T Bone's Games Diner

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support

Submitted by tbone on Mon, 2004-08-16 18:41.

Thank you, Esteemed Visitor, for your readership and comments. I hope you find something of use on this site.

While it's a lot of fun to put things up here, time is always in too-short supply, and over the years, the site hosting costs add up to a chunk of change as well. If you'd like to ensure that the site keeps running and the fresh material stays flowing, I greatly appreciate your taking a glance below at simple ways you can support the Diner:

Participate

Content is a site's level, Strength, Parry, Offensive Combat Value, and hit-point reserve, all wrapped into one. (¿What the heck am I saying here?) Your comments create great content for other readers to enjoy and discuss.

I welcome submissions of bigger content as well, such as articles, or even projects of interest to gamers; if this site's various features can support your project, great!

See user interaction for more.

Link to the Diner

The Diner has its fans, but could use more love in the linking game. If you've got a web site whose readers could be interested in what's here, and vice-versa, I'm happy to share links.

And if you don't have a site, please do mention content here in relevant forums, comments, etc. elsewhere on the Internet. I'm sure there are gamers who could find something of interest here if they knew about the site.

See the story on linking at links.

Click, shop, etc.

Among sponsor links, I've listed a number of gaming products at bookshelf; if you see something you've been clamoring for, following the vendor (such as Amazon) link from this site results in a small but satisfying thwack that bypasses all DR and applies directly to the bandwidth bill's hit points.

Grace the Tip Jar

There are the occasional saints who have written to say they want to donate something of pecuniary value, so allow me to accomodate! Milking the lame "diner" theme to the max means allowing for voluntary tipping. So if you want to leave a quid, please do. (See can't-miss-it graphic at right.) If not, that's fine. (Any money will probably go toward gaming books anyway, so think of it as something of a tip for the industry.)

My deep thanks to anyone so generous as to donate. But if it comes down to a choice between tipping the Diner or answering your baby's hungry tummy... well, I hear chewing on leather helps with that. (Kidding, kidding...)

In any case, just please don't do that trick where you put the coins in a full glass of water, firmly place a card over the top of the cup, quickly place it all upside down on the Formica, and slide out the card, leaving a nasty water trap for the harried waiter/busboy... (Only do that when service is really bad, and don't tell them I taught you, okay?)

Hew garden gnomes from the living rock in my Rumanian granite mine

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Separate from the above, your reports of problems, and suggestions for improvement, are perhaps the biggest help of all. Fire away! Thanks.

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