Ben Overmyer's Site
Becoming a Student Again
Revisiting the Kingdoms of Stone and Fire
Migrated gemlog content into this site
Dune: Awakening - First Impressions
2025 Mid-Year Review
Awaiting Dune
Old and New Experiences
Small web and self-hosting in a world in crisis
Looking Ahead to 2025
2024 Year in Review
2024 Midyear Project Update
Looking Ahead to 2024
2023 Year in Review
Upgrading the star and planet generators on Iron Arachne
Retrospective on November 2023 wellness challenge
Wellness challenge halfway point
First week of wellness challenge
Wellness challenge for November 2023
State of my projects for October 2023
Currently
Old sites and art galleries
Adding a coding reference section
I got a tattoo!
Pivoting back to full-stack developer
Iron Arachne turns five
Looking Ahead to 2023
2022 Year in Review
Old School Baroque
Make the world small again
First Day in Dragonflight
Regarding social media, web presence, and dumpster fires
Return to Blizzard
Checking back in on Blizzard
Word generation in Iron Arachne
Iron Arachne Dungeon Generator and future plans
Finished Shadowbringers
No Man's Sky
Upgrading the Iron Arachne planet generator
April 2022 update on my RPG projects
Looking ahead to 2022
2021 Year in Review
The New HeroQuest
An Eventful Few Months
Blizzard is dead to me.
Hrenovuha, the horseradish liquor
Open Source North 2021
Old RPGs of Mine
Games in progress
Building things slowly, and with feeling
A new wishlist for Star Wars: Galaxies 2
Switching to Zola
Another Forgotten Project: Mysteries of a Broken World
Updating Ingenium: Dusting off the manuscript
Looking Ahead to 2021
2020 Year in Review
Uvinji
Just More Color
On Forever Projects
Leading Up to Shadowlands
On Blogging Versus Social Media
On right action and American politics
Minimal CSS
Generating Worlds: Faking Realism
Predictions for 2030
Learning to use emacs
News sites in a post-advertisement world
Updates to Iron Arachne: The World API and more
Regarding My Blogs
Getting back into MMORPGs
Setting up a new personal blog
Iron Arachne Updates for January
My Spin on the Unix Philosophy
Year in Review 2018
Designing an OSR Game Part 4: Alignment, Treasure, and Exploration
My Breakfast: A Recipe and a Ritual
Designing an OSR Game Part 3: Names, Backgrounds, and Playtests
Designing an OSR Game Part 2: Freeholds and Fatality
On Gryphons and Their Kin
Designing a New OSR Game
Playing Characters You Hate
Project Status, August 2018
My Politics, 2018 Edition
Heraldry Generation Pt. 3: Animal Charges and Windows Builds
The Nature of DevOps
Heraldry Generation Pt. 2: Go, Divisions, and Charges
Heraldry Generation Pt. 1: Basics
Generating Fantasy Worlds
Regarding Silver Gryphon Games
Adding Blog Here
Write Simple Code to Prevent Headaches Later
Looking back on 2016, and forward to 2017
From Developer to DevOps: My Story
Fixing the Ansible 2.1 Temporary File Permissions Issue
3 Reasons why I gave up the Ghost
Moving back to WordPress.
Switching away from iPhone
So, You Want to Leave America
2015 Year in Review
Kettle, my personal dashboard app
Tutorial: Dealing with Disk Space Errors in Linux
Quick update, and Hugo
Taking up the writing habit again
Get Going with Laravel on Docker
Making army lists in Age of Sigmar
Age of Sigmar breaks Warhammer Fantasy, but it's worth it
Gamehole Con, Day 1
Gamehole Con, Day 0
Star Wars Galaxies: A Community to Remember
Getting Ready for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
Contact Lost on Asherth
The Salamanders take on Chaos Imperial Guard
First Node.js Hackathon
Conquering 2014: Goals for the New Year
2013 Year in Review
My Dimension in Rift
My wishlist for a Star Wars Galaxies 2
EverQuest Next Revealed
Reawakening the Starborn
Returning to Skyrim
10 Years Ago, in an MMO far, far away
Build a Better Warrior in Rift
Create Better Villains for your Adventure
Profession Talents for Ingenium
Being Defiant: Finishing Out Rift's Free Tier
Being Defiant: Currencies Beyond Gold and Silver
World of Warcraft, Modern RPGs, and the Gear Grind
Crafting in Tabletop RPGs
Conquering 2013: Goals for the Year
Succeeding Star Wars: Galaxies
Star Wars: Galaxies Crafting
Why I left Guild Wars 2 for EverQuest 2
Guild Wars 2 is here!
Anticipating Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2 Final Beta Weekend
On Game Launches
Rediscovering Guild Wars
The Lore of Starsiege: Tribes
Lime Odyssey: Nostalgia
Blacklight: Retribution First Impressions
I killed Deathwing. Then, WoW died.
Whatever happened to benovermyer.com and manatrance.com?
Skyrim: A Nord's Tale, Part 4
Skyrim: A Nord's Tale, Part 3
Skyrim: A Nord's Tale, Part 2
Skyrim: A Nord's Tale, Part 1
Dungeons & Delectibles
Learning to let go
Age of Conan
Back to the World of Warcraft, and...
What do I do?
What the client wants isn't always what they need
Earth Day 2008
Moving to mobile: how to work from any computer
Do you really need that?
Choice in the workplace? What will they think of next?
Fear and aggression; the dark side, are they?
Wake up with the sun and regain control of your life
Finally, at long last...
Once in awhile: a recipe
Forget the rules and tell a story
Connect and prosper
Three lists that will save you time and keep you sane
The art of eating M&Ms
Another clash of the generations
The workplace? Nah, we need the lifeplace.
On leveling and collections in Star Wars Galaxies
Get an awesome new hobby to improve and enrich your life!
Web workers don't need Stuff.
The art of positive deletion
The Imperial March
Free software, free world
Leveraging Web 2.0 for a tabletop gaming company
From Lord of the Rings Online to...
Yuletide in Lord of the Rings Online
Minstrels in green linen
Web standards, browsers, and the future of the web
The Lord of the Rings Online: Introducing Ceolrigan
T-Mobile must be boycotted
Why Jorn Barger is wrong and the rest of the world is right
Fitness full time
Liberty vs economy: How far can we go?
Second Life, MMORPGs, and conversation
Stream of consciousness, part one: the Internet
Live free. Live open source.
Partisanship is vile. What loss to this country...
True open source - death of the individual or celebration of individualism?