2026-04-12 Commenting on blogs
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> My April challenge is to visit and comment on every blog in my
> following. -- New April Blog Challenge, not what you think, by Tim
> Brannan (@timsbrannan@dice.camp)

Oof, this is difficult. I don't check out the RPG Planet as often as
I used to, I guess. And my blog doesn't have comments any more. You
can send an email but many people don't do it. I think it would be
cool to connect to other RPG bloggers but my locked down browser has
made it really difficult to post on Blogspot and Wordpress blogs, and
then I am subscribed by email and that means the promise of spam in a
few years, and … I don't know. Almost nobody has a contact email on
their blog. I usually feel it's easier for me to comment on something
on fedi or on IRC. A bit sad, actually.

Anyway, I scrolled through the blog posts on the RPG Planet and
clicked through to Dungeon Stocking with Markov Processes at To Be
Resolved. What a cool idea: The stocking table depends on the state
of the room you're currently in. The link to the Hex Flower
implementation makes sense. In both cases, there's that inherent
state.

As for myself, I'm not sure I want to take the time for a more complex
table. I already hate rolling two dice instead of one! And in addition
to that, my experience with restocking Stonehell has been that doing
this with dedication ends up limiting my players to the first level of
the dungeon. Every single expedition they would run into something new
and then it's time over since we played less than two hours per
session. In my current Arden Vul campaign, there's practically no
restocking. That also doesn't feel right but I don't want to spend so
much time on making the known dungeon trickier when there's still so
much stuff to explore.

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