A to Z 2025 Reflections

As always I enjoy the A to Z Challenge. 

My first was in 2011. I won “an award” that year from another blog recognizing fan content to the Warhammer community. I participated annually for almost a decade. Each year building more content on that theme. One year I partnered with Ben Scerri in a cross posting effort. My first international effort. Ben is now a contributing writer for Cubicle 7, the licensee of the Warhammer property and publisher of the current edition of Warhammer FRP. 

The A to Z Challenge “forces me” to blog. 😉

I’m a creative and I believe blogging and gaming contributes to my career in unique ways. It contributes to solving and evaluating problems in Software Architecture. Gaming contributes to my social skills and management of people. Try wrangling four to five players at a table and, as referee, watch a story arc meet the player’s goals for their characters. Challenges all around.

After a two or three year break I’m glad to be back blogging and I’m grateful of how the A to Z Challenge inspires me. 

Next year? Yes. Until then watch this space.

To the many commentors, friends and blog hoppers alike, thank you!


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  1. LisaMay 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM

    It's funny, I didn't know a thing (or barely a thing) about table top games, and now one of my adult children has found there's a new store in town where you can paint Warhammer figurines! I guess the one that's in space? I still don't know much about them, but I can see now people get into them, and the figures are fascinating. Another adult child of mine bought a bunch at a garage sale, knowing he's make money selling them! I forgot about that until your theme! Hope to see you next year.

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    1. Timothy StoneMay 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM

      Lisa. Yes Warhammer 40K, or WH40K for short. Huge fiction line. Huge wargaming community. WH40K has a role playing rules set to. Painted “armies” do sell, so not a bad investment. The “Old World” has largely been “lost” to changes in the fiction. Much to my dislike as a fan for decades. It lives in much of the fandom and old rule sets. It once enjoyed a wargaming side as well, but didn’t have the same appeal as supermen in space suits with guns. 😉

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  2. Ronel Janse van VuurenMay 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM

    Sounds like you get a lot out of the challenge!

    Ronel visiting for Reflections for A to Z Blogging Challenge 2025

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