My 2024 Bloggies Nominations

The 2024 Bloggie awards are here, and DIY & dragons is a finalist in two categories! 

 

official BLOGGIES 2024 art ‘Blugtarp Blogeye and Weyman the Well-Read’ by Hodag

 

Warren from Prismatic Wasteland created the Bloggies in 2022 to celebrate the year's best blog posts, as nominated and voted on by the public. There are awards in four categories - theory, gameable content, advice, and reviews; plus an overall best blog post winner. Zedeck Siew from Slow Loris won the grand prize that first year, and he started the tradition that the grand prize winner hosts the next year's award.

 

SachaGoat won last year, and is serving as this year's host. Each year there's an open nomination period, and then the host picks 16 finalists in each category, arranged into brackets for voting.

I was nominated, and selected as a finalist in two categories: gameable content, and reviews.

 

 

Gameable Content

Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam vs Dungeon Gods

 

Voting for the best Gameable Content post starts on Friday, January 10th. My post, Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam, is competing with Dungeon Gods, by Alice from Dungeon Doll.

 

The actual gameable content in mine isn't in the post itself, but in the comment section, where the Lego Jam participants linked their adventures and ideas. Alice gives us an idea for player characters to make offerings at shrines in the underworld, and a few examples of what that might look like.

Please vote for whichever one you think is best!

 

 

Review

Xandering is Slandering vs Deep Dive: Stonetop

Voting for best Review starts on Friday, January 24th. My post, Xandering is Slandering, is competing with Deep Dive: Stonetop, by Paul Beakly from The Indie Game Reading Club. 

 

I have really mixed feelings about my post, but I agree that it was an important post last year, and if anyone else had written it, I would have been one of the people who submitted it as a nominee. If you read it, you should probably also look at Justin Alexander's response. Paul's post is an extensive review of the available drafts of Stonetop, and he includes a thoughtful discussion of the genealogy of the PBTA games that have followed after Apocalypse World.

 

Again, I encourage you to vote for the review you think adds the most to the conversation.

 

 

Whatever happens with the awards, I want to congratulate the other finalists, thank whoever nominated my posts, and applaud SachaGoat for hosting this year's awards!