Post by Joe the Revelator on Apr 11, 2015 10:55:02 GMT
Our goal for Statbonus is to provide interesting, motivating, and engaging content about tabletop gaming, with a few side articles about fun facts or historical oddities. With twice-weekly updates our plan is to post 50% or more content about tabletop stories and advice. The other 50% will be humorous anecdotes.
Tabletop articles we're interested in:
*How-To Guides concerning story/campaign writing.
*Advice columns for dealing with difficult players/situations/groups.
*Research illuminating little-known facts about the genre to improve immersion. Example: What Vikings really ate. How bartering actually works. Etc.
*Tabletop history. Example: anti-D&D pamphlets that were distributed by religious groups. Or a detailed look the evolution of Shadowrun.
*Miniature DIY, like painting walkthroughs or scratch-building guides.
Tabletop articles we're not interested in:
*Personal stories that aren't expressly written for humorous impact. Your level 18 paladin may have been damned amazing, but not all readers will be interested in his adventures and foibles.
*Updates about your gaming group's adventures. Unless there's a lesson for the rest of us, or a moral to the story, most adventure tales will be ignored by the general public. If you want evidence of this scroll through the wordpress tag for Dungeons and Dragons, and look for adventure updates. Hardly any of them have replies/reads.
*People you can't stand. Unless it's a generalization we can all get behind, leave it at the table. Nobody wants to hear about how that asshat Bill keeps playing broken-ass characters and won't share loot with the party.
A general rule is to consider the WIIFM from the reader's perspective. (What's in it for me)
There are hundreds of bloggers online talking about Their group and Their adventures. We're here to entertain the reader, and to talk about how to improve the quality of their game in a way that directly effects them.
Other articles we want:
*Fun facts about history the reader probably isn't aware of.
*Info-graph Photoshops about movies and video games, pointing out inaccuracies, inconsitenceies, or hidden metephors.
*Photoshops of store miniatures/gaming pieces with funny captions.
*Any tabletop-related picture with a funny caption.
*Articles about video games that go beyond surface plot or symbolism.
*Original Youtube videos about glitches, fun gaming facts, and insane details.
Other articles we don't want:
*Personal arguments about history, accurate or otherwise. Even if you have conclusive evidence the world is only 5,000 years old, we won't consider it a valid article.
*Unoriginal click-bait photos taken from list-based sites.
*Video game how-to guides or walkthroughs.
*Let's Play Youtube videos.
*Anything taken from another publication. The only exception is that we allow your original blog entries to be re-blogged through Statbonus.com.
Almost any subject can be turned into a great article. But it may take some re-writing, or writing it from another perspective.
Tabletop articles we're interested in:
*How-To Guides concerning story/campaign writing.
*Advice columns for dealing with difficult players/situations/groups.
*Research illuminating little-known facts about the genre to improve immersion. Example: What Vikings really ate. How bartering actually works. Etc.
*Tabletop history. Example: anti-D&D pamphlets that were distributed by religious groups. Or a detailed look the evolution of Shadowrun.
*Miniature DIY, like painting walkthroughs or scratch-building guides.
Tabletop articles we're not interested in:
*Personal stories that aren't expressly written for humorous impact. Your level 18 paladin may have been damned amazing, but not all readers will be interested in his adventures and foibles.
*Updates about your gaming group's adventures. Unless there's a lesson for the rest of us, or a moral to the story, most adventure tales will be ignored by the general public. If you want evidence of this scroll through the wordpress tag for Dungeons and Dragons, and look for adventure updates. Hardly any of them have replies/reads.
*People you can't stand. Unless it's a generalization we can all get behind, leave it at the table. Nobody wants to hear about how that asshat Bill keeps playing broken-ass characters and won't share loot with the party.
A general rule is to consider the WIIFM from the reader's perspective. (What's in it for me)
There are hundreds of bloggers online talking about Their group and Their adventures. We're here to entertain the reader, and to talk about how to improve the quality of their game in a way that directly effects them.
Other articles we want:
*Fun facts about history the reader probably isn't aware of.
*Info-graph Photoshops about movies and video games, pointing out inaccuracies, inconsitenceies, or hidden metephors.
*Photoshops of store miniatures/gaming pieces with funny captions.
*Any tabletop-related picture with a funny caption.
*Articles about video games that go beyond surface plot or symbolism.
*Original Youtube videos about glitches, fun gaming facts, and insane details.
Other articles we don't want:
*Personal arguments about history, accurate or otherwise. Even if you have conclusive evidence the world is only 5,000 years old, we won't consider it a valid article.
*Unoriginal click-bait photos taken from list-based sites.
*Video game how-to guides or walkthroughs.
*Let's Play Youtube videos.
*Anything taken from another publication. The only exception is that we allow your original blog entries to be re-blogged through Statbonus.com.
Almost any subject can be turned into a great article. But it may take some re-writing, or writing it from another perspective.