Bloggies Debrief and Thanks

Another year and the Bloggies have come and gone! I'm very pleased to have taken home some medals in the Best Series category!

Gold: The Designing Dungeons Course, or, How to Kill a Party in 30 Rooms or Less

Silver: The Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project

My colleague and co-author of Designing Dungeons, Warren of ICastLight, has a nice post on the Bloggies that says more than I will. 

> Blogs are like cheese- the one that smells like feet is better than the unoffensive Kraft single. Be the feet cheese.

Let me add a "ditto" to his sentiments.

Let me also thank a few folks! 

First, thank you to this year's host Clayton of Explorer's Design who did a great job. Every one who has inherited the burden of victory in years past has done a great job, and Clayton continued this excellent tradition of stewardship. 

BIG thanks to the community of volunteers who recorded the Bloggie nominees in audio format through We Read the Bloggies! Thank you to everyone who my blog posts--what a big lift! Thanks especially to Jon from 3d6DowntheLine for recording the audio versions of the entire Designing Dungeons Course. (Did you hear that? There's audio versions now -- linked on the course itself!) Thanks also to Nick L.S. Whelan who has been pioneering the blogcast podcast for years with Blogs On Tape.

I want to thank and congratulate Nova of Idle Cartulary, who also won a Bloggie for Best Series. She is an absolute pillar of the community. Her criticism is so important, so valuable, and so appreciated.

And, obviously, thanks everyone who voted for me! Some of these votes were razor thin, so every vote counted! 

Congrats to Elmcat who brought home the Big Bloggie Gold (as its called)! I look forward to them hosting next year!