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RE: Rare Topics Challenge: Inaugural post about my love story with dnd and other rpgs
Ironically, I think my entire history on Steemit is posting about unusual topics. I've made a few posts about game theory and its interaction with the Steemit reward system, but by and large I've written about role-playing games, video games, and no fast food.
In fact, I wrote a rather long article talking about GM-less role-playing and systems which are good for doing so (including Microscope, which I can't recommend enough) and a much longer two-part article on doing character generation for both Capes and Sorcerer.
Also I do some stuff about 3D design and 3D printing, but my passion is real role-playing games outside of the traditional architecture.
I suspect you might find a thing or two you like over there.
Keep the faith!
Yeah Microscope is great :)
Ultimately I want people to talk about more things than cryptocurrencies here. Hopefully someone decides to join this challenge and do a better post than me :)
I've been trying to pull together as many people who write about role-playing games as I can in my feed, to some slight avail. There's at least one other published RPG author on the platform, a few other people who are really excited about the prospect of GM-less RPGing, and now you.
Unfortunately, the platform has a little bit of an incestual relationship with content creation. Articles about cryptocurrencies get the most upvotes, and as a result get the most fiscal rewards, and as a result get more people voting on them in order to chase the Dragon of curation reward – which is it based on whether you give people content that they want but only on whether you upvote content that other people upvote.
As a player of games, you can immediately see the problem.
That doesn't keep us from expanding our own little community, and so we shall.
I have @GINAbot set up to alert me whenever the word "roleplaying" is used on any post on the platform. You would be surprised how little that triggers, though as a result I can track anytime someone brings up the subject anywhere.
Really, when I say it out loud – it's kind of creepy.
Regardless, that's how I got here and I'm glad that I could provide you with some entertainment.
Well that's why I chose this topic, searching the #rpg and #dnd tags I saw that they were mostly empty.
That is probably the worst part of steemit, that the topics spoken about are very heavily skewed towards whats profitable at the time. Not sure what would be a solution maybe some sort of higher vote weight for the topics with less upvotes. Not sure if its possible to implement without the system getting gamed.
I've written some stuff that is pretty critical of the current mechanical situation on both Steemit and the STEEM blockchain in general (which you can read as much of his you like by going to my profile and then looking at my Comments tab), but the obsession with "chasing the Dragon" as I put it leads to some really unhealthy community behaviors. Along with the Whale Wars (organized groups of high Steem Power users and swarms of bots who have ideological differences with one another and get into down vote wars, with average users caught in the middle).
It would be a great set up for an RPG if it wasn't so horribly real. (In fact, I think FreeMarket even fails to capture the true dystopian nature of it.)
There is some talk about implementing Communities as an inherent part of the way that the interface works and that will help a lot – if it ever happens. Until then we can sort of use the tools that we have to discover and re-steem content that we like. That's about all we can do.
haha yeah. My topics, while some are not rare, some of them are certainly rare :) I just write what inspires me at that moment, most of the time.
Same with me here i put my inspiration into writing..