Gamehole.com

I'm thinking about making some changes around here. I created this blog back in February of 2006, and at that point I envisioned a blog where I could talk about all the different games I enjoyed - video games, card games, pen-and-paper roleplaying and miniatures gaming. Over the last three years I've posted on all of these topics, but in the last six months, I've really started to focus more on talking about Warmachine. Since then, the site has really seemed to find its own voice and audience and taken off. In fact, in that short time my traffic has almost quadrupled, and I've started to make connection with some really cool people.

That tells me that when it comes to blogging, a narrower focus is probably better than a broad one. With that in mind, I'm thinking about making a few changes - first off, I'll probably be putting up a second blog where I focus on roleplaying games. While Warmachine will remain the focus on this site (and always will be), roleplaying games are really my first love. My interest there is really pretty broad, and I enjoy playing a lot of D&D, Pathfinder and d20 Modern, and we are starting to dabble with games like Star Wars, Dark Heresy, Serenity and Shadowrun. I'd like a place to deep dive into that stuff, but doing that here just feels like I'm splitting the audience. So, for those of you that have some interest in that, I'll keep you posted when that site goes up.

Next up, I think I'd like rename this site. "Gamehole" was a domain name I'd had laying around, and it made sense back when I was thinking about a site for all things gaming. With the decision to have a narrower focus, I'll probably be moving this blog off of my own server and back to Blogger so I can take advantage of some of the nice community features like "follow this blog" and the dynamic blog roll. Before I do that, I need to come up with a new name. I'd like to come up with a name that does a better job evoking the idea of miniatures or Warmachine, but to be honest, I'm drawing a blank. So, put your collective brains together and help me come up with some ideas, and post them in the comments. I might even come up with some kind of prize for a winning entry.

Thanks for reading,
dangerfish