Normally when I do the A-Z Blog Challenge, I wrap up with a ‘Z-A Index’ of the posts that month. I’m tired, and it’s an easy title and basically mechanical post.

This year I could have used the post title ‘Zounds! Almost 40,000 Words!’

In fact, that was the working title until I decided that being consistent with previous years’ practice would be better.

Counting this post, I have written 39,006 words for this challenge, and I’ve laid the groundwork, or least done the pre-thinking, for a game I had no idea I was going to work on.

I thought I was going to file down the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game to bare metal, then rebuild it the way I would have liked to see it. Instead, I almost immediately jumped the rails and started replacing mechanics left and right, where I didn’t discard them entirely (bye, ability scores!)

‘Jump The Rails’ actually might be a better title for this series. I thought about changing it, but I was mid-series and figured that would not be a great idea. I might still do it, now that I’m wrapping the series up.

I think I probably will continue work on this game, though. Now that I’m not constrained to the blog post title format of the challenge I can go back and refine things in a more organized manner.

Without further ado, here is the Z-A Index for my A-Z Blog Challenge of 2020.

Date	Post Title	Words
2020-04-30	Just the Rules: Z-A Index, 2020	550
2020-04-29	Just The Rules: Yet More Drawbacks	2772
2020-04-28	Just The Rules: Examining Existing Drawbacks	2990
2020-04-27	Just The Rules: Widening Caster Traditions	2052
2020-04-26
2020-04-25	Just The Rules: Variant Spell Casting	1751
2020-04-24	Just the Rules: Ultimate Spheres of Power	382
2020-04-23	Just The Rules: Tiered Definitions	426
2020-04-23	Just The Rules: Treasure!	659
2020-04-22	Just The Rules: Skills and Actions	516
2020-04-22	Just The Rules: Spell Casting	1273
2020-04-21	Just The Rules: Ranger Up	638
2020-04-20	Just The Rules: Quick Recap	1614
2020-04-19
2020-04-18	Just The Rules: Pokevolving Companions	600
2020-04-18	Just The Rules: Paths of Prestige	1118
2020-04-17	Just The Rules: One Path or Another	999
2020-04-16	Just The Rules: New Take on the Cavalier	1804
2020-04-15	Just The Rules: Mythic Adventures is a Gold Mine	847
2020-04-14	Just The Rules: Larger Than Life through Legendary Abilities	954
2020-04-13	Just The Rules: K — Roman for 1000 — Paths	194
2020-04-13	Just The Rules: Kreshtar, Dwarves, and Other Races	1002
2020-04-12
2020-04-11	Just The Rules: Jewels, Gold, and Other Treasures	1616
2020-04-10	Just The Rules: Items of Power	456
2020-04-09	Just The Rules: Higher Expectations	1618
2020-04-08	Just The Rules: Godbound	1163
2020-04-07	Just The Rules: Feats	765
2020-04-06	Just The Rules: Effort, Limiting Actions	967
2020-04-06	Just The Rules: Expert Path Creation	1370
2020-04-05
2020-04-04	Just The Rules: Decisions	110
2020-04-04	Just The Rules: Defining Advancement	479
2020-04-04	Just The Rules: Divine Blood	668
2020-04-04	Just the Rules: Damage and Healing	1102
2020-04-03	Just The Rules: Classes	1568
2020-04-02	Just The Rules: Basic Task Resolution	1412
2020-04-01	Just The Rules: Advancement	689
2020-04-01	Just The Rules: Ability Scores	938
2020-04-01	Just The Rules: Assumptions and Biases	710
2020-03-21	A-Z Blog Challenge 2020: Just the Rules	234
		39006