Happy April Fools' Day. Be sure not to believe anything you read online today.
(I actually don't care much for April Fools' Day, myself. Most of the jokes and pranks people come up with for AFD fall a little flat for me. Hey! Here's a webpage that says the exact opposite of what our site says on the other 364 days of the year! Isn't that comedy gold!? Meh.)
On to the updates and whatnot...
March was another huge month for the blog with-- are you ready?-- 811 views. That's such a big number relative to what this blog has gotten in the past, I feel obligated to say that that is in fact real, and not an April Fools' joke. (February, if you'll recall, was the first month the blog broke 600 views, with 603. March blew that short-lived record away by more than a third. Woot woot!). As usual, the lion's share of this traffic was to the Numenera 2 Character Creator. Awareness of that page seems to be spreading among the broader Numenera community, which I think is fantastic. Lately I have been seeing a few referrals to that page from Facebook and Meetup, which, if I had to guess, is GMs sending links to the character creator to players of their face-to-face games. Again, I am thrilled that people are actually using this tool.
And speaking of, I do plan to make a Numenera 1st Edition Character Creator available also, for those people who want to play Glints or Seekers, or who otherwise want a first-edition experience. I am hoping to have it ready in April some time.
You may have noticed that I finally got another installment of Tears up there. You may have also noticed that I changed Thecla's name to Tlecha. About that... As you may know, this story is based on a play-by-forum campaign of Numenera. Thecla, of course, was a player character in that game. I took the liberty of changing the name because it was bothering me that the name came from an important character in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series, which is said to be one of the primary inspirations for the Numenera setting itself. The line between an homage and simple copying is not always clear, but I prefer to err on the side of being original. The altered spelling of the name keeps the homage, I feel, but is "original enough", at least for me. Since I'm now the only person writing this story, I feel like I have leeway to make such changes. The new spelling also meshes better with the implied phonological rules I created for the Eighth World's language.
And speaking of Tlecha (or Thecla if you prefer), it's clear that I will need to go back and revise a previous chapter to flesh out Tlecha meeting the group, and explain why she chose to travel with the Broken Cage Company. This meeting up was not played out in-game; the GM just had us jump forward a few months with additional players now in the group to replace people who had dropped out with little more than a vague handwave as to why we were all together. But, for the story, it's becoming clear that Tlecha needs more of a formal introduction than what she has hitherto received. Think of it as making up for changing her name.
I don't know if I will have chapter 12 ready in April, but I have high hopes that, at the very least, the revised chapter 9 (I think it's chapter 9), introducing Tlecha, will be done shortly, like in a week or two.
I didn't get to the R-Z Two-Make-Three guide this month like I had planned. Allergies have been hitting me really hard in the last couple of weeks, which has sapped my will to write. But I hope to have it up this month.
I think the schedule of four posts a month is doable. I enjoy writing, but I don't want to burn myself out cranking out more than what seems fun to me, and four posts a month seems to be working out for the time being.
That's all for now; see y'all next time, and thanks for the support!
(I actually don't care much for April Fools' Day, myself. Most of the jokes and pranks people come up with for AFD fall a little flat for me. Hey! Here's a webpage that says the exact opposite of what our site says on the other 364 days of the year! Isn't that comedy gold!? Meh.)
On to the updates and whatnot...
March was another huge month for the blog with-- are you ready?-- 811 views. That's such a big number relative to what this blog has gotten in the past, I feel obligated to say that that is in fact real, and not an April Fools' joke. (February, if you'll recall, was the first month the blog broke 600 views, with 603. March blew that short-lived record away by more than a third. Woot woot!). As usual, the lion's share of this traffic was to the Numenera 2 Character Creator. Awareness of that page seems to be spreading among the broader Numenera community, which I think is fantastic. Lately I have been seeing a few referrals to that page from Facebook and Meetup, which, if I had to guess, is GMs sending links to the character creator to players of their face-to-face games. Again, I am thrilled that people are actually using this tool.
And speaking of, I do plan to make a Numenera 1st Edition Character Creator available also, for those people who want to play Glints or Seekers, or who otherwise want a first-edition experience. I am hoping to have it ready in April some time.
Tears of the Gods
You may have noticed that I finally got another installment of Tears up there. You may have also noticed that I changed Thecla's name to Tlecha. About that... As you may know, this story is based on a play-by-forum campaign of Numenera. Thecla, of course, was a player character in that game. I took the liberty of changing the name because it was bothering me that the name came from an important character in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series, which is said to be one of the primary inspirations for the Numenera setting itself. The line between an homage and simple copying is not always clear, but I prefer to err on the side of being original. The altered spelling of the name keeps the homage, I feel, but is "original enough", at least for me. Since I'm now the only person writing this story, I feel like I have leeway to make such changes. The new spelling also meshes better with the implied phonological rules I created for the Eighth World's language.
And speaking of Tlecha (or Thecla if you prefer), it's clear that I will need to go back and revise a previous chapter to flesh out Tlecha meeting the group, and explain why she chose to travel with the Broken Cage Company. This meeting up was not played out in-game; the GM just had us jump forward a few months with additional players now in the group to replace people who had dropped out with little more than a vague handwave as to why we were all together. But, for the story, it's becoming clear that Tlecha needs more of a formal introduction than what she has hitherto received. Think of it as making up for changing her name.
I don't know if I will have chapter 12 ready in April, but I have high hopes that, at the very least, the revised chapter 9 (I think it's chapter 9), introducing Tlecha, will be done shortly, like in a week or two.
Scrabble Guides
I didn't get to the R-Z Two-Make-Three guide this month like I had planned. Allergies have been hitting me really hard in the last couple of weeks, which has sapped my will to write. But I hope to have it up this month.
Miscellany
I think the schedule of four posts a month is doable. I enjoy writing, but I don't want to burn myself out cranking out more than what seems fun to me, and four posts a month seems to be working out for the time being.
That's all for now; see y'all next time, and thanks for the support!
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