Comments on The Free RPG Blog: How to write a free RPG - Chapter 2: Research

Riiiiiight. What was I thinking when I wrote ab...

2011-12-27T08:25:34.678Z

Riiiiiight.

What was I thinking when I wrote about writing your own RPG?
http://stuffershack.com/writing-your-own-rpg-breaking-barriers/

I humbly apologize for speaking out of turn, and will thus read your blog intently.

God I love the internet! Thanks for the article, and the blog.

Hey Dr Lang, you've got a PM on 1km1kt to read...

2011-12-20T19:22:54.500Z

Hey Dr Lang, you've got a PM on 1km1kt to read!

@Emmett thank you! Glad I'm on track with the ...

2011-12-20T17:06:24.934Z

@Emmett thank you! Glad I'm on track with the free RPG community. Back when I did academic research, it was very important to know when the deadline was because there was always another paper to read, another journal to delve into, etc. You never get anything done!

I'm pretty much in sync with this post, althou...

2011-12-20T16:59:48.545Z

I'm pretty much in sync with this post, although I don't do a good job of setting a time limit for myself. Not setting a time limit can be really bad if you find something half way through writing that derails your direction so I agree that it's important. I'll have to set a limit in the future.

@Jensan Please email me with your browser/OS detai...

2011-12-20T15:01:05.416Z

@Jensan
Please email me with your browser/OS details and I'll look into it. I'm not doing anything clever, just plonked the picasa tool on there!

There are lots of ways of doing research. The act of grab should be raw and unfiltered because you don't necessarily know what you're going to find until you've finished. If you spend time filtering as you go, you might find something in a later grab session that invalidates everything you've filtered.

Best to get all the information you can together and then decide what's best given the entire scope.

Of course being a soft subject, there are lots of ways to get to the goal of a broad and useful body of research so please do modify to make it work for you!

Thanks for the comment, as always. :)

The Picasa Flashgizmo isn't working for me. G...

2011-12-20T14:20:41.367Z

The Picasa Flashgizmo isn't working for me.

Great and inspiring article (again), but I had a question about the Grab, Sort, Filter-method: if there's only three categories (Core, Inspiration, Off-topic), couldn't you do the sorting at the grabbing. I mean, if there were tons of categories, I could understand the need for sorting later, but with only three it seems more manageable?