I tweet and I blog, yet some ideas are the wrong size or shape for those places.

So here I am, becoming entumbled. Yes, I have started a tumblr. It’s called Worldforge.

I plan on posting ideas and thoughts there that don’t have anywhere else to go. Sometimes they will be something I think is great. Sometimes they’ll just be something I need out of my head. Some will be about roleplaying games or stories or other worlds. Some will be about whatever.

Sometimes I see pictures and things I want to interpret and comment on: an ecology for a creature, the origins of an item, what’s going on in the place depicted. Those sorts of things. You may see them here from time to time. I’ve already done some Dungeon World stats for some cool art I found online of a creature called The Mushroom King (yes, you can see Alice in the foreground of the artwork, but I was imagining the thing about the size of a wagon. So I say that’s shrunken Alice, not giant mushrooms… though maybe there is a giant Grand High Mushroom King. Who knows?).

Other things are likely to appear from the Worldforge too.

Right now, it is all experimental. What could possibly go wrong?

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So, that’s paraphrasing my introductory post on my tumblr from yesterday. Why do I need to tweet, blog and now tumble, too? Mostly because I have some ideas or sometimes find cool things, that are too big to tweet but that I don’t feel warrant a post here. As I said, it’s also an experiment. You’ll find non-roleplaying stuff there too.

Anyway, if you’re interested, my tumblr tweets every post I make, so you can grab the RSS of Worldforge or just follow me on Twitter. I hope that tumbling will let me make and share some new and different content.

Thanks, as always, for reading.

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Saw this word cloud maker on Google+ recently and threw my website in there.
Here’s a word cloud of what I’ve been saying here.

Click to embiggen

Obviously, Reverb Gamers is prominent after a month of posts. Some of the other words are just things tacked onto the end of each post. But it’s  interesting to me to see the size of the other words to give myself an idea of the content I’ve been putting out.

Just for fun, here are the Wikipedia articles for role-playing games, magic, zombies, superheroes, cthulhu mythos deities, and Bas-Lag. Click any of them to enlarge. Favourite thing out of this: Batman is hanging upside-down in grey just under ‘comics’. Continue reading…

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• Ben Lehman is experimenting with a “Pay-What-You-Like” model for Polaris and Bliss Stage http://bit.ly/hgmNg #rpg
• The Walking Dead just keeps getting better and better. It is very inspiring for roleplaying games. Apocalypse World maybe? #rpg
• 40,024! Caught up! Finally some exciting stuff is happening. I think this scene should’ve started 30,000 words ago, but oh well #nanowrimo
• RT @fredhicks “Bandwidth II http://www.deadlyfredly.com/2010/11/bandwidth-ii/” Awesome superheroes idea: radio broadcast super powers #rpg
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• Double rainbow! OMG! http://yfrog.com/evr88yj
• I managed to do 623 words at lunch today. That’ll do. I’m still almost two days ahead. Now time for #pathfinder and Chinese!
• This http://bit.ly/d4A1sI made me investigate ICONS then this http://bit.ly/a6iLnb and the currently half-price PDF made me buy it #rpg

• 2,261 words for #nanowrimo already! Unlike my MC, my week is off to a good start.
• 4,607 words for #nanowrimo and the fun is about to begin for my main character.
• Adding “Write 2000 words” into Epic Win as a daily task is motivating. Also add this optional daily task: “Write 2000 more words” #nanowrimo
• RT @Riesetheseries Don’t forget RT this message to possibly win an EXCLUSIVE #Riese prize pack! Watch Riese: Kingdom Falling on @Syfy.com/riese
• Lamest/coolest lycanthrope ever: the werecrossbow.
• I was going to try 4E again once Character Builder got the Essentials update, but I have unreliable Internet so a web-based CB rules me out.
• After watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang again, I have to say that Robert Downey Jr. would make an incredible Harry Dresden.

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• So, my estranged Internet has finally returned to me… but for how long?

• Reveal of psychopathic split-personality BBEG in #pathfinder game made my entire group recoil in chairs and go “Ohhh… $#&%!” I love GMing!
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I’ve just started using TiddlyWiki for worldbuilding and it is such an excellent tool that I just had to post about it. If you haven’t heard of it, it is a free downloadable and portable personal wiki that can be used offline.

I love worldbuilding, but the problem with that is that I just want to keep on building. I get an idea and make a setting, then I have another idea that doesn’t fit with the setting we’re now using, or a sci-fi device while we’re playing fantasy, or something else that just doesn’t fit. So, I write it down for later. Using a basic Word document is fine, but it is static. Using a wiki allows you to link anything to anything else.

Alright, so I don’t have an iPhone or anything like that and my Internet connection can be as unstable as a wild mage. Nevertheless, I’m going to try using Twitter to complement this website. Stuff like what’s currently happening at the Project Donut twitter and the sort of thing Gnome Stew and Critical Hits do on theirs. That’s the plan, anyway. We’ll see how it goes. I’m also planning to give Echo Bazaar a go. It looks pretty cool.

You’ll also notice that there’s a brand new Twitter icon up at the top of our site. You can click that to check out my tweets and tweet back at me. I’m also trialling having the twitter feed right here on the site, too. I’ll try to keep Vam away from it, but I think that move is destined to fail. I’ll at least make sure his tweets are tagged with #fromvam so you can indulge in or avoid his madness at your leisure.

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