The rampant expansion of the Old School Renaissance is driving me mad, mad I tell you! For nearly twenty years, I thought I was just about the last guy on earth who gave a crap about AD&D, or OD&D. I was pretty isolated, I guess. I just didn't run into anyone else who still played. I hadn't paid any attention to the internet since the late eighties, when it was all still bulletin boards and Zork. My wife finally insisted we get access, and so I start poking and googling around, and low and behold, Dragonsfoot.
I lurked there for years, then Knights & Knaves, Original D&D Discussion, more, more, blogs show up, It's an embarrassment of riches.
Now the game blogs are multiplying like Borg, I can't friggen keep up! I've only got a few listed in my side bar, but my gaming folder in my favorites on IE takes a 12 count to scroll to the bottom. I feel like I've been dragging myself across the desert for two decades and fallen into a gaming oasis. Now there are so many great sites, and bloggers, putting up so much great stuff, that I know I'm missing a lot of it. There isn't time in the day for me to hit all the rpg sites I like. It's maddening!
I can stuff myself on tasty new Old Guard gaming until d20s and character sheets come out my nose. I have to pace myself now, it's gotten to the point where I'm considering working out a blog visiting schedule, since I can only spend so much time online, and there's so much ground to cover.
Even the fights are awesome to me. So much eye-gouging and hair-pulling is only possible because the game is still important, and thus, still alive.
So, create, share, argue, discuss, theorize, and fight on you mad bastards, fight on!
Case in point. I just found YOUR blog today. It takes me hours to read everything anymore.
ReplyDeleteLong live "Old School"!
It's just nuts, isn't it? I love the flood of ideas, but I know I'm missing stuff since there's just no time to read it all. I suppose it's better than not having it at all though.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. When I started mine up in February last year, I swear there were only a handful. Now I find I am following 65 or so. Crazy. The thing that really irks me is there are so many that I sometimes forget to use the follow option. Either that or blogger drops the feed for some reason. I swear there are a couple I've had to add more than once...or maybe there are just so many now I'm losing it.
ReplyDeleteSham, glade to see you, I love the Grog n blog. I've seen followers disappear for a few days and then reappear. At first I thought I was pissing people off, now it just looks like a random fluctuation in the blogosphere.
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