The 10 Best Roleplaying Reads of January 2015!

On Friday I wrote a post over on EN World highlighting the 10 Best Reads of January and the reception has been pretty good so far both on EN World and Reddit (which is where I'm always afraid I'll get savaged). I like doing things like this because it tends to get people thinking about not only the blogging side of things but about new ways to run their games. 

When I started the BEST READS OF THE WEEK! series my whole idea was to try and raise the profile of other bloggers by highlighting their best posts. In a lot of ways it's worked because I get great comments telling me how they're finding things they would have otherwise missed. Which is wonderful but the posts typically don't get as many page views when I post them on the weekend as I think they would if I posted them during the week. I'm going to start posting them sometime during the week Monday through Friday. I'm leaning towards making it a regular Monday thing but I thought I'd see what you all think. So leave me a note and let me know!

I Totally Wrote That!

My latest project has just gone live! Over at EN World Morrus has just posted my latest guest column 10 Sites to Make Your Halloween Games Better! Whoot! Go check it out!

I'm Drinking At the Tavern!

Actually it's more like I've written a post that Tenkar was nice enough to put up!

I had thought about writing a post that discussed why we should abandon our European adventure settings and instead start exploring the surrounding world we live in because that's far more interesting. I started working on that article a couple of weeks ago focusing on the wide variety of options available based on just looking at what's around you and using things like abandoned mines and under-cities as the inspiration for your future games.

Then I got bored. 

So I decided to write about one of my games where things went off the rails after my part was done. It was a hell of a lot more fun to write so I completely abandoned the other post. I submitted it to Erik and he posted it this morning. So far it's gotten three comments:

Venger Santis: "Is flash fiction what you had in mind for guest posters, Erik?"

Fore Shame: "Nope, I don't get it."

and

Charles Akins: "Me either."

Seems to me like I'm winning the internet this morning! Hope you guys and gals enjoy that post as much as they did!

One Dead Ogre and Four Bruised Egos!