How many story hours do you follow?

[Desdichado]

2) Joshua Dyal's - ahoy. I've got my popcorn

Arrr! Welcome aboard, me bucko!

 

[barsoomcore]

I, alas, don't have the time, it seems. Funny how getting fired means you have LESS time than before.

I try to hit ledded's WW2 story hour semi-regularly, and JD's Dark Heritage (well behind right now). If jonrog1 ever updates again I'll be all over that. I'm way behind on OldDrewID's Medallionsd20 and will spend a weekend one of these days catching up, cause it rocks on toast.

 

[Droid101]

Seriously? Cause, like, I'll check you out. I love story hours with frequent updates.

Hoorah, a viewer. Until he actually reads it, then he'll know to avoid it.

 

[Zappo]

Eeehk! There's no option for "three"!

...well, I voted less than three, I guess that you meant "less than four".

Piratecat, Blackdirge ("dretch -> demonlord"; update dammit!), and Shemes(h)ka. I occasionally skim one at random, but I avoid the other famous ones because I'm mortally afraid of losing another precious chunk of my spare time through reading 60+ pages of story hour.

 

[Puppy Kicker]

...
3) Puppy Kickers - epic name, better story
...
Spider

Yay, props!

I actually tend to read the newer story hours, now. I got in with Drunk Southern Girls and Medallions, but some of the really big ones just scare me off. So much reading at one time! Pity, because some of them are just fantastic, from the bit I've seen of them. When I find the time to sit down and digest years worth of story hour I'll be hitting those novels.

 

[haiiro]

I follow 4 SHs, but I tend to read in big chunks rather than checking in regularly (and I often get waaay behind).

My shortlist: Piratecat's, Ice, Luck & Honour (Spider Jerusalem), X-PATH (Capellan), and Scinterlands (Roquesdoodle). Great stuff!

Edit: Thanks for the comment, Spider. (Glad to know I'm a grower, not a shower. )

As far as been daunted by trying to catch up on established SHs goes, that certainly affects my reading habits. For mine, I'm planning to write a "the story so far" type of summary at some point, and link to it in the first post. Don't want to wade through it all? Just jump in at #89 and keep on trucking. We'll see if it works.

 

[doghead]

One regularly (Welcome to the Halme).

If things are quiet on the PbP front and I have some time on my hands, I'll drop in here. I've read chunks of some other SH's, and finished a few. As I don't know when I'm going to get back here again, I tend to go for the new ones as I can finish them in one sitting.

I don't think I've ever read PC's SH.

BTW, what defines an 'indie' SH.

 

[Desdichado]

BTW, what defines an 'indie' SH.

Uh, that was a bit of a joke on my part, really. Anything that's not by PirateCat, Sepulchrave, Wulf Ratbane, nemmerle, (contact) or one of those other big names is indie, because, hey, it's not by one of those guys. If it's non-traditional D&D, it gets indie points as well.

Main Entry: in·die
Pronunciation: 'in-dE
Function: noun
Etymology: by shortening & alteration from independent
: something (as an unaffiliated record or motion-picture production company) independent
- indie adjective

PS: Forgot to mention; although I haven't checked in lately, I'm a huge fan of drnuncheon's Story Hours as well. Great stuff; exactly the kinds of games I like to play in, and well written.

PPS: barsoomcore; you better get on the stick; I've got another update halfway typed up. Unless work totally swamps me today, I'll post it in a few hours.

 

[Wisdom Penalty]

From Webster's:

Indie
Noun - a pop group not affiliated with a major record company
Adj - (of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company


since story hour authors are pretty much identical to globe-trotting rock gods, we could adjust that to:

Indie
Noun - a story hour author not affiliated with a publishing company
Adj - (of story hour authors) not affiliated with a publishing company

with this more applicable definition, we can safely toss the following names out of the indie category:

destan - different worlds publications
piratecat - of sound mind
wulf ratbane - bad axe games
jonrog1 - (someone mentioned he's a professional writer, yes?)

everyone else is fair game! so you can read your "indie" story hours and feel cool about it (just don't read any from the four authors above!).

W.P.

 

[pogre]

I have always wondered how many folks "cruise" the story hour board. Right now there are 66 responses to this poll - that's not a ton of people for new sh authors to draw from. I suspect most readers check in once a week and see if their favorites have been updated. If they have not they move on.