Plans for the Blog: 2025

So previously, I laid out the reasons for why I went silent for two years, and it can mostly be summarized as “overextending myself”. My plans for the blog revolve around correcting that problem and managing things better.

Topic Changes

Very little is going to change as far as the focus of the blog. Previously, I posted about RPG-related topics and one non-RPG topic that could be interpreted as “RPG-related,” if you squint enough:

• Commentary on RPGs or the RPG community in general.
• Gameplay advice.
• Useful supplemental material, such as monsters, maps, random tables. The usual stuff.
• Sharing work-in-progress material on the above (artwork or other assets, for example.)
• Media commentary/reviews.

None of these are going away. For commentary posts, I will focus on highlighting interesting discussions or posts, like the Blog Post of Note series I started. I will still follow my policy of “little or no RPG politics or drama”; I may agree that some formerly popular people who lost cred or became pariahs deserve what they got, but I still feel that such drama is a waste of time.

I am not going to link to my Minecraft videos or most of my other non-RPG projects. However, I would like to do videos for the Last-Minute GM series and some similar RPG topics. I don’t want to turn my blog into announcements for what I’m doing on YouTube or elsewhere, however. When I start a series of interest to RPG fans, I will do one post linking to the new playlist, then add some kind of widget or something in the sidebar that names the most recent video in that series. The goal is to keep it unobtrusive.

Schedule Changes

Although the post types and topics won’t change much, the distribution will change. I don’t want to do two to three posts a week again. There will be one or two long posts every two weeks, more or less. Shorter posts like quick comments or links to resources can be more frequent, but they will be on a “post when inspired to post” schedule. This will probably work out to at least one post a week and an average of six to eight posts a month, but my goal is a low-stress, no-deadlines hobbyist approach. There won’t be a strict schedule.

Format Changes

Stuff is probably horribly out-of-date and pretty ugly. I notice at least one widget has stopped working, some kind of OSR search box. Probably, it points to a link that no longer exists because the creator dropped out of the community.

Every few months, I got emails asking for access to one of the PDFs I keep on Google Docs. Google seems to routinely break their own shareable links. I probably need to check all these. I may need to look around for a more stable file hosting solution, but I can’t really afford anything at the moment.

Summary

Posting is coming back, but on a more low-key, informal basis. I’m still invested in a couple of my old projects; I just don’t know when they will be complete. Things are going to happen when they happen.