100 Posts In

     This marks the 100th post on my blog. If I had stuck to what I wanted to be doing when I first started this blog, which was posts every 2-3 days, I would have already reached 100 posts. Instead, I am finding myself almost two years deep into blogging my thoughts on gaming, my house-rules, my AARs (or, at this point, my player's AARs), and other things that come to mind.

    A lot has happened since I made that first post introducing myself! I have played in a few games, though only a few of them were memorable enough to make me think of them fondly, and I have ran (and stopped running) many GURPS games. I have also started and stopped many world building projects, which usually get dissected and put into the next project.

    I have also started playing with rules that I would have yelled at myself for using two years ago: Conditional Injury, the Armor Design pyramid articles, T-Bone's GLAIVE, and many other rules (and house rules!) that I think are sick. They also provide that mechanical depth that I was seeking in those departments which I was sorely trying to recreate on my end. 

     I've also started and contributed to a few projects in the GURPS community. The more important one is Ptolemy's Elder Scrolls conversion. He converted almost all of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind into GURPS, going so far as to even make everything in GCS for ease of use. I can say that I have used it in a one-shot and it was really good. Character building was fast and easy and made sense. Impressive.

    On a technical basis, some things that I find impressive have happened. The first is that I have (apparently) accumulated over 1,700 views on one of my old blog posts and have over 11,000 views on my blog overall. What?! That many people have read what I have to say? Still blows my mind. 

    Going into the future, I am going to continue posting after-action reports as well as whatever else comes to mind. Whatever I did early on in my blogging days isn't super indicative of my writing style or actual intentions when it comes to blogging now.

    Finally, I would like to thank some people. Ethan and Void, first and foremost. These two guys are the first people I run to when I am looking for players and are great friends outside of gaming. Ptolemy as well; we tend to spend a lot of time talking about GURPS as well as other interesting topics. Teragen, for being one of the funniest (and most fiscal) players at most of my tables. My dedicated IRL players, who know who they are, should also be mentioned, for putting up with players dropping every session. Finally, I would like to thank Lop, who doesn't play with us anymore, but is someone that has helped me with tons of stuff with GURPS and otherwise.

Writing on Royal Road

     Hey y'all. I have been trying to get back into writing as a hobby (as in, writing fantasy stories), so I went asking around and found a neat place to upload stories. I will try to write here as well, but most technical and worldbuilding stuff is hard to write as another project usually takes precedent due to me jumping around. Anyway, the link to the first story is here and I will work on uploading more of the story there. It takes place in my Zirkeon world that I have been working on, which I might publish stuff about there, but not sure yet. Take care y'all, and thank you for reading.

Where I've Been

     As you might notice, my regular blogging had ceased without warning. To get the big questions out of the way, I DO intend to return to blogging at a usual schedule. Eventually. I have been in a battle with my mental health, barely navigating social issues I have been dealing with, and suffering from burnout. I haven't even had energy to update my Play by Post games, which is unlike me. Do not fear, however! For I have been plotting and planning new things and exciting items to post on this blog! Including the beginnings of a story, which if I actually get around to it, will be a sort of "fan fiction" about some characters I have made and GM'ed for over the months I have played RimWorld in GURPS. 

    Finally, I'd like to thank y'all for reading the blog (or at least looking at it) in my absence. Being able to say I have a blog about GURPS that people read is really cool and makes me feel more like a respected member of the community (even if no one knows my name or knows of this blog!) Again, thank you guys.

Blog Update 12/16/24

     Going to take another break today, it's another day of celebration here. I will still make a "mini post" as I have some things to share. I am super excited to go into the new year, though, I am moving into a twice-per-week schedule. Once on Thursday and once on Sunday. As of today, one of my posts hit *fifty reads!* This is insanely impressive and awesome to me; I never thought my writing would be that interesting to people! In addition, recently, my blog hit five hundred total views! 

    I have views from Germany, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and even Luxembourg! Thank you to everyone who has read my blog so far; it is one of my main motivators. If you want to see anything or hear anything on my blog, let me know, I have taken requests from readers for posts before, and they have come out great. Have a great new year y'all, I will see you next Sunday!