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I’m Back, Maybe

Posted by Gary N. Mengle on

Consider this step 1 in the (attempted) relaunch of the Ardwulf’s Lair blog. We’ll see how I do.

Those who have been around forever will recall that the whole Ardwulf’s Lair thing started with a blog, mostly about MMORPGs. However, in recent years I have not played MMORPGs very much, aside from intense but brief stints in EVE Online and The Elder Scrolls Online. What I have mostly been doing for gaming has been analog gaming, of the historical board wargame variety, with the occasional foray into tabletop RPGs.

Old-timers may also recall that in the ancient days I was also pretty prolific, averaging a blog post a day for several years. These days I am still kind of prolific, just over on my YouTube channel, where I find to my shock and discombobulation that I’ve become one of the larger voices in our tiny fishbowl of a space.

So part of the motivation is to just get back into a rhythm of regular writing. You will not see a post a day… but maybe you’ll see a post every couple of weeks, which is a couple orders of magnitude more than I’ve posted on this blog for the past several years. The content will be related to my primary hobby, which as I mentioned is historical board wargames nowadays. So subscribe or unsubscribe, as you please, although I don’t imagine that very many are left over from the old days.

Reflection and Redirection

Posted by Gary N. Mengle on

Ardwulf’s Lair began as a blog on a long-defunct site called GAX, a precursor to GameBreaker that never quite took off. Before long (in October of 2007) I migrated here to WordPress, where I have remained since. That was a bit over six years ago. I had begun by blogging about my adventures in Vanguard, and though I soon veered off into many other titles, that’s the game I retain a special affection for to this day.

I have not been blogging much for the last couple of months. Mostly that’s a factor of time; between school, work and family I have had very, very little time to do any video gaming at all, so blogging about it was even lower in priority. But I have been engaged in some other pursuits, including some tabletop gaming and working on some things of my own invention. With Vanguard sunsetting and my own creative urges pulling me in a different direction, it’s probably time to contemplate a change of focus for this blog.

I won’t be going away or anything equally dramatic. In fact it’s likely you’ll see a fair amount of MMORPG content here over the next few months as Vanguard slowly moves toward its sunset. And there will always be video game stuff here. But you’ll also begin to see other kinds of content, in some cases pointers to or reposts from one of my other blogs. So: fair warning.