Blog Post 50th: The 50th Post Celebration!

This is my 50th blog post! Huzzah! This is a milestone if there every was one! Time to celebrate. Normally for these types of things, you're suppose to do a big event or something special. I originally planed on doing a blot post about making a F.A.T.A.L character as a ridiculous promotional stunt. My experience on the internet taught me that doing things that are torturous to yourself always draws a decent crowd. However, to get the F.A.T.A.L. rule set, I need to use a torrent. I’m not comfortable using torrents so I decided to not do it. Another reason is that it’s the F.A.T.A.L. rule set! It’s considered the most horrible RPG game ever to be created! Forgive me for not wanting to subject myself to reading it. That means I’ll have to do something else.

First off, I can make a few announcements. In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been making a few additions and changes around here. I added an intro page and new categories to make navigating my blog easier for you. Expect more improvements to randomly pop up in the future. Making these improvements means that the blog have been too meta-ish lately. Sorry about that but rest assured, more RPG-related stuff will come soon.

Now I would like to give you some random and pointless statistics about my blog. As of Augest 28, 2009, my blog is Enword’s 6th largest blog (in terms of number of blog posts). That means my blog is larger then about 97 percent of other Enworld blogs. Off the 232 blogs here on Enworld, about half of them have less then 5 blog posts. All my blog posts take up about 2.7 percent of the total number of blog post here on Enworld. Isn’t math fun?

For those of you who managed to get this far (or managed to just skip here), you efforts won’t be in vain. I also decided to celebrate my 50th blog post with a contest! This is your chance to win some RPG related material! Here are the rules…

1. Make a comment here on what I should do for my 100th Blog Post Celebration. If you can’t think of something for that, a suggestion on what else you would like to see on my blog will be fine as well.

2. At the end of October, I’ll select some winners. Winners will be selected by random selection (aka I roll some dice) and/or by the suggestion I like the best.

3. I’ll make a Blog Post announcing the winners. The winners will PM me their addresses (since I’ll need to know your address to send you your prizes) as well as what they want from the prize pool. I only got one copy of each listed prize, so it’s first come, first serve. The lower you place, the more alternatives you should have. I then mail what you picked to you.

4. The prize pool currently is: The Advanced Player’s Guide, Khyber’s Harvest, Punjar: The Tarnished Jewel, Hearts of Choas/Immortal Heros, Pathfinder’s Bonus Bestiary, and The Village of Hommlet (4th Edition Version).

5. I’m playing this by ear, so expect changes as they are needed. This includes changing rules, upgrading/changing prizes and other adjustments. As this point, I don't think I'll need to change much but you never know. Note that I don’t exactly have a large budget for this so expect modest prizes at best.

Lastly, thanks to all of you who read my blog so far. It’s nice to have people read what you wrote. I hoped you all enjoyed yourselfs so far. I’m looking forward to the next 50 blog posts.