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Welcome to Packbat Wiki!

I started this site in 2012 as a place for me to write about things that interested me -- but if you're interested in contributing to or commenting on any of these pages, feel free to create an account. As a spam restriction measure you will be initially restricted to the Talk pages; post on mine to get fuller editing access. (Unfortunately, spam is growing to be a noticeable problem, and I've needed to be more liberal with the banhammer; let me know if I screw up via my gmail address -- my first name followed by the first four letters of my last name.)

-- Robin Zimmermann.

P.S. If you are having difficulties registering a username, this may be because you are browsing on packbat.com instead of packbat.net -- if so, try this link.

Recent Additions

• NaNoWriMo -- a page about National Novel Writing Month, or more precisely about my attempting to write a NaNoWriMo novel.
• Resolutions 2013 -- because self-improvement isn't a bad thought.
• Minecraft -- an abiding interest of mine, and the bane of all productivity.
• Superhero RPG Brainstorming -- because I'm not satisfied with a lot of RPG systems I've seen and I want to work out my thoughts.
• Link:Web Fiction -- mostly as an excuse to promote Worm, but it's a major category of interest either way.
• SpaceChem -- one of the best (and most intellectually demanding) puzzle games out there.

Starting Points

• Packbat's Recreations
  • Wherein the site owner blathers about some of the pointless stuff he does.
• Packbat's Reading
  • Wherein the selfsame site owner maunders about books he has skimmed.
• Dispatches
  • Wherein reports are made on places and events.
• Idea Pad
  • Wherein ideas are thrown at a wall to see what sticks.
• Quotes
  • Wherein memorable phrasings are not-particularly-im-mortalized.
• Pro Tips
  • Wherein useful suggestions of little to no import are provided.
• Link:Art, Link:Webcomics, Link:Web Fiction
  • Wherein URLs that, at one point, directed browsers to interesting visual works, visual sequential works, and textual sequential works accumulate.
• Scales
  • Wherein criteria are proposed for the measurement of arbitrary qualities.
• Sandbox
  • Wherein experiments with Wiki formatting are conducted and randomly deleted.

Serial Works

• Roll to Dodge - Zombie Apocalypse
  • "Roll to Dodge" is a simplified kind of forum roleplaying game in which the outcome of each action is determined by rolling a single d6. theplague42 and Packbat have been moderating this game since January 2011 - the page on this site is an archive of the game so far.