{"id":3907,"date":"2015-05-03T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2015-05-03T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T11:34:48","slug":"a-mention-in-dispatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=3907","title":{"rendered":"A Mention in Dispatches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cory Ring sent me this yesterday. \u00a0Apparently some folks are using my <em>Santa Anna Rules<\/em> for the American Civil War. \u00a0<em>Santa Anna Rules<\/em> was written for the Mexican American War. \u00a0It&#8217;s always neat to hear about folks having fun with rules I wrote. \u00a0Too often the only feedback an author gets are the slings and arrows of outrageous reviewers on places like TMP, blogs, and glossy gaming magazines. \u00a0At the end of the day, the reward for developing rules is not cash (there&#8217;s little of that), but knowing that folks are having fun 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