I’ve been doing public polling to find out what the readers are interested in. The winning topics get into essays I write. Here are the results so far in one place.
2020 January essay poll
winners “The RPG Theory of Storyboarding” and C2020 Redux
[January 2020] What should I write about in more depth?
- The RPG theory of storyboarding (21%, 18 Votes)
- Cyberpunk 2020 Redux (21%, 18 Votes)
- Pointbuy game design (14%, 12 Votes)
- Xianxia old school D&D (13%, 11 Votes)
- Subsection M3 (12%, 10 Votes)
- Review the D&D Immortals Rules (12%, 10 Votes)
- Boondoggle game design (5%, 4 Votes)
- Doing something worthwhile with Star Wars (2%, 2 Votes)
- Something or nothing else (specify in comments) (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 31
2020 February essay poll
winners C2020 Redux and “Pointbuy Game Design”
[February 2020] What should I write about in more depth?
- C2020 Redux: Character Creation Rules (18%, 16 Votes)
- Pointbuy game design (17%, 15 Votes)
- Subsection M3 (11%, 10 Votes)
- Using Mentzer Immortals for Xianxia D&D (11%, 10 Votes)
- Neoplatonic Hellraiser stuff (10%, 9 Votes)
- My Star Control RPG Notes (10%, 9 Votes)
- My Magic: the Gathering RPG Notes (9%, 8 Votes)
- Creative Safety - handling Lines and Veils (8%, 7 Votes)
- Blood Bowl RPG campaign and rules (2%, 2 Votes)
- Critical review of Batman comics (1%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 29
2020 March essay poll | winners “Observations on GNS Simulationism”, C2020 Redux and “Many Faces of Ars Magica”
[March 2020] What should I write about in more depth?
- [theory] Observations on GNS Simulationism (20%, 28 Votes)
- [design]More C2020 Redux (17%, 25 Votes)
- [design] Many Faces of Ars Magica (16%, 23 Votes)
- [design] Subsection M3 rules drafts (10%, 14 Votes)
- [theory] Musings on Game State in RPGs (10%, 14 Votes)
- [design] Xianxia with Mentzer Immortals (8%, 11 Votes)
- [theory] Creative Safety - handling Lines and Veils (7%, 10 Votes)
- [design] My Blood Bowl RPG notes (6%, 8 Votes)
- [writing] Magical Swordsmen Versus Fight Club (3%, 5 Votes)
- [design] 007 by the way of CRedux (3%, 4 Votes)
- [writing] Ecological '80s Superheroes, the setting (1%, 1 Votes)
- Something else (specify in comments) (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 45
2020 April was a break month
2020 May essay poll | winners “Historiography of D&D” and “Outlining an old school D&D book”
[May 2020] What should I write about in more depth?
- [theory] Historiography of D&D (19%, 32 Votes)
- [theory] The Sacrament of Death (17%, 29 Votes)
- [design] more C2020 Redux (16%, 26 Votes)
- [design] TSoY and SS update (14%, 23 Votes)
- [theory] A Big Model overview (10%, 16 Votes)
- [design] Microfit wargame (5%, 9 Votes)
- [writing] Chronicles of Prydain setting notes (5%, 8 Votes)
- [design] HX Fighter Program Wargame (4%, 7 Votes)
- [writing?] Hellraiser and Evangelical Christianity (4%, 7 Votes)
- [design] Let's get Subsection M3 moving again! (4%, 6 Votes)
- [practical] How to create online play tools in Google Sheets (2%, 4 Votes)
- [writing] Superhero Tulpas (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 61
2020 June essay poll | winners “The Sacrament of Death” and “Outlining an old school primer”
[June 2020] What should I write about in more depth?
- [theory] The Sacrament of Death (19%, 66 Votes)
- [theory] A Big Model overview (15%, 54 Votes)
- [theory] The semiotic significance of game mechanics in rpgs (14%, 51 Votes)
- [design] Notes on my Basic D&D homebrew (13%, 46 Votes)
- [design] more C2020 Redux (10%, 36 Votes)
- [design] Concepting the post-D&D adventure game (8%, 27 Votes)
- [design] TSoY and SS update (6%, 21 Votes)
- [design] Drafting an old school primer (5%, 18 Votes)
- [design] a Chronicles of Prydain wargame (4%, 14 Votes)
- [design] Coup de Main in Greyhawk campaign protocol (3%, 11 Votes)
- [design?] Put together some He-Man shit, for reals (2%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 145