So as most of you know several years ago we ran AURA Gaming and that evolved into Aura Unveiled and that evolved into "Fuck this Shit" which finally evolved into "Aura: After Darkfall."
After Darkfall is a tabletop version of the old LARP detailing what happened after Matt Bailey's character, Ragnorok accidentally started...well Ragnorok. I worked on it for a while then it got to be REALLY unhealthy. I mean EXCEPTIONALLY unhealthy. I was completely reliving the old anger of running the LARP without the fun of beating the hell out of someone with a boffer sword. So yeah, I had to abandon it for a while and I started writing a lot of Ravenloft games and somewhere I got to thinking it was time to restart After Darkfall. I found an AMAZING sight called Scabard and I began to build everything there because it enabled me to be super-organized. If you want to have a look around it (assuming you haven't already) Check out: Aura: After Darkfall on Scabard. If you were an Aura player back in the old days and want to see yourself immortalized in After Darkfall as an NPC give me a shout; I'd love to complete the data.
If you want a HUGE wave of nostalgia check this out. Yes, that's right: Almost the entirety of the old website still exists. I killed the message board but the rest IS still there.
I'll also start migrating my game reviews here. I always preferred to do shit on my own and while I'll keep the Facebook Page and the Destructoid blog this will probably become the new home to the gaming reviews...because it is mine.
What do I want from here? Hopefully a little more interactivity than Facebook provides. You get lost in the crowd pretty damn easily on Facebook Destructoid is better but as I believe I mentioned: I own this. It is mine.
If I can get that old community feel I'll keep it around, otherwise come November the domain and this website will cease to exist. I'm going to give it the old "college" try but with a lot more try than I put into College.
I have a lot I want to learn how to do here, including using the website proper to host videos and other stuff. This could be a brave new world. It could be a huge fucking flop. But so far this feels right
See 'ya soon!