Steerpike has a blog now

[Steerpike]

Hey guys.  I just thought I'd "officially" let everyone know I have a blog now.  It can be found here.  On it, I'll be posting a variety of stuff, mostly gaming-related.  There may occasionally be some cross-posting between the guild here and the blog, but I'm going to try and keep that to a minimum.  In general, stuff I'll put on the blog will include:

- Adventure Modules and notes for games I'm running (basically, free adventures I've written)
- fragments, ideas, sketches, and other bits and pieces of world-building stuff, as opposed to cohesive settings
- reviews of PC games, tabletop games, boardgames, and possibly other forms of media relevant to my interests
- self-indulgent ruminations (and possibly occasional rants) on gaming
- thoughts and reflections on current games I'm running or playing in

Many, many thanks to Nomadic for helping me set up the blog and get it off the ground.

[LordVreeg]

added to favorites.

[Steerpike]

Aww, thanks Vreeg  :grin:

For those who might not be as familair with my stuff here, I tend to favour Gothic, horrific, grotesque, post-apocalyptic, weird, and/or generally creepy games and settings.

[SA]

Currently, I'm pursuing a PhD in English Literature; my dissertation concerns the aesthetics of disgust in weird fiction, beginning in the late nineteenth-century and moving into the twentieth.

Oh well that explains everything.

[LD]

Excellent!
I just finished reading what you have.

[Steerpike]

Awesome!  Hope you're enjoying it.

[Seraph]

This stuff is awesome!  I haven't read through everything, but the stuff for the adventure is crazy cool and I want to run that adventure now.

[Steerpike]

Wow, thanks so much!  We haven't got to the "good" parts yet - the 200+ room megadungeon that is Hexenburg itself (sub-areas include the Gatehouse, Gatehouse Dungeons, Black Tower, Laboratory, Chapel, Catacombs, Library Tower, Archives, Bastion, Gardens, Greenhouse, Hedge Maze, Broken Tower, Kitchens, Cellars, Keep, Dungeons, Caverns, and Barrow), plus tables for randomizing watch towers and other rooms.

[Seraph]

Well, I'm already hooked.  Can't wait for more!

[LD]

Have you considered putting the encounter tables in an actual table? Or setting them off somehow? They take up a vast amount of space on your page, which can take a toll on readers who are skimming down for text rather than tables- fluff rather than crunch.

Also an idea:

A separate sub-page to collect all the random encounter tables.
Or make the random encounter tables their own blog entry. (Text entry day 1, tables on day 2) or reverse?

[Steerpike]

I was actually thinking about doing that, LD.  I think it would look cleaner and take up less space, yeah.

I could tag random tables as random tables, and I could certainly also post a single collection of all random tables, maybe at the end with all the collected maps and handouts as well.  Once the whole adventure is complete and posted I may collect everything into a free, downloadable PDF for people, if that's something people would like.

On a different note, I was thinking of posting a Ravenloft adventure I'll be running this October for my Planescape group but realized it had Mindflayers, which are WotC product identity.  Would I be on any kind of thin ice posting a free adventure that happens to have Mindflayers, so long as I don't post any stats for them?  I mean, I doubt Hasbro would send in the lawyers for some guy's blog, anyway, but still...

[Seraph]

If there is a way you could present them using a term that is not considered product identity, you should be okay.

[HippopotamusDundee]

If there is a way you could present them using a term that is not considered product identity, you should be okay.

Ceremorphs, maybe? ;)

[Steerpike]

Yeah I was thinking of that myself.

The adventure actually features an Alhoon/Cerelich HippopotamusDundee :p

[O Senhor Leetz]

Looking good S!