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I am starting an APA about boardgaming: Of Dice and Meeples.

This is a form of slow discussion originating among hobby printers in the 1870s with a digital update: each month, or whenever you can, you send in your own contribution (as a PDF file), I merge them together, and everyone can read them as a single document. Contributions contain both your own material, and comments on other people’s contributions in earlier issues.

I’ve been participating in the role-playing apa Ever and Anon for more than half a year, and having written the necessary software I wanted to keep its principles but extend them to a new topic.

Everyone is welcome to contribute. There’s a guide at the web site but “write something interesting, output it as a PDF” is the core of it, and if you can’t make a PDF you can throw practically any sort of document at PanDoc and get it out in that format.

Deadline for issue #1 is 2026-05-05T23:00:00Z

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I am sure I can write something. Interesting is more of a question :sweat_smile: how many words is considered an average contribution?

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There is no precedent 'cos it’s new.

Looking at Ever & Anon, my own contributions have varied between 3 and 6 pages of my own stuff (what I’ve been playing lately, my thoughts on the Ignorable Theme which is an entirely optional writing prompt, usually something else RPG-related that I feel like writing about) and about as much more in comments to other people’s zines from the previous issue.

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Since I already contribute to Ever and Anon and my thoughts on boardgaming are not interesting, even to me, I doubt I’d contribute this. But I did notice a couple of oddities:

It is about boardgaming? The first paragraph on the website says:

Of Dice and Meeples is a digital monthly Amateur Press Association (APA) about roleplaying games and is published under the Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

Assuming this is just a copy-and-paste error and the focus is on boardgaming, rather than setting a “Maximum length for fiction [of] 6 pages,” I suggest maybe forbidding fiction entirely. Fiction is more adjacent to roleplaying than boardgaming.

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Also, and I’m sure you just haven’t gotten around to it, you should announce this on the E&A Discord.

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I don’t Discord. You are welcome to pass on the message (and I’ll fix that text; Jim kindly gave me permission to use it).

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