What about Dancing Queen screems Rock or Roll?

4. Which is the better read, The Man of Gold by M.A.R. Barker or City of Hawks by Gary Gygax? I have both and am trying to decide between the two. 

5. Over the last few years I've completely convinced myself that James M. Ward is a fucking amazing guy. Am I completely off my rocker here or is he actually that cool?

6. Has anyone ever figured out how to keep a 2 year old clean? Cause that shit's eluding me.

100 Posts and Future Plans

It's hard to believe that I've already reached my hundredth post in just under three months. When I started I had the intention of just simply creating a blog where I could work out my overwhelming exuberance for Dungeons and Dragons in a semi-meaningful manner. In other words I wanted to avoid pissing off my lovely wife, the Glorious L, any more than was strictly necessary by limiting my discussions of Dungeons and Dragons to online chat, and our Sunday game.

I had no idea that I would begin to develop a style to my blog with semi-regular features such as Product Reviews and Dyvers Campaign write-ups, or even that anyone would read me. Thank you guys that do read me, and thank you for commenting whenever you feel like it. I really appreciate you all. 

Future Plans

Over the last few weeks I've begun to notice that once you get beyond seven articles on a single topic that it becomes incredibly difficult to navigate through the topic. In truth I figured this out after I was trying to read the Warlord Wednesday feature from the blog From the Sorcerer's Skull. He's nearing 200 articles on the topic and I'll be damned if I want to waste my time trying to navigate from the newest back to the first. So I'm eliminating that from my blog, and if you click on either the Dyvers Campaign page or the Product Review page you'll see exactly what I have in mind.

Hopefully it'll make your reading experience better.

I'm also going to be adding a new regular feature to this blog under the page Let's Read. Beginning today this series will be posted every Wednesday and will cover some book that is interesting to me at the time. I'll be going over the books in a way that is meaningful to their content. For example, in the first book of this feature, Role-Playing Mastery by Gary Gygax, I will be covering the book by chapters. In later books where the content is not divided up by chapters I will be reading by page numbers groupings. In either case I will always end each post by giving the next set to be covered. 

Whenever possible, and legal, I'm going to be linking to pdf versions of the books I'm reading in the hopes that some of you guys and gals reading this will be able to read along with me and that we can discuss the books that come up in this new feature.

Either way, thank you for reading me and I hope that you'll continue to find this blog enjoyable and worthwhile. 

-- Charlie