New Year, new project!
I am overjoyed by the number of people who have gotten good use out of the Mythic Index, but it is just that, an index.
I have tried to make it as useful as I can, and I feel I did pretty good job. With that said, it occurred to me sometime over the holiday break that that though if you look at the all the magazine covers you have something of a rough table of contents of what is inside of each magazine, but, as much as I love the covers, the art, and the tantalizing titles, its job is to be a pallet wetting hook, not an academic table of contents, and now that we are up to 61 issues, over five years of material, maybe such annotated ToC would help people understand what to expect from each issue, and track down the issues they want. This isn't to replace the Index (Though it is getting restructured. More about that below), but to complement it.
Lets say you decide you need an article on world building, so you look up said topic in the Index. At this point there are a plethora of such articles. Which one would be right for your gaming needs? Do you have time to read 2, 3, 5 articles. I don't. So, I believe it would be useful if an article name with a very condensed explanation of the article was hyperlinked to the index, so you could read through the options available and pick out the right one for your circumstance.
Like the Compilations, each page of the ToC will come out in 6 issue chunks. I am also going to be running in reverse order, starting with 56-60(1) and climbing down the ladder to 1-6, because those are the issues with the freshest articles that show where Mythic and other World Mill products are going.
The content of the annotation will cover the theme of the article, the presence of useful charts, worksheets, and tables, and a reference (and eventual link) to related materials. (Wizard Dad says go big or go home... which awkward since I work from home). This is a tall order I know, but (1), as I am not getting paid, I am not on a strict time table, and (2) I love herding words. (I think I maybe part corgi.)
As per usual, I am designing this more or less for my personal use, so how I describe the article may not be how you would describe the article. If you think I am really fouling the swing please let me know politely in the notes, and I will take your suggestions into consideration, and if I feel it is warranted I will modify the descriptive text accordingly.
In other news, I feel the organization of the original Index has gotten a bit antiquated, so, while I am leaving it up as is, and will continue updating it, I am also going to start building Index 2.0. I am mostly going to work on that off the blog, and import it when it is done. At that point I will probably stop updating Index 1, but if there are enough people who are really loving the original categorizations, I will just run the two simultaneously.
As I mentioned in my blog update, I am pretty busy with life stuff, so these will be slow burn projects, but that is how the Index started as well.
Thank you for your time.
W.D.
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