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Hey, thanks for the shout-out! I'm still trying to find "my voice", and the blog is sort of mostly a scratch pad for getting words out of my head. My early combative stuff is getting a revision so some posts in the near future are going to be dedicated to that (along with a long list of just misc. stuff that's better posted somewhere than mouldering in Google Drive or my myriad GM binders). Thanks again!