Ultrablamtacular!

Well, it’s been a while since there’s been just a regular status report. So that means there’s a lot to report!

First of all, my blog has been discovered by spam. Seriously, I used to get a few spams a day. For a while, I got no spam at all, which I thought meant the spammers were bored or frustrated and had just identified my site as one of the protected ones. Today, it felt like I got spammed at an unprecedented rate. I checked my spam stats, and sure enough, it was off the charts (for this site) – at over twice the previous high, and the day not over yet! I pretty much expect to get spammed while typing this update!

As far as the game goes, I’ve written a lot of the introductory material that proofreaders know was missing – explanations of game terms, of what RPGs are, etc..

I’ve also gotten at least a significant chunk of the rewrite on Villain combat done, which was a a pretty big deal. I think it’s retained the simplicity I saw when writing the summary. Also, I got a lengthy example of Minion combat rewritten to reflect very recent rule simplifications.  Additionally, I performed another wordectomy, removing a copy of the summary combat rules that I had for easy reference during the rewrite.

Additionally, I started work on the Ultrablamtacular! community website – it’s playtesters-only, for right now, but it’s started. 

My non-metric word count has reached a milestone of sorts – It’s the first time I’ve counted and been over the 20,000 word mark. I guess since it’s a non-metric, that makes this a non-milestone, too. Current word count: 20,090.