Bandwagon: The Bloggies and the Rule of Five

Hope the New Year is treating you all well thus far. 

Anyway, a time-sensative (hah) post addressing other blogs.

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Prismatic Wasteland has proclaimed the Bloggies - 'Awards for some of the best OSR/Post-OSR blog posts to come out in 2022. There will be five awards: Best Theory Blogpost, Best Gameable Blogpost, Best Advice Blogpost, Best Review Blogpost, and, the biggest one, Best Blogpost.' Voting is, I understand, on Twitter. 

[I am not now on Twitter and have not been in the past, under this nom-de-plume or any others. The current moment would be an unlikely one to join.]

Now, this may be of interest to you as a reader of this blog. It crossed my path when I found out I was on the list for my review of Demon Bone Sarcophagus. I suspect that this made the list because it was a fairly prompt, timely review that made it onto The Glatistant. I'm not certain this was my best piece for this blog*, and it's certainly not better than some of the competition, which includes False Machine and Against the Wicked City. Anyway, here's hoping this persists. I quite like these whole blog arrangement.

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Thought I'd try applying the Rule of Five discussed here to The Rest of All Possible Worlds. I suspect that this is better suited to smaller regions than Calliste, but let's give it a try anyway.

Five Quincentenaries Ago: [.....millennia seems like too much.]

• Procophon has the Majestic Vision.
• The City of Horato begins to flourish.
• Some of the first known grimoires are received into the Library of the Supreme Satrap.

Five Centuries Ago:

• The Kingdom of Pavaisse takes on something like its present boundaries (plus the Prizelands, but minus Joachimsland).
• The School of Malicarn institutes the role of the Overseer.
• Lhulache of Laldiel pens her Great Rule and Compromise, which becomes the popularly accepted model for colleges of magic thereafter.
• Lictors in Datresse storm the Guildhall and throw fifty alderman into the river.

Five Generations Ago: [Generation = 30 years. Seems a better unit of time than Score for this]

• The Printing Press becomes viable and widespread in Calliste.
• Serious competitors emerge to the School of Malicarn, with their own interpretations of the Majestic Vision.
• Sailors reach what will one day be the Buccaneers' Archipelago and (more importantly) decide to return next year.

Five Decades Ago:

• Emperor Boniface II marries Beatrice von Dottore.
• The first Anti-Grimorean pamphlets are published.
• The Armies of the Sublime Prince retreat from the Arpadhian plain.

Five Weeks Ago: (but you might only be learning of these now)

• The Governor of Transmontane Tsymric is recalled on charges of corruption.
• A second permanent Malmeric factory is granted land by a Prince of the Alamgir Empire.
• The first Manual of Nematism is issued by the Grand Academy of Caspianstadt.
• Tabulators set up the 'Society of Elevated Grocers' in Datresse.

Go forth into Calliste, and perhaps beyond!

Speaking of The Rest of All Possible Worlds, I have elected to update the Mechanics and Gazette post with details of the various magical debates.

*Not that I have any definite idea what actually is, of course. Suggestions in the comments, I guess.