Thursday, November 11, 2010

If I write, will they read?

I am always wondering what kind of stuff to write on these blogs. What do people want to read?

I was surprised at Pentacon by the player reaction to the way that I ran the game when Battle Sight was active.

I always think of GMing as a cooperative effort between the GM and the players. When a group establishes a Link it changes some of my explanations as a GM because the players are passing information back and forth at the speed of thought. When they activated Battle Sight it changed their perception of the world and I reflected that by expanding my explanations to the group.

What I did was to respond to my version of Battle Sight by writing it up on the DS blog. Now I want to know if this is the type of information that people are looking for in a blog.

The first reaction I got to this question was "I would like it as one of your Podcasts, I don't read blogs much. I miss the podcasts."

I could do this type of piece as both a blog piece and a podcast. In fact My little brain cell already has a thought on how to do the Battle Sight as a podcast.

Now I am going to stop writing this and await your thoughts..

-- Post From My iPad

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

While some people appreciate your thoughts in podcast form, I as a techno-dinosaur prefer the blog. the blog allows me to read and digest things at a pace I can handle, it allows me easier ability to go back and reveiw only the parts that I need to re-veiw easier, etc. When you do podcast only, I still have to go back and write it down for future reference only now it takes longer as I keep starting and stopping the podcast, trying to repeat things, and generally get frustrated since I am not a person who come close to taking dictation. I always miss my cor roles and have a low wis. score...

FirestarAROC4 said...

Blog is great. I don't always respond, but I read each post. Podcast is too involved for me esp when I check the site at the office.

Your line of "this is how I run these cards" is excellent. Sometimes intent is lost when the idea is put to the card and it's a good way of the creator getting out the intent. I really like when I read one and say to myself, "that's exactly how I run it!"

MarkEllisHarmon said...

This helps me consider what to do.

We do have two audiences and I hear more from the Podcast people than the Blog readers. I have no idea why and when I try to figure out such things my head hurts.

Pixiejorge. I understand the techno-dinosaur preference. It even makes sense, but some of us are just too excited about all of the possibilities in todays world. I feel like a kid in the candy store :)
Someday I will grow up, but not now!