It’s the first day of Blaugust! One of my favorite days of the year. It’s awesome to watch my RSS feed fill up with posts, more posts than I could ever hope to read. It’s always fun to check out the new blogs that join the event and see blogs from past events come back to life (hey, kinda like this one!).

If you’re new to Blaugust, welcome! If you’re returning, welcome back! If you somehow stumbled upon this blog and don’t know what Blaugust is check out Krikket’s post here!: https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2025/07/10/blaugust-2025-is-coming/

If you haven’t been to my blog before, Hi, I’m Kluwes! Apparently, I’ve been blogging for nine years. I could have sworn it was only six or seven. Must have lost count a few years ago! I tend to write about video games but I’ve been known to wander on to some other topics sometimes. Not much has changed since the last time I wrote and introduction post so I’ll go ahead a quote myself from last year:

“I’m Kluwes, this is my blog Many Welps. I write about video games and sometimes fiction podcasts/audio dramas. What you’ll find here are mostly accounts of play sessions either on my own or with my friends (like this). They’re my favorite blog posts to read and also my favorite to write! You’ll also find summaries of games that I finish in my Backlogged posts which I don’t like to call reviews but kind of end up being them anyways.”

I don’t have much of a plan for Blaugust this year. I won’t rule it out from the get go, but, I have a strong suspicion I will not be getting anywhere close to 31 posts this year. Possibly 10? That sounds like a reasonable goal. Let’s do that.

There I have a goal!

A few weeks ago, I was toying with the idea of using this month to play a game in a genre I don’t frequent, Traditional Rougelikes, and write about that. I’ve settled on playing Caves of Qud for this, now I just need to actually play it…

Anyways, happy Blaugust, can’t wait to read what everyone else is writing!