Tears in the Rain

I wrote a post 15 years ago about Praxis. In this particular instance, Praxis was a sub-forun of the Story-Games community, which was quite vibrant at the time. I was only alerted to the post because I've had a high number of visitors to the blog this month and was curious about what pages those folks had been looking at. 

So I looked at the post, then tried to follow the links in it... Praxis is gone, Story-Games is gone, and considering I was saying at the time that many of the old ideas were being repeated, it's sad that that these moments have also been lost in time.  


It's great to see 1km1kt still around with it's archive of free games... rpg.net still exists too. It's interesting, and probably not surprising that the stable workhorses of the hobby have staying power, while the avant-garde who constantly debated and gatekept the community from newcomers faded into obscurity. 

(Yeah, a bit of hyperbole, and a bit of sour grapes...it's just one perspective. I can't complain too much since the Vulpinoid Studios website has similarly lapsed over the years.)

For the moment, I'm just going to keep designing, working on my own ideas, and try to keep on contact with various other designers on social media, or platforms like Itch.

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