If This Is Tuesday, I Must Be Talking About Friday
It’s been a while since I’ve had a regular Friday feature here on the old blog. Most recently I did the survey of narrative beat types, as will appear in Hamlet’s Hit Points. Before that was the epic-length Hamlet beat analysis itself. Further back, there was Angels and Operators, the experimental play-by-blog game.
Committing a day a week to a recurring feature has its cons and pros. Feature pieces take longer to write. On the other hand, they take pressure off the continual hunt for topics.
I’m considering three possible Friday features and seek your collective input into the final choice.
The first candidate: an experimental exercise in comment-based group setting creation, probably leading into a play-by-blog based in that world. Unlike Angels and Operators, the gaming component would not be a branching narrative starring a single protagonist. Instead it would unfold as a saga following the progress of an entire social movement.
Candidate two: to coincide with the imminent release of Hamlet’s Hit Points, a beat analysis of a classic H. P. Lovecraft short story. I’ll use a poll to choose the story from a short list, focused on the later classic Mythos tales.
The third possible choice would be a continuation of the recent GMing Q&A series, but with questions solicited from blog readers. The focus would be on general GMing issues rather than rules questions for specific games, industry analysis, or broad philosophical sojourns. Of course I could always choose to address other questions outside the Friday feature.
Or perhaps the entire prospect of a regular end-of-week feature fills you with dread and ennui.
What say you?
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