After I posted yesterday’s Blogless Lepolt entry, I decided to finish the page of materials by Eric Ashley–not that I used many of his links, but that I got him linked. I posted the new pages, so if you visit the Multiverser support site you will find the links to the unofficial and fan support materials (mine is “unofficial” and his is “fan”, which is a distinction I could clarify were it necessary). It really did not take much time to finish up his part, once I opened the thread and started following the links; however, uploading the two new and one revised pages adds a great deal of support material to the web site, because of all that is linked.

There is much that I did not link. I was looking for materials that were either ready for play (with mechanics included) or were solid general contributions. I found his placeholder worlds book (which I have not read, mea culpa) and his address on quick world creation (which I read long ago and am now re-reading in my spare moments), but otherwise dropped general links to his games, blogs, and articles. As with my own page, I do not consider this brief collection either exhaustive or finished, but the beginning of a list of the more useful contributions of which our referees ought to be aware.

I also need to talk to some of our people in-house about providing more materials.

–M. J. Young

I was a bit surprised to have a bit of extra time last night, so I tackled the new project I mentioned yesterday, creating links pages for unofficial Multiverser support. I’ve only actually done my own, and it is a paltry beginning which includes links to the Martial Arts site in its new location, Intuition and Surprise, I’m Not a Lawyer, but I Play One in a Game, the three-part Law and Enforcement in Imaginary Realms series, and the three-part Theory 101 series. There are also links to Gaming Outpost (for the Game Ideas Unlimited series), and to the Chaplain’s Corner of the Christian Gamers Guild (for the Faith and Gaming series), but part of me says I really need to go through all those articles, re-index them, and select the cream of the crop for Multiverser support. It’s a lot of work, but I’ll figure it out eventually.

In that connection, I also already put a link on the file copy of the main support page to an as yet non-existent (O.K., existent but not having correct content) page of links to Eric “Tadeusz” “World-a-Week” Ashley’s support materials, which I consider a valuable contribution to the Multiverser corpus. I need to scrape together enough time to tackle those links, which probably will not happen today (it might, though), so I can upload the entire package.

I got an early start today thanks to the cat. I think she was looking for a new hiding place for her kittens and decided to look behind my night table. I was disturbed by the sound of her rooting around back there, and looked at the clock–which was blank, because it had no power. That can be any of several problems, of course, so potential panic arose within me, and I jumped out of bed to determine the nature of the problem. It turned out to be the least problematic problem–the cat had unplugged everything from the outlet–but by the time I’d visited the bathroom and returned, I figured I was awake. Since Tuesday has my heaviest online workload, I figured I might as well stay awake and get started.

So, I’m started.

–M. J. Young

The big deal, if there is a big deal today, is that last night I completed the recoding of the Martial Arts in Role Playing Games site, and managed to post it on my web site, available to all. I expect to add a new category to the Multiverser support site (which is here), which will include this and a few other links to useful but unofficial materials. I’m still considering what ought to be included in that.

I also did a bit of editing on my Romans notes, but the fact that I had to take my mother-in-law shopping put a pinch on my time today. Here’s hoping I can get through the rest in a timely manner, and get some sleep tonight.

–M. J. Young