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I'm doing setting work for the Olden Domain campaign today, dealing with some online auctions, answering email (I have email three months old that I haven't answered yet), and preparing another Big Article that might be ready over the weekend or the beginning of next week. I'll likely have smaller tidbits over the next few days (for sure an I Play after Friday's game and probably after Sunday's as well), but until then...
A reader survey!
Are you a regular reader?
If so, how did you originally find the LotFP: RPG blog?
What made you decide to become a regular reader?
Not only am I curious, but I figure it never hurts to try something that might let people know what blog readers are after, considering that I get the feeling that most of the people that read these blogs are bloggers themselves. Or it just seems that way judging by who leaves comments... I've also been reading a lot of "advice for bloggers" type of thing (always looking for hints and tips on everything...), and I find I disagree with much of it, and I find that "experts" giving "advice" on social phenomena are gearing towards the average, and not niche, topics and activities. And half of what they say ("Be opinionated!"), I have a feeling they don't really mean it, because sixty-five times out of a hundred (very official and exact!) it's always those friendly, helpful fucks who are the first to be offended by an unfiltered opinion.
I'm doing setting work for the Olden Domain campaign today, dealing with some online auctions, answering email (I have email three months old that I haven't answered yet), and preparing another Big Article that might be ready over the weekend or the beginning of next week. I'll likely have smaller tidbits over the next few days (for sure an I Play after Friday's game and probably after Sunday's as well), but until then...
A reader survey!
Are you a regular reader?
If so, how did you originally find the LotFP: RPG blog?
What made you decide to become a regular reader?
Not only am I curious, but I figure it never hurts to try something that might let people know what blog readers are after, considering that I get the feeling that most of the people that read these blogs are bloggers themselves. Or it just seems that way judging by who leaves comments... I've also been reading a lot of "advice for bloggers" type of thing (always looking for hints and tips on everything...), and I find I disagree with much of it, and I find that "experts" giving "advice" on social phenomena are gearing towards the average, and not niche, topics and activities. And half of what they say ("Be opinionated!"), I have a feeling they don't really mean it, because sixty-five times out of a hundred (very official and exact!) it's always those friendly, helpful fucks who are the first to be offended by an unfiltered opinion.
I think I found you from RPG.net, from your sig file there. If not, it was either from a post you left on my blog, or a link from Grognardia, the blogfather of the Old School scene. And your interest in Old School intrigued me, but not as much as how you kinda-sorta agree with my take on things, but not quite. There's enough English put on your opinions, as compared to mine, to make it fascinating.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, continue to be opinionated. I came for the new perspective, I stayed for the foaming-at-mouth, take-no-prisoners fun. ;)
- Brian, aka Trollsmyth
I don't remember anymore. Must have been a blogroll or comment link. I stayed because of my interest in simpler rules and GM stuff: preparing adventures, finding players, running games, random tables, and rants about forum threads I would not otherwise stumble upon.
ReplyDeleteI think I found you through a blogroll. Most likely Grognardia, that or through Dragonsfoot forums.
ReplyDeleteI think an rpg.net signature.
ReplyDeleteI like your blog because it isn't banal, like the friendly-advice-giving bloggers you mention.
I must have seen the "I Hate Fun" essay linked on RPGnet, and saw that you were interested in the whole old school gaming thing, put you on my blog list and started reading.
ReplyDeleteThe first article that I read was: "Is This How D&D is Supposed to be Played?" and I liked it. I came from another bolg, maybe Grognardia, but not sure. Your writtings seemed interesting, so I became regular. :-)
ReplyDeleteI found your blog once I started blogging myself, in someone's sidebar. I read daily through RSS feed, partially for your content and partially for the effect your content has on the excitable.
ReplyDeleteThe "increase your blog traffic!" advice I've seen is targeted at folks who want to make money at blogging, and are therefore fairly indiscriminate about what kind of traffic they get -- they just want lots of readers, no matter who they are.
I picked you up from the RPG Bloggers feed. I find myself doing a full read on many of your articles because you express your opinions well and seem to genuinely care about our hobby.
ReplyDeleteI usually just add a bunch of blogs to my feed, and then start taking out the ones I don't like. This one's still there.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm just one of those people who likes to see train wrecks and crying orphans...
ReplyDeleteI am a regular reader (subscriber), and I found you through a Google search (the terms are lost to the haze of memory).
ReplyDeleteMy primary reasons for coming back are:
1) Your articles are very well written
2) I respect your opinion on how the game should be played (but don't always agree).
3) Your wit is very sharp and your writing usually elicits a chuckle from me.
Whatever you're doing, keep doing it.
I found you through Grognardia. I like opinions and commentary, even when I don't agree with it (I have to have SOMETHING to rant against) but I find myself agreeing with you more than disagreeing.
ReplyDeletePlus, I keep hoping for Finnish porn on your site, like Evil DM posting the pics of the hotties. *shrug* I'm weird, what can I say?
Probably came here through a link in another blog, maybe Trollsmyth or Grognardia; I remembered your handle from a 101 Days of AD&D thread you started on RPG.net, so I was happy to see you had a blog.
ReplyDeleteI've kept coming back because your posts are almost always thought-provoking and/or entertaining.
Yes, Grognardia led me here, too. I read because it's nice to know there's someone more cranky than I am and your posts make me feel like gaming again. (Well, all except this one.)
ReplyDeleteGrognardia.
ReplyDeleteI was skimming through his blog list, and I came to yours. After reading through a couple of entries, I thought, "this is a little different..I am going to have to keep an eye on this one."
:)
I found it from somebody's blog, I'm sure. They had linked to something you had to say, and I read it and was impressed.
ReplyDeleteI don't always agree with what you say, but I'm always entertained by it.
And that's why I'm a regular reader.
Found you through Grognardia, and kept reading regularly mostly because of AP reports and advice about sandbox-style play.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I don't agree with your opinions, but they usually make me think and enrich my view of gaming.
I found you via a link from Grognardia, I think. I became a regular reader because your posts both irritate me and enlighten me - a good combination!
ReplyDeleteGrognardia, I think -- though if I remember I came in through several different sources, including Monsters and Manuals and Trollsmyth, before subscribing.
ReplyDeleteI read because of the angry. And the advice, too. But mostly the angry.
Unlike everyone else here, I'll say Grognardia. I think it was in the midst of the hubbub last fall regarding a certain Supplement V. I keep reading for the same reason I can't avert my eyes from a car accident. I mean that in a good way. It may be ranting, but it's passionate and reasoned ranting. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteRoundabout way from Knights & Knaves.
ReplyDeleteI think I found your blog around about the time you were explaining the problems you had encountered with the Shrine of Insect Hill and apologising for the fiasco with the preorders. I was mainly attracted by the Lamentations of the Flame Princess name (which I thought was cool, and strangely familiar), enjoyed reading what you were writing and wanted to see how things would end. I think this was probably the first blog I put into a feed (once I figured out how it worked).
ReplyDeleteVia some blogroll or post.
ReplyDeleteIntelligent content and opionated commentary delivered in a highly readable manner make this one of the good rpg blogs around.
Back in November, somebody posted a link to your "I can't find any players" article on the Finnish RPG forum majatalo.org. I read the piece and I've followed your blog since then. Your blog also introduced me to old school D&D.
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