I'm BACK!

Every blog's got to have an "I'm BACK!" post, right? Well, I never thought this blog would.

Sometime in 2015, the official Wizards Of The Coast's community shut down. They did give a warning some time before, and I did say to myself I would have saved at least a selection of the crazy amount of content I had created there. But alas, I forgot, and on the announced day, the lights at Wizards' servers went off.

Together with hours of writing, a lot of the images that were used for this blog went down the drain, making the blog look like a war-zone of broken-image placer icons and empty space.
I felt so bad that I found no more will to go on, with this otherwise pleasant hobby.

Now, all of a sudden (and I have no clue how) I found out that the Wayback Machine of The Internet Archive had saved quite a lot of my stuff, including most of the images that were linked here!

I quickly saved all the blog and forum pages in PDF and all the images I found.
Now, the question that remained was where to host all this stuff, to then link it here.
Turns out cloud storage is extremely bad for this purpose, due to the way they dissuade direct linking to file.
Therefore, I dusted off another extremely ancient fossil of my digital presence online: a Sourceforge project I abandoned in 2002 (I was 15!!), but that is incredibly still online: the Gremlin Engine project, also related to RPGs, but back when I was smart and I could code them, instead of just write about them.

The problem was how to get access to something that was connected to my first email address ever, by Tiscali, the first free internet provider in the world, if I remember correctly, and one of the only such "firsts" from Italy, and from its island region of Sardinia.
Turns out they never deleted me from there either, and even if the domain changed, they even kept the redirect from the old domain to the new one. So when I went through password recovery on Sourceforge, I got back all my access credentials, including FTP access to my Sourceforge space, and with it a new place for the images for this blog!

So for now this is all I want to write here, but I will soon post old and new content, to celebrate this blast from the past.

See you soon, my minions! :D