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The Decade of Blogging Nerdily: Critical Hits is 10

October 6, 2015 by Dave

Our first post went up October 6th, 2005. Ten years later, we’re still blogging. Here’s a look back at the last decade, along with some reminiscing, our favorite posts, stats, and what’s happening next.

Filed Under: Featured, Newest Critical Hits, News Tagged With: anniversary, blogging, blogiversary, happy birthday critical hits

One Hundred Monkeys, One Hundred Typewriters, One Hundred Wands Of Magic Missile

April 10, 2012 by Vanir

As some of you are no doubt aware, WotC has once again opened the window for article pitches to Dungeon and Dragon. For the first time in my life, I have decided to submit some stuff. As I have been writing about roleplaying games for nearly 5 years now, and with the recent success in this arena of several of my esteemed blog-tribe fresh in my mind, one might think I would be overconfident. One would be crazy wrong.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: bell curve, blogging, Chuck Wendig, courage, Creativity, dragon, dungeon, naked choke, scared, science, statistics, Submission, submitting, Writing

Chatty DM, Freelancer, Part 3: RPG Blogging, The Revelation

July 24, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty relates some anecdotes about his first year as a blogger, his first lessons and, more importantly, his coming to terms with what he always has been since middle school…

Filed Under: blogging, Featured, Freelance Writing, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Bipolar Disorder, Blogger, blogging, Freelance Writing, Writing

Critical Hits is a Trilogy

October 7, 2008 by Dave

From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief: The time has come once again where we indulge in a little celebration. A little over three years ago, I started the conversations that would eventually lead to founding Critical Hits. Looking back, we definitely started a bit rocky, and it took us a while to find what we […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: anniversary, blog, blogging, celebrate good times come on, stats, trilogy, year 3

Inquisition of the Week: Blogging?

September 8, 2008 by Dave

Thanks for letting us know who you are! Not only do we like to attach the people to the online personas, but those of you who tell us what you like to read and what you don’t really help us determine what to write. Now that con season is over, it may be more difficult […]

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