To date I’ve made the following changes to the blog:
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I’ve upgraded hugo from 0.90 to 0.105, and fixed any breakages. The main changes I noticed in these pages were a different code highlighter and more aggressive use of fancy closing single quotes. A couple of pages needed fixing.
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I’ve added a “Writing” section, which for now contains most of the fiction I’d posted to previous iterations of the site.
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I’ve tweaked the CSS and templates a little, mainly because the aforementioned fiction and some other articles use
<HR>elements internally as scene and chapter breaks while the site chrome uses them to set itself off from article content.
With these changes I’ve added MOST of the pages from the previous iteration of the site back to this one. These are the exceptions:
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A 2005 NaNoWriMo novel called The Dreaming Princess, which was over 50k words and, according to one person who read it, not very good.
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An exported wiki about a setting called “Erebus”. It never got off the ground, and the only interesting bits from that mess ended up in the “Languages in RPGs” articles about the “Understand Languages” mechanic and written languages.
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Some pages about a setting called “Dead End”, based on PDQ, in which the PCs are dead people returned to life. The most notable parts were that undead took hit point damage to hit locations while living beings used a primitive sort of wound mechanic, and that I made melee combat an opposed dice roll while ranged combat was an unopposed dice roll. Those ideas have and perhaps will continue to crop up in my various half-baked RPGs like Paranormality and Shadow Vale.
This all means that the “Old Site” pages are finally going away.