Testing a few things on my social media manager, but I figure this is also a good time to show off the latest art I had commissioned from OdinDoesArt. I am quite pleased with it, to be honest.
Now to see how far and wide this one went!
Testing a few things on my social media manager, but I figure this is also a good time to show off the latest art I had commissioned from OdinDoesArt. I am quite pleased with it, to be honest.
Now to see how far and wide this one went!
While this week is not my "blog birthday" it is the anniversary of my first website called The Other Side, of which this blog is the continuation. In celebration, I thought I would get myself something fun for it.
So here is Laura Guldemond, lead singer of The Burning Witches to welcome you to my site!
I have to say Laura was an absolute sweetheart to work with! I knew I wanted to get a Cameo of someone to mark the occasion this year and she popped up in my searches and I knew she was the one.
I rather enjoy The Burning Witches and have featured them here before on a Friday Night Videos segment.
So with that. Welcome again "where all witches love the Other Side!"
Links for Laura Guldemond
At some point earlier this morning I hit a new milestone; 6 Million hits.
Still, it is a nice milestone to hit.
Lots of talk about lists. Red ones, Green ones, Yellow. Talk about Neutral zones or somesuch.
While it should be obvious I'll restate it for those in the back.
Adjust your buying preferences accordingly.
Quick one today. Lots going on at the day job to keep me busy!
I had not noticed it, but with the moving around of my various cloud accounts, I had killed my Downloads Page.
Well I spent some time on it yesterday and now I have it working with Google Drive. And because I am never satisfied with just a link, there are Grid View and List View windows to see all the files.
I figure since I spent so much time on the code for this I should add a few things.
So I included the PDF previews of all my witch books on DriveThruRPG. There are few files that Eden studios have given me permission to host/share and I figured, what the hell, there are a few of my AD&D 2nd Ed "Netbooks" there. You can find my original "Complete Netbook of Witches & Warlocks" as well as the AD&D 2nd Ed Priest Kit, the Sun Priest here.
The Sun Priest shares DNA with the witch as one of the classes I created back in my earliest days of gaming. The Healer and Necromance complete the quad. One day I really should finish up that healer class.
I also included the free "Basic" and "S&W" witch character sheets here and a copy of the AD&D Tournament scorecard I have used in the past.
I will be adding to this as I can. If there are enough files then I'll start a nested folder structure, but right now there are only 30 odd files here.
One thing I *will* add are the Google Sheets of the witch spells I have made. This help people figure out which witch book they want to buy and if anyone needs an OGC spell they now know where to look.
Let me know if there is anything you would like to see added to this.
"A fine website, but even more than that...THANKS FOR THE GREAT PARODY OF THE DARK DUNGEONS TRASH! Best wishes."
Gary Gygax circa 1999
Back in 1994, I moved to Chicago to work on my Ph.D. and be closer to my then-girlfriend (spoiler, I married her in 1995). I was working at the College of Education at the time as their tech-monkey. I told them I knew how to write code. I did/do, but it was all Pascal, Fortran, and some C and VisualBasic. What they wanted was HTML though they really didn't know it at the time. I built their student databases and worked on their nascent website.
My very first website, made in 1995, was The Chicago Campus Crusade for Cthulhu. I had all my Call of Cthulhu materials online and it was a parody site. This was quickly followed by my Gateway2000 PC site (yes I was a huge fan of Gateway computers). I had built them both in Notepad, a tool I still use today to edit all my HTML.
The earliest captures were 1998, but by then I had been on for 2-3 years. I was using the "noarchive" tag and "Frame breaker" scripts a lot back then because there was a real concern for webpage theft and spaghetti publishers. I thought that would help. What they do was keep my site from being archived by bots.
This kept me from finding the very first versions of my sites, though I still have all the HTML code backed up. I did notice that when I went back for my second Ph.D. my student account was reactivated and there are some captures from around then as well.
In any case, the knowledge I gained from those sites was poured into my newest site, The Other Side.
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So dark. Very Internet. Much frames. |
I named it after an old newspaper column I wrote for my school newspaper in High School and then my first year of undergrad. Plus it sounded mystical and new agey.
I am not 100% sure of the exact day it went live. I know it was between March 10th and the 12th because that was my wife's birthday. Also, I was in a Cognition of Memory course at the time when I jotted down my first ideas for it in my notebook. So that was Spring term 96.
The site changed over the years. I added more and more material and soon it was the home of my first Netbook of Witches and Warlocks, published in 1999. I had moved from my campus site to RPGHost for the longest time. From there I was also on Xoom, NBCi, Tripod, and then PlanetADnD.
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Whoa, easy there Darklord. |
Around 2003 or so I kept getting hacked and my sie taken down. My host asked me to take it down for a bit because of all the DoS attacks he was getting. So for a while, all that remained were some mirrors of the site that I rarely updated.
The site was revived in 2007 on this blog.
I still use the same background, though in a much-lightened fashion. Some of the material written for that old site has also come back here.
Sadly many of my then contemporaries are gone. PlanetADnD is no more. BlueTroll has been gone a long time. All the old hosting services are long gone. I see that ADnDDownloads is still up after a fashion. Mimir, the Planescape site, is still going and looks the same as it did back in the 1990s, though I don't think it has been updated in 10 years and many links are broken.
While I miss some of the "wild west" days of finding the perfect, or the perfectly odd, netbook, things are better now. DriveThruRPG gives me legal means to complete my collection and DMGsguild covers my need for fan-created material. And that is just the tip of the iceberg as it were.
Do I have it in me to go another 25? Well...I'll be in my mid to late 70s then, so no idea. But I am going to keep having fun with this as long as I can.
Thanks for being with me this long!
Another Halloween is now part of the history books. I am sad to see it go, but now it is time to sit back and see what I did here.
October saw a whopping 92 new posts here at The Other Side! That beat my previous record of 72 in October of 2013.
In that time I watched 60 horror movies, with 41 one of them being first-time views.
You can see all my movies from the October Horror Movie marathon on my Pinterest board.
Follow Timothy's board October Horror Movie Challenge on Pinterest.This translated into 74,587 hits for the month.
The Pumpkin Spice Witch was offered for free as part of DriveThruRPG's Halloween Sales.
You can find it by going to your Wishlist (you need to be logged in),
I have gotten a lot of nice accolades and nice words about my books over the years. But Aubrey Spivey 's cosplay of my Pumpkin Spice Witch cover has REALLY made my Halloween 🎃! Thank you!
Posted by Timothy S. Brannan on Saturday, October 31, 2020
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NGC 6193, roughly 4,000 ly from Earth |