In 52 weeks of d6ideas, we have published 131 articles in German and 140 articles in English, for a grand total of 271 articles in 2 languages in our first year.
Of these 271 articles, 52 in each language were editorials (one per week on Sundays), while the others were the actual gaming content that is our main focus. That content was split over 17 game systems (Blue Planet (20 articles), SLA Industries (18), The Red Star (16), Changeling the Lost (11), Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay (11), Unknown Armies (10), Earthdawn (5), d20 Modern (4), Shadowrun (4), Warhammer 40,000 (4), Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2), D&D 3.5/Pathfinder (1), D&D 4E (1), FATE (1), Feng Shui (1), Grimm (1), Twilight Imperium (1)) as well as 45 generic articles and 10 articles dealing with homebrew settings or systems.
14 people from 3 countries contributed to these articles.
| Week | Articles | Events | Prehistory | – | Making grandiose plans and putting up with banal organising |
| Year 1, Week 1 31 July – 06 August 2011 |
Introductions (Editorial) Arcanum Servitoris (Dark Heresy – English) Ambrosius Biotechnologie AG part 1 (Shadowrun – German) |
Kick-off |
| Year 1, Week 2 07 August – 13 August 2011 |
Introductions, Take 2 (Editorial) Der Slacker (Unknown Armies – German/English) Wer ist die Idiotessa? (What is …? – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 3 14 August – 20 August 2011 |
Introductions, Take 3 (Editorial) Ale Wraith (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay – English) How to GenCon (Meta – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 4 21 August – 27 August 2011 |
Articles eaten by spam! (Editorial) Social Complexity in RPGs (Meta – English) The Killed Corps (SLA Industries – English) |
Battle against the spam filter, which started to eat our own articles |
| Year 1, Week 5 28 August – 03 September 2011 |
One Month of d6ideas (Editorial) The GEOpards (Blue Planet – English) The Knightly Charge (D&D 4E – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 6 04 September – 10 September 2011 |
d6ideas and Networking (Editorial) Ambrosius Biotechnologie AG Part 2 (Shadowrun – German) Sisters of Battle House Rules (Warhammer 40,000 – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 7 11 September – 17 September 2011 |
Delays (Editorial) Cyberware and Free Will (Meta – German/English) What is… a mind expanding disease? (What is …? – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 8 18 September – 24 September 2011 |
Conflicts of Interest (Editorial) Good Clean Fun in the World of Progress (SLA Industries – English) Jungle Chase (Feng Shui – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 9 25 September – 01 October 2011 |
Transhumanism in Gaming (Editorial) Social Conflict (D&D 3.5/Pathfinder – English) Poseidon Retriever (Blue Planet – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 10 02 October – 08 October 2011 |
Online-hunt for Red October (Editorial) The Middenman (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay – English) Train Depot (The Red Star – German/English) |
Start of d6ideas The Red Star theme month |
| Year 1, Week 11 09 October – 15 October 2011 |
Writer’s Block (Editorial) The Warrior (d20 Modern – English) Hydra Variants (The Red Star – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 12 16 October – 22 October 2011 |
Social Acceptance of RPGs (Editorial) Infantry Weapons (The Red Star – English) What is… Fibre Punk? (What is …? – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 13 23 October – 29 October 2011 |
I am such a huge nerd… (Editorial) The Adventurer (d20 Modern – English) The Odnashdoi Utrom (The Red Star – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 14 30 October – 05 November 2011 |
Short-sighted Science Fiction players (Editorial) The Racial Wheel of Life (Meta – German/English) The Mind (d20 Modern – English) On the fly-translation: Grimm (Grimm – German) |
Changing to 2 German and 2 English articles per week (plus editorials) |
| Year 1, Week 15 06 November – 12 November 2011 |
RPGs and sources (Editorial) The Vagaries of Fate (Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay – German/English) Fear and Loathing in Los Muertos (SLA Industries – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 16 13 November – 19 November 2011 |
Sources of Inspiration (Editorial) The Grey Crusade (Blue Planet – German/English) What is… the Hermes-Alphabet? (What is …? – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 17 20 November – 26 November 2011 |
What to play? (Editorial) D6 Atlas, Page 1 (D6 Atlas – German/English) The Ghosts of Aragon (The Red Star – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 18 27 November – 03 December 2011 |
Wishlist I (Editorial) The Irradiated Scholar (Dark Heresy – German/English) The Brigades of Aragon (The Red Star – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 19 04 December – 10 December 2011 |
So what do you want for Christmas, Crow? (Editorial) D6 Atlas, Page 2 (D6 Atlas – German/English) New Strategy: Patience (Twilight Imperium – English) On the fly-translation: Changeling the Lost (Changeling the Lost – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 20 11 December – 17 December 2011 |
Wishlist III (Editorial) Tea Parties and 1-Percenter (Unknown Armies – German/English) Miranbrück Part 1 (Changeling the Lost – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 21 18 December – 24 December 2011 |
Wishlist IV (Editorial) Got Soft Juice? (SLA Industries – German/English) What is… Waterboy? (What is …? – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 22 25 December – 31 December 2011 |
Christmas Editorial (Editorial) Weihnachtswunder I: No Man’s Land (Homebrew – German/English) Miranbrück Part 2 (Changeling the Lost – German/English) |
Joining the German Carnival of RPG bloggers |
| Year 1, Week 23 01 January – 07 January 2012 |
New Year’s Pledges (Editorial) What is… the Dark Hollow? (What is …? – German/English) DEAD (SLA Industries – German/English) |
Changing from 4 articles (plus editorial) per week to 1d6 articles (plus editorial) split across German and English |
| Year 1, Week 24 08 January – 14 January 2012 |
Adventure Design (Editorial) D6 Atlas, Page 3 (D6 Atlas – German/English) C. A. Nada (Blue Planet – German/English) Kill the Ones You Love (SLA Industries – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 25 15 January – 25 January 2012 |
Probabilities in RPGs (Editorial) The Red Trooper Revised (The Red Star – English) Miranbrück Part 3 (Changeling the Lost – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 26 22 January – 28 January 2012 |
Horror in RPGs (Editorial) The Emperor’s Disguisers (Meta – German) On Stranger Tastes: Fruits of Poseidon (Blue Planet – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 27 29 January – 04 February 2012 |
Conversions (Editorial) The Laughing Dragon (Earthdawn – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 28 05 February – 11 February 2012 |
Company Time (Editorial) The Folding Knife (SLA Industries – German/English) D6 Atlas, Page 4 (D6 Atlas – German/English) The Other Side of War (The Red Star – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 29 12 February – 18 February 2012 |
Homebrewed (Editorial) Leymios (Homebrew – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 30 19 February – 25 February 2012 |
FATE and its Branches (Editorial) Miranbrück Part 4 (Changeling the Lost – German/English) Wounds and Initiative Chart (Blue Planet – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 31 26 February – 03 March 2012 |
Politics and Gaming Part I (Editorial) Fortune Cookie (Homebrew – German) What is… Royal Games? (What is …? – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 32 04 March – 10 March 2012 |
Politics and Gaming Part II (Editorial) D6 Atlas, Page 5 (D6 Atlas – German/English) Criminal Biomods (Blue Planet – German/English) On the Frontlines (The Red Star – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 33 11 March – 17 March 2012 |
Music in Gaming (Editorial) Miranbrück Part 5 (Changeling the Lost – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 34 18 March – 24 March 2012 |
Immortal RPGs (Editorial) The Lovers (Unknown Armies – German) Shooting the Hole (Blue Planet – English) What is… Totenmedizin (What is …? – German) Sandboxing in Deathwatch (Deathwatch – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 35 25 March – 31 March 2012 |
Game-prep? Get a Job! (Editorial) Nydele Part 1 (Homebrew – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 36 01 April – 07 April 2012 |
Battleships (Editorial) D6 Atlas, Page 6 (D6 Atlas – German/English) What is… Heldenerz? (What is …? – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 37 08 April – 14 April 2012 |
Crowd Funding (Editorial) What is… a Cerulean Cossack? (What is …? – English) The Troll (Unknown Armies – German/English) Nydele Part 2 (Homebrew – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 38 15 April – 21 April 2012 |
Shout Out! (Editorial) The Foris Cluster (Deathwatch – German/English) Blue Ops Gear (Blue Planet – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 39 22 April – 28 April 2012 |
Copyright I (Editorial) Shadow War (The Red Star – English) The Middle Class Killer (Shadowrun – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 40 29 April – 05 May 2012 |
Copyright II (Editorial) Marine Hybrids (Blue Planet – German/English) Magic in FATE (FATE – German) Top 10 BPN Halls (SLA Industries – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 41 06 May – 12 May 2012 |
Copyright III (Editorial) D6 Atlas, Page 7 (D6 Atlas – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 42 13 May – 19 May 2012 |
All in One? (Editorial) The Suicide Operative (Dark Heresy – German/English) Nydele Part 3 (Homebrew – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 43 20 May – 26 May 2012 |
Music in the Game, not at the Table (Editorial) Bards Done Right (Meta – German) What is… an Elemental Bull (What is …? – English) |
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| Year 1, Week 44 27 May – 02 June 2012 |
Help Wanted! (Editorial) d20MAKS (d20 Modern – English) What is… Glasrhythmus (What is …? – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 45 03 June – 09 June 2012 |
Normal Service Will Be Resumed Shortly (Editorial) Samsonov Vampire (The Red Star – English) Sankt Odile (Warhammer 40,000 – German/English) Three Against the Shanghai Seven (Unknown Armies – German/English) |
Adopting WordPress – not so easy as we hoped |
| Year 1, Week 46 10 June – 16 June 2012 |
Tech Monkey Rant (Editorial – German/English Thread Spider (Earthdawn – German/English) 0 (SLA Industries – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 47 17 June – 23 June 2012 |
Thoughts on Blue Planet v3 (Editorial) Guppy (Blue Planet – German/English) What is… an Ahnenkamm? (What is …? – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 48 24 June – 30 June 2012 |
More Thoughts on Blue Planet (Editorial) D6 Atlas, Page 8 (D6 Atlas – German/English) 0/2 (SLA Industries – German/English) The Scaenomancer (Unknown Armies – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 49 01 July – 07 July 2012 |
Frogtoe and Reptiletongue (Editorial) The Long Dark Teatime of Barsaive (Earthdawn – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 50 08 July – 14 July 2012 |
Warhammer 40,000 6th Editon (Editorial) D6 Atlas, Page 9 (D6 Atlas – German/English) |
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| Year 1, Week 51 15 July – 21 July 2012 |
Age of Frogs and Reptiles (Editorial) What is… a Hydramaske (What is …? – German) |
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| Year 1, Week 52 22 July – 28 July 2012 |
Coming Home (Editorial) The Tree of Knowledge (Blue Planet – German/English) |
The migration of articles to WordPress is still ongoing |
| Year 2, Week 1 29 July – 07 July 2012 |
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