Suggestions

So, as some people may have noticed, I missed my posting on Friday. Part of this was due to exhaustion, part of this was due to not having a good idea for what to blog about. I've got some half formed ideas in my head, but nothing solid enough yet to write a full post about. To help curtail this, I've created a suggestions page, link at the top of the page. If you have ideas for something you want to see posted, either singly or as a series, go ahead and comment on that page and I'll get an e-mail as soon as you do.

I've done fairly well so far, but I'm getting to a point where I think I need some help with the ideas, so post away up there and keep this project going!

Blog Relaunch

And I believe we're back.

It's been a busy and hectic month for me,  but I think I'm good to go.

My new campaign will be starting this coming weekend, so expect some notes on what is going in my campaign world as time progresses. My lovely wife will be playing and she agreed to guest author a post or two here about her experiences, so be looking forward to that.

I'll be going through old posts to see what series I had started and continue those.

This blog may expand beyond the D&D/Pathfinder systems, since my group has decided to involve other systems in our game rotation, including a system that Jimmy and I have created. So I will be trying to make the information for players and GM as system neutral as I can (except in specific instances when I feel the need to talk about something regarding one game system or another).


The posting schedule should remain the same; however, I am now the owner of a 4 month old puppy that seems to require a whole boatload of attention.

Brief Hiatus

I am putting Philosophia Polyhedra on a brief hiatus. I have a few other projects that I'm currently working on that I'd like to devote some more time to. I do fully intend to return to blogging in a few weeks, but at the moment, I don't have enough time to complete all the things I'd like to work on.

Keep on playing and trying new things.

Guest Author (Soonish)

I'll be starting a new campaign in two-ish weeks, after an rather enjoyable break playing in a short-term campaign (which has turned out to be completely awesome). Gearing up for a campaign is always a great deal of fun, since the game world is rife with possibilities for everything and watching the players pick paths within the game world, altering the world and events, is very rewarding.

What does this have to do with a guest author? Because of an amazing speech by my best man, including amendments to the wedding vows, my lovely wife is required to play in a D&D game. I've managed to convince her to give it more than one session so she can get a better feel for it than just one game.

I've also managed to convince her to blog about her experiences here. So she'll be writing a post or three about her experiences which I think will provide a nice chronicle of someone gaming for the first time. I think that's awesome.

Illness

Wednesday was missing a post because I was laid out for two days with random malaise. My apologies, I'll try to get some posts written in advance in case something like that happens again. Alignment discussion will continue next Wednesday.

I am bringing the Dirty Words to an end, but not closing the subject, as I think I've covered the majority of the negative stereotypes involved with metagaming. If someone has any ideas for continuing it, get with me to discuss it so I can see information that I haven't considered.

I'm currently accepting ideas for the next series for Fridays. If anyone has any suggestions, send them my way and I will gladly go over it.

We're light on content today, mostly because illness has thrown me completely off my game, even though I'm largely over it. On Monday we'll pick back up on Combat Roles.

Apologies for the missed post.

New Schedule

As of today, I'm setting up a new schedule for posting. I have been doing one post a day per workday since I began. I'm switching to a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule. This will give me more time to develop the various ideas I have and help me structure what I post.

For the near future, I will be finishing my series on Alignments, The Metagame, and Combat Roles. After that, we'll see what ideas spring up.


Until tomorrow!

Series Information

I'm going to try and provide some structure for the blog.

Right now, I've got the series on Alignments (Aligning Misconceptions). Other series I'm currently brewing over will be about specific monsters, thoughts on metagame, and going over various means for building characters and specific builds I've seen or made. If anyone else has any ideas, I'd be more than happy to run with them.

If anyone has any suggestions on podcasts to listen to or blogs to read, let me know. I'm currently working through some podcasts and would like to get more.

Tonight is very content light, but tomorrow I'll start the series on Metagame thoughts.