I wanted to point out two small things in relation to recent posts:
- There is now a Recent Comments gadget in the righthand column of this blog, displaying the last five comments made to any posts here, even ones from several months or years ago. A suggestion was made that, by including it, I might increase interest in the comments section. Since it wasn't a difficult addition to the blog, I readily complied. So far, it seems to be working, so that's great.
- One of the players in my House of Worms campaign, cartographer extraordinaire, Dyson Logos, has posted his own account of recent events. If you're looking for a different, less florid perspective on the campaign's penultimate session, give a read (and tell Dyson he's misspelled Dhich'uné while you're at it).
Also useful is the comment feed: http://grognardia.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
ReplyDeleteWhen used in inoreader at least, that shows all the new comments. Quite nice for following all the discussion.
Good Morning, James.
ReplyDeleteThank you for adding the 'recent comments' feature to this blog.
As mentioned in my inaugurial comment on 19 September, I discovered Grognardia about a month or two before you came back to it .. and due to certain pandemic circumstances spent much time with your posts and the comments over the last several years.
The primary reason I have hitherto failed to engage in the ongoing streams of discussion is that, being of a scholarly disposition, the time I take to consider a matter, and form an adequately thoughtful reply, means often the heat of the conversation seems to have passed.
This situation is all the more acute in two ways:
As I only tend to use the internet about once or twice a week (my work is very traditional, almost entirely offline), and there are often one or more post per day, it takes me a reasonable amount of time to catch up, and often I am not in a position to post a comment for seven to ten days.
Also (and I see even from some comments in the last month there may be other .. younger .. readers in this position) coming to Grognardia during its second phase, many of the posts and comment which were new to me (and so engaging that I spent considerable time and attention with them) were already a decade old.
Therefore, I perpetually feel a bit 'on the back foot' sort to speak.
When I find your questions, ideas, and/or the discussions particularly valuable, I take notes, do a bit of research, and reflect .. sometimes a perspective arises that constitutes a different view, or othertimes merely an internesting nuanced understanding of the topic .. but I never post them, because I did not know if you (or other readers) bothered to consider new comments to old posts and/or comments to recent posts where it seems your interest and those of the interlocutors had passed on.
Do I understand correctly from this post that you (and other Grognards) are interested to revisit some of those old topics that are proving to be of perennial interest?
With Abiding Gratitude,
M.
Also, thank you for the link to Dyson's website .. his maps are so engaging, and of the old Spirit, that I have passed them onto a friend who did the cartography for our group in the 1970s/1980s (still my favourite maps to this day), with the hope they will inspire him to take up map making again, and share his beautiful work outside our group.
Cherrio, and may All be Well.
I became a fan of Dyson's blog independently a few months ago but had not put together your connection! What a delight.
ReplyDeleteDyson is one of only two players to have been part of the campaign since the beginning.
DeleteHe's done some fantastic maps for Tekumel settings as well. One of the best RPG cartographers out there IMO. Also a much better artist than he gives himself credit for - a common trait among people with real drawing skills.
DeleteHe's also a very kind and fun guy. I'm lucky to have had him in my gaming group for so long.
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