Monday, December 8, 2014

Read Dyson! Now what about other blogs?

I spent the last three days reading the entirety of Dyson's Dodecahedron and I have to say it was worth it. I was about to load one of his maps into GIMP, slap "I read all of Dyson but I didn't even get a cookie!" over it and include it with this post, but frankly I am too tired now.

What got me started initially was simply trying to get my grubby little fingers on every single map he has posted, but then I found so many other fun things to read. Take, for example, his extended play report for The Temple of Illhan. I really wish he had been able to actually write the module with his then-DM, it sounds like so much fun! Or check out his design notes on the various levels of Dyson's Delve, quite inspirational for the dungeon stocker in me. Then there are the random tables covering everything from polearms to lost cities, all thoroughly enjoyable and most even useful.

So aside from singing Dyson's praises, why make a post about this? Well, now I wonder what I've been missing on other "famous" D&D-type blogs. Should I go ahead and schedule a few weeks to read all of Joe Bloch, Robert Conley, and Wayne Rossi? I probably won't get cookies from them either, will I? But what if I don't read them now and they disappear next month? If we're lucky the WayBack Machine has them archived forever in the way we got lucky with philotomy.com. But who's to say? I guess I am getting old and weird, worrying about preserving the collective genius out there. Does anyone else worry about the same thing?

Anyway, I am off to buy myself a cookie now...

6 comments:

  1. A few years ago I wrote a blog post about blognapping. Some experience with the command-line required. https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-05-31_Blognapping

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    1. I would have tried a recursive wget first, but you're right of course: If I am so worried about things disappearing, I should be backing them up myself. :-)

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  2. I learned to bake my grandma's chocolate chip cookies is that the type of cookie you are looking for? ;-)

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  3. What's your mailing address?

    Cookie may be incoming.

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    1. I appreciate the gesture Dyson, no cookies needed aside from all the maps that already fill my RAID now. :-)

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