The year 2011 was another learning experience in terms of writing a series of articles. Mainly I learned that I need to set aside time to read and write for some of the series that I had planned -- not all entries are easy to do, and that's what killed some of my attempts.
Still, in 2012 I'd like to continue doing reviews. Perhaps not all new products, some older ones -- even those that are not available in PDF on RPGNow or DriveThruRPG. I've become fascinated by what elements make certain RPG products work better than others and some of my fave rulebooks and sourcebooks come from back in my gaming past.
I'd also like to restart my postings on Enigmundia, and maybe combine that work with the Shards work I was doing.
I'd like to start up some support for the Hero System, sustain my support for Fading Suns, and figure out how to write some stuff for a science fiction campaign inspired by many sources.
That's a lot. I do hope I can do it.
Goals for Q1 2012
Just so I don't suffer blogpost amnesia, I write this more for myself than for you guys.
Of course, I'm going to continue doing RPG reviews broken up into:
- new products
- old products
I'm going to return to Enigmundia focusing on two areas:
- Zan Lazario - primarily a take on Mystara that's inspired by the Spanish colonization of the Philippines
- Kingdom of Wheels - a more high fantasy take on the traditional fantasy world with Megadungeons, hollow worlds, and non-human races
And I'm going to focus on several key RPG properties
- Fading Suns
- Hero System
- OSR rulesets and products
From 2011
After a stellar year of posting in terms of volume and variety in 2010, I'm hoping to narrow my blog posting in terms of focus.
This year I hope that most, if not all, of my posts fall along the following lines:
- Various Dungeons and Dragons-related posts covering 3E and back (including OSR stuff);
- Fading Suns-related posts;
- HERO System-related posts;
- Reports on actual game play or game planning;
- Brief Systems-related reviews or interesting game mechanic elements;
- Brief Setting-related reviews or interesting game setting elements;
- General RPG history and news.
UPDATE (30 March 2011)
I'm trying to narrow things down into projects. I still want to post different things that catch my interest, but for the meat, I want to have a more definite set of offerings. The blog projects I'm working on are:
- Mining Mystara - my effort to distill the elements of the Mystara setting that I really like, with the eventual purpose of creating a default go-to setting for all things D&D;
- HEROic D&D - my effort to use the 6th Edition of the Hero System "toolkit" to create a game system that harkens back to the early days of D&D gameplay;
- Reading Room - reading through rulesets and settings that catch my fancy;
- Hinirang - my effort to create the filipino history-inspired fantasy setting based on the original writings of the shared world setting.
- And The Sky Full of Stars Without Number -- a look at doing conversions of the OGL Babylon 5 material that was done by Mongoose Publications to the Stars Without Number system;
- Telling Details -- creating adventure seeds / bits of texture based on Filipino cultural traits and quirks.
So things have changed again. While I do love posting news and history, I think I should really try to shift out of the 'armchair' focus and try to prepare to get into running or playing more games. Current directions for my posting are:
- Mining Mystara - really push this forward to solidify my version of Mystara in a D&D ruleset (version unknown at this time)
- Mining Firebirds - finding things of interest to stick into the Fading Suns setting
- Building Stuff in HERO - may still tackle HEROic D&D, but also trying to work on characters in 6th Edition; I have a long history with HERO, and want to get back into it
- Reading Room - reading through rulesets and settings that catch my fancy
- Hinirang - my effort to create the filipino history-inspired fantasy setting based on the original writings of the shared world setting
