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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Girl Genius Day
Jeff Grubb has initiated a wonderful blog-o-spheric mad scientist experiment on behalf of Phil & Kaja Foglio's very excellent web-comic Girl Genius. Essentially, if you're at all interested in the new novelization of Agatha H.'s origin story--Agatha H and the Airship City, go to Nightshade Books or Amazon and buy it today. It's Mr. Grubb's hope that this effort will produce a nice and noticeable spike in sales for Kaja's birthday. How Old School cool is that?
A Not So Bad Thought...
We just posted this comment over at the Ostensible Cat blog:
"We've been kind of wondering why there wasn't a collaborative megadungeon project being coordinated amongst all the OSR blogs, each one developing a specific level and bringing it all together as a shared, open source public-domain group effort. Maybe that's an idea that might be worth revisiting in 2011..."
Did something like this already occur and we missed it? If so, can someone point it out to us?
Thanks!
EDIT
What we have in mind is a cross-blog exercise along the lines of the Open World gaming that Chris over at Hill Cantons has been talking about, only starting from a slightly different angle by attempting to develop a cross-blog open world megadungeon. The current Domain-Level Playtest is an awesome and wonderful thing. This idea would dove-tail directly into that effort, kind of like how Blair's Black Ziggurat. Remember that?
"We've been kind of wondering why there wasn't a collaborative megadungeon project being coordinated amongst all the OSR blogs, each one developing a specific level and bringing it all together as a shared, open source public-domain group effort. Maybe that's an idea that might be worth revisiting in 2011..."
Did something like this already occur and we missed it? If so, can someone point it out to us?
Thanks!
EDIT
What we have in mind is a cross-blog exercise along the lines of the Open World gaming that Chris over at Hill Cantons has been talking about, only starting from a slightly different angle by attempting to develop a cross-blog open world megadungeon. The current Domain-Level Playtest is an awesome and wonderful thing. This idea would dove-tail directly into that effort, kind of like how Blair's Black Ziggurat. Remember that?
Keeping the World Strange
If you are a fan of Warren Ellis, click here to find out about the Year of Ellis.
Everyone else can just skip it.
Everyone else can just skip it.
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