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New Patreon Goal!
🕑 Added 2018-01-09 15:32:46 +0000 UTC I’m excited to announce our next Patreon goal: a daily Gauntlet blog. When you look at everything that makes up the Gauntlet–our podcast network, Gauntlet Hangouts, Codex, our fantastic community resources–a blog sticks out as something we should have, but curiously do not. There are a few reasons why we never went the blog route, but most of them boil down to this: in the early days of the Gauntlet, we were a private club with no interest in communicating with anyone other than our members. Obviously, that began to change at a certain point, particularly when we began producing The Gauntlet Podcast.Here are some reasons why a daily Gauntlet blog is a really exciting idea:
1) Our community is filled with people who have interesting ideas about roleplaying games. We’re a community of players, GMs, and game designers who are extremely active in the hobby. And unlike a lot of other outfits, we don’t just discuss our ideas, we test them out and put them into action. A daily blog will allow our awesome community of Gauntleteers to convey their ideas to a larger audience.
2) Piggybacking with the first point, blog posts are more shareable. At present, our discussions take place as either G+ posts, Slack discussion channels, or podcast conversations, none of which are easy to point to if someone asks about them. I have lost count of the number of times people have asked me to explain the CATS technique, Painting the Scene, my 7-3-1 GM prep, and many other things. Blog posts on these topics will help us disseminate this information more widely and more effectively.
3) There simply aren’t many blogs or sites that cover the specific areas we do. Certain topics, such as Powered by the Apocalypse games, emotional play, the intersection of traditional games and indie games, and much more, are wide open for us to make a mark.
4) A daily blog is an efficient way of giving a platform to creators from marginalized communities. Our podcasts, most of which have long lead times and a very specific content focus, have never been a great way of doing this.
So with all that said, we’re setting the daily blog as our $2,000 Patreon goal. In the meantime, if you have any ideas for what this blog should look like (or if you know of some great blogging resources), please let us know in the comments!
Comments
I'll read this!
Ferrell Travis Riley
You're a madman! Here's looking forward to breaking 2k in the next month!
