Things to Come

Hey there!
Well, assuming that anyone is still interested in reading this after that painfully long History post I'd like to talk a bit about what is to come. When Joey and I first talked about putting up the blog, we knew vaguely what it was we would be writing about and doing here. I fear that because of our intuitive understanding of each other's intentions we sort of forgot to mention in the introduction what they were, leaving any potential readers with only the knowledge that this would have something to do with games and Ohio. So I'd like to outline a few of the basic kinds of articles and recurring features you can look forward to from us here at Devia.
One feature that I know will be featured prominently is Weekly Battle Reports. Once the playgroup is up and running with regular minis games, I will take detailed photos of at least one featured battle each week, and write an article about the tactics, events, and outcomes of that game. I'd even like to try doing a brief fast paced recreation video of the fight each week, and uploading it to a Devia Venatus Youtube Channel. Hope that sounds like fun to you too! :-D
We will also most definitely feature regular articles on a wide variety of topics. Some articles I can be pretty sure will be written sooner or later are:
1. What makes a game balanced.
2. Skill vs Chance
3. Why Mark Rosewater hates competitive Magic, and what it means for the game.
4. Reviews of different rules systems as we learn them. As well as expansions for games as they become available.
5. Special Event overviews. (Origins, Gen Con, Tournaments...ect)
6. Inevitable Game Theory Arguments.
7. Satire...count on it.
8. Community Involvement Projects. Because I don't just want readers, I want people willing to interact and join in the fun of creation and discussion.
9. Discussion of House Rules, and our group's preferences in game functions.
10. The story of that one time Joey and I nearly broke the fuck out of a Magic format and gained national coverage.
11. Low APR. Cheap Penis Growth. Meet for Sex NOW. Cheap RXRXRX!!!
12. Much, much more if you order in the next 10 minutes.

We'll also feature random blog posts of course about the things that happen within the playgroup as it develops. This could mean you all get to laugh at me while I post my miserable progress at learning to paint my figures, or laughing at us all when we post "we've been playing the CC rules of this game wrong for 3 weeks!".

I'd also like to add that along with my friend Aaron I will definitely be doing a lot of "prettying up" of this blog. Blogger is a great tool, and I love Google to death for making little projects like this possible for $0. However it looks very, very generic and ugly to have things like the bland layouts and intrusive search bar on this page. I promise in a couple weeks this page will look much nicer. Looking at the monstrous History posts my first priority if definitely to add "expand/collapse post" toggles. :-/

As we here at Devia think of other things, they will be added. We will also be very open to your suggestions. What the readers want to hear about is very interesting to me, so we'll be on the lookout for requests or reactions to features. I hope this all sounds like things you'd like to come along for, and I thank you for reading. :-)