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Douglas Sun
@DougSunTracked since May 2026
a blog about games and other geeky topics.
Observed Aug 19, 2026 · staleModeled revenue
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7
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$10
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$5/mo
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Ranking data · includes stale rows| Rank | Creator and why included | Paid members | Gap vs Douglas Sun | Freshness |
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| #1 |  Douglas SunProfileWritingPaid members position in Recommended cohort | 2 | Reference | Aug 19, 2026Stale |
| #1 |  DownshiftWritingCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | 2 | Same value | Aug 19, 2026 |
| #1 |  Downtown Gallery CrawlWritingCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | 2 | Same value | Aug 19, 2026 |
| #1 |  Dr. DafrokWritingCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | 2 | Same value | Aug 20, 2026 |
| #1 |  DrAlexisWritingCategory, audience, pricing & cadence | 2 | Same value | Aug 20, 2026 |
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Recent posts
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Image Latest postPublicReview: PC port of GMT Games' SaratogaI posted a brief review of the PC port of GMT Games' Saratoga, the first in their Battles of the American Revolution series of hex-and-counter board wargames, now available on Steam. TLDR (although it's hardly TL): It's faithful to the original, and it works. AI opponent not as smart as it should be, though perhaps the problem is that I've played the system quite a lot already and understand how it works.
February 8 0 likes 0 commentsThe Existential Elf: Reviewing "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End"Over on my Substack blog, I marked the debut of Season 2 of "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" with a review of Season 1 and some thoughts about how anime and manga have made use of use of Western fantasy, but in ways that often seem to be filtered through Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy roleplaying games.ArticleJanuary 20Public 0 0Dune: Imperium — a reviewPosted a review of Dire Wolfe's Dune: Imperium, both the boardgame and their digital port of their boardgame, to my Substack. Didn't seem much sense in separating the two for that purpose.ArticleSep 15, 2025Public 0 0A post-mortem of our latest crowdfunding effortOur crowdfunding campaigns for Lair of the Storm Giant funded. Whew! I posted a post-mortem of the experience to "I Think We've Been Playing It Wrong," including whether or not it was a good idea to run concurrent campaigns on Kickstarter and Backerkit. It's behind the paywall, but if you join my Patreon for $5/month, I will gift you a premium subscription for as long as you remain a member.ImageAug 8, 2025Public 0 0Our Pathfinder titles on sale at 30% off!Thanks to DriveThru RPG's annual Paizo Con sale, you can get PDF copies of all of our Pathfinder-compatible titles — including Severed Heads and Broken Blades — for 30% off! Sale prices good through Memorial Day. Help us get a Copper Best Seller badge for Book of Chance Meetings, our deep dive into random wilderness encounters using the 2E open license creatures! Linkage and other odds and ends on my Substack blog, "I Think We've Been Playing It Wrong."ArticleMay 19, 2025Public 0 0GMT Games' Versailles 1919: a wargame about peaceI posted a review of Versailles 1919, GMT Games' and Mark Herman's game about the Paris Conference that produced the Versailles Treaty. With brief detours into Margaret MacMillan's excellent history of the event, and von Clausewitz and wargames as part of a continuum of games.ImageMay 9, 2025Public 0 0In praise of older games: Revisiting SPI's Blue & Gray QuadrigameBack to blogging: SPI's venerable quartet of American Civil War battle games turns 50 this year! Did you realize this? I didn't, but all the same I played Shiloh with a friend this weekend and blogged some thoughts on the experience. It's behind the paywall, but if you support the blog by becoming a Patreon member I'll gift you a subscription for as long as you stay a member.ImageMay 1, 2025Public 0 0Don't look back, Kickstarter, Gamefound might be gaining on youBoardGameWire reports that dollars raised on Gamefound rose sharply year-over-year in 2024, even while dollars raised for tabletop game campaigns has been declining on Kickstarter for the last few years. What does that mean for Ramen Sandwich Press? It makes sense of our recent past and makes the future cloudy.ImageFeb 7, 2025Public 0 0Gaming while assailed by all four elementsNews and notes from a time of air and fire, water and earth. Including a link to support Rodger MacGowan and C3i Magazine and good news about The Hobgoblin's Fortress staying on track.ImageJan 26, 2025Public 0 0My Pendragon RPG campaign: the start of the storyI start sharing my notes toward a King Arthur Pendragon RPG on my blog. It's premium content, so you'll need a paid subscription to access it. Fortunately, if you'd rather support my work through Patreon instead of Substack, you can become a $5 member and I'll gift you a paid subscription to "I Think We've Been Playing It Wrong" for the duration of your membership.ImageJan 17, 2025Public 0 0Game review: King Arthur Pendragon RPGBefore I start sharing my notes toward a campaign for Greg Stafford’s industry-standard King Arthur roleplaying game, I offer a review — really, just a bunch of quick reactions to the game — on my blog. Becoming one of my paid Patreon members will get you access to the Arthurian goodness to come, as I will gift you a complimentary subscription for every month that you remain a Patreon member.ImageJan 14, 2025Public 0 0Ramen Sandwich housekeeping to start the yearSome announcements and thinking aloud about the present and future of Ramen Sandwich Press and Ramen Sandwich Tees, as well as "I Think We've Been Playing It Wrong."ImageJan 3, 2025Public 0 0
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