I don’t think I’m going to do a proper post again this week. Oddly, my problem today is not having nothing to say, but rather having too much. I’ve had several ideas for posts this week, but couldn’t settle on any one of them, with the result that I’ve got 3 or 4 half-finished* ideas and no hope of actually completing any of them. I’ve been worrying at a technical post for my Other Blog for a couple of weeks now. I’m also due for a follow up on my first full-length Heroscapers post. I’m deep into my rewatch of the original Whedon brilliance, Buffy the Vampire Slayer intertwined with Angel, and it’s inspired at least two post ideas in my brain. Plus I now have twice as much experience with the Iron Druid books as I did when I last wrote about them, so I feel an update there is warranted. I’ve been pondering a much longer series-version of my salad post. And several other less developed neotonous thoughtlets.
Of course, one of my richest source of blog posts is questions people ask me.** Someone will ask me a question, then I give them the answer that springs to mind, and then I get to thinking about it, and pondering, and mulling it over, and worrying at it with my little mental teeth, and suddenly blammo! I’ve got a new blog post. This weekend’s question was from my eldest, who I introduced to roleplaying games like Pathfinder and Darwin’s World at a fairly young age. Now he’s a teenager and handling the GM duties for his own circle of friends. Although in many ways he’s a typical teen, which means he spends all day in his room in front of his computer avoiding talking to icky parents and annoying little siblings, every once in a while he comes out for air and actually engages with me on some topic or other. Yesterday, he asked me: which D&D/Pathfinder race did you think was the most exciting when you read it? Quickly followed by, which class? These are some weighty questions, and they could easily balloon into a whole series of posts, but I think I’d like to give them time to germinate a bit before I just leap into them. Also, I want to finally get off my ass and put some of my homebrew classes up on the web somewhere so that I can reference them in these posts.
Anyways, that’s a long rambling way of saying that I’m fiddling around and not actually going to give you a full post this week. Hopefully you’ll recover from the crushing disappointment.
* This is me being generous to myself. They’re all less than half finished. None of them are really a quarter finished, most likely.
** Most recently seen in my post on craftmanship.
** Most recently seen in my post on craftmanship.