Bloggies Breakdown: Round 2
After the second Bloggies Blog Bath: Who won? And by how much?
Bloggies Round 2 is over...
The playing field has been reduced by half again, and voting for the next round has already started. I've broken every category into its own section. You can find the results in this post, or by visiting this year's official home page, which includes the next round of voting.
Clayton Notestine
Advice Category
This category includes advice for play, prep, publishing, and more.
🏆 Writing Rooms in Pairs: 58.8% (97)
❌ Ten Intangible Tips for Development Editing Your RPG Manuscript 41.2% (68)
❌ A Lock With No Key: Designing Obstacles for OSR Play 44.6% (75)
🏆 make better mind pictures 55.4% (93)
🏆 How to Replicate Over/Under 52% (90)
❌ Look Before You Leap 48% (83)
❌ Action-Oriented Interaction 47.5% (75)
🏆 Less Combat… More Obstacles 52.5% (83)
Critique Category
This category includes critical analysis of books, games, adventures, and more.
🏆 Mausritter, Wargame 54.2% (64)
❌ Playing the Chaplain's Game 45.8% (54)
🏆 Review of Initiative Methods 59.7% (74)
❌ B1 and Toyetic Dungeon Rooms 40.3% (50)
❌ Monster, Maiden, Madonna, Medusa 46.4% (58)
🏆 How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons 53.6% (67)
🏆 Arthurian Mysticism and Violence: a Mythic Bastionland Analysis 59.2% (71)
❌ I Read Spine 40.8% (49)
Gameable Category
This category includes ready-to-use rules, monsters, and more.
🏆 RANDOM ENCOUNTER TABLES AS ADVENTURE RAM: Adding “Memory” To Encounter Checks 69.2% (110)
❌ Stacking The Deck – Mining Fallout: New Vegas for TTRPG Setting Ideas 30.8% (49)
🏆 Promises - a Mythic Bastionland House Rule 60.6% (103)
❌ Let’s Make a Forest 39.4% (67)
❌ 1d20 Diegetic Rules, 1d20 Hypo-Diegetic Rules 47% (78)
🏆 Just Use Bears… Or Wolves, Dragons or Spiders 53% (88)
🏆 Anti-colonial Dungeon 67.5% (110)
❌ [HMTW] Using Divination to Generate a Character 32.5% (53)
Theory Category
This category is all about systems, mechanics, gameplay, and more.
🏆 WHY MEGADUNGEONS? A Campaign Structure for Modern Lives 55.3% (78)
❌ Everything is Pointcrawl! 44.7% (63)
❌ Why Orcs? Or, Why Do I Love Orcs? 49.3% (66)
🏆 The Star-Pattern: a Pitfall of GMing 50.7% (68)
🏆 The 10 Types of Special Rooms 53.8% (71)
❌ There is a point to Tom Bombadil (or how I approach lore) 46.2% (61)
🏆 Combat As My Balls 58% (80)
❌ [An OSR Pattern] One, Two, or Three Exits 42% (58)
Meta Category
An all new category for ideas about taxonomy, creativity, and beyond.
🏆 Mapping the Blogosphere 61.1% (88)
❌ The OSR Onion 38.9% (56)
❌ The 1E Manifesto 48.9% (66)
🏆 Don’t wait to create, don’t wait to learn 51.1% (69)
🏆 Close and Distant Playstyles 53.3% (72)
❌ Faggot Games: An Urgent Warning 46.7% (63)
🏆 the default dungeon is colonial 58.6% (78)
❌ The Five Laws of Roleplaying Games 41.4% (55)
Conclusion
That's everything for Round 2. If you're reading this, that means round 3 is already underway. You can find the latest news, standings, and voting at this year's Bloggies homepage.
Godspeed, Bloggies Voters.
Clayton Notestine
