Every Friday a new post popped up here on JimmyChattin.com – while not all of the same quality, the best rise to the top while past-years’ evergreen content stays as green as ever. Here is your guide to the top 10 of 2023:
10. Lasers + Shields = Boom in Dune
Y’all are nerds. This evergreen post from 2019 dives into the napkin-math explaining how devastating lasers and shields function in the Dune universe.
9. Rewriting: Halo 4
One of my favorite applications of the 6-point story structure of successful Halo stories caught some people’s eyes. The article breaks down what happened in the Halo 4 game, how it deviated from the tried-and-true point structure for narrative, and suggests how the game could have gotten on track while foretelling what could have come in Halo 5 (which didn’t, correlating with the series’ downward trend in reception).
8. A Trinity of RPG Classes
Short and sweet, the blog outlines how Tank, DPS, and Support are the three core classes all other classes derive from in roleplaying games. Edits included from a healthy discussion on LinkedIn after publication.
7. The Best of This Modern Relationship Guide: Make It Happen
Author Logan Ury is such a boss. How Not to Die Alone is in the top-5 of relationship books you need to have read. This part 1 gives the same advice I gave a stranger to get them a second date – get educated and do better in your relationships by putting in the work of reading this article ~
Already have a relationship? Head to part 2!
6. Tribe of Mentors: A Share of Value
A set of superb Qs with very considered answers. Some of the closest-to-heart and best-advice I could come up with at writing.
5. #PaidMe2023
Who knew having access to unobscured financial data proves to be useful?
Continuing the 2020 trend, I share salary data for industry, geo-location, and role.
4. How to Price Your RPG
Data on the best-selling tabletop roleplaying games shows a nifty pattern on how to price RPGs. Refer here when you are considering publishing your own games!
3. Chat With an AI: ChatGPT
2022 was the dawn of regular-use AI. In 2023, I sat down to explore the capabilities of the machine on topics from relationships, universal truths, and sentience.
2. Bringing d20 Poly-Dice to 2d6
Sometimes a person could use a handy-dandy conversion of one dice set’s probabilities into another. Here is my guide for mating D20 and 2D6 systems together.
1. Eight Dates Essential to You and Yours
The Gottmans and their world-class institute have paved the way for modern psychology as it comes to couples. Touching on only a smidgen of their research, Eight Dates outlines decades of work into principles that can build and maintain the strongest of bonds.
Return of a Grimdark Favorite
BITS of Mörk Borg remains off this list because it had 3x the total views of the next contender. #1 in 2022 too, I still do not know what is driving so much interest in the post 🤷♂️
Give it a read – you might find out the spice that is a spiked-flail-to-the-face that is this game.
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Many 2022 posts are back with some friends going as far as 2019. Clearly, out of all the posts this year, I must encourage you to read these top-tier works.
Some last-minute honorables: A divorce lawyer’s guide to not messing relationships up and rewriting Halo 5.
Want to keep learning? Spy on 2021’s and 2020’s best posts. Cheers to finding something for you and yours ~
Jimmy Chattin 