Final Round: Stuffer Shack’s RPG Site of the Year Contest

...AND THEN I SAW THE COMPETITION!

So I managed to make it to the final round of Stuffer Shack’s RPG Site of the Year Contest. I want to thank everyone who generously voted for me. I recognize my luck in not facing some of these heavyweights in the earlier round. They had some amazing blogs and sites to check out. Online voting gave us five competitors:

• G*M*S Magazine
• Gnome Stew
• Kobold Press
• Nearly Enough Dice
• (and me)

These will be evaluated by Stuffer Shack's Judges and a winner selected. I hope there’s some feedback even for those who don’t win. I always like getting input and suggestions on my work here. If you have a chance, check out these sites as well as the others nominated.

Last week during the voting period I posted my pitch as well as my suggestions for further reading from my blog. I’ve been getting some additional hits from Stuffer Shack and ENWorld, so I thought I’d list a few of my other favorite posts and series.

• My "What the What?" Reviews Looking at Interesting Smaller RPGs: Orpheus, Fight!, Renaissance, and Mummy.
• My pseudo-published work: The winner of the RPG Geek 24-Hour RPG Contest with my entry, Arclight Revelation Tianmar and my DramaSystem pitch for Pelgrane Press’ See Page XX.
• 60 Shades of GM, my compiled list of names for gamemasters
• My guides for new gamers looking at GUMSHOE and Changeling the Lost. I hope to do more of these- and I hope some other bloggers might borrow this structure. There are a number of older games I’m interested in, but I don’t know what I ought to pick up.
• GM Techniques: Description; Creating Memorable NPCs; Table Management; Quitting; Backstories; and Sandboxes.
• Samurai Week
• The Worst GMs From Video Games
• Some of My Lists: Secrets, Rumors, and Hearsay: Player-Facing RPG Materials; By Sword, Spell and Spectre: Warfare in Fantasy RPGs; Cities of Steel: Superhero Urban Sourcebooks; Disastrous Games: RPGs & Cataclysms;and Boot to the Head: Martial Arts Treatments in RPGs

I really need to figure out a way to collect and consolidate the material on the blog. Labels help, but aren't that great. In any case, the results for Stuffer Shack's Contest will be announced Monday, April 29th. I think I'm clearly a dark horse in this, but it has been fun to get the blog out in front of some people who might not have seen it. I hope everyone finds something useful here.