Tag Archives: Top 10

If—like some of my friends—you bounced off the first few episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks, but are willing to give it another try, I offer this Top 10 14 list, arranged in chronological order. Two of the top 14 are from Season 1, and three are from each subsequent season. And the last episode of each season is in the Top 14 (and the penultimate episode of each season is in the Top 14 except for season 3). Why the Top 14? Because I won’t compile a best-of list […]

April is National Poetry Month, but few Americans name any contemporary poets when asked what poets they can think of and who their favorite poet is. In fact, it’s a Dead Poets Society for the Top 35 poets, all of whom are deceased. Four out of ten Americans name Edgar Allan Poe, making him the most famous poet by far. In fact, 29% of respondents named him first, and 18% said he was their favorite poet. A distant second is the Bard. William Shakespeare was named by two out of […]

For the most recent stats, check Best of Troy Press. 2023 Now that 2023 is in the books, I present the final stats on what your fellow readers found most interesting. The Top 10 most-viewed blog posts throughout the year: The Top 10 games by views: And here are the Top 10 blog posts that were written this year: I hadn’t intended to become a Star Trek blogger, but, hey, LLAP. And here are the bottom 10 (not counting December posts), if you want to show them some love: 39.  Tips […]

Embarrassingly, my number one album this year was Subspace Rhapsody, the soundtrack to the Strange New Worlds’ musical episode. (Last year it was We Are.) After seeing my top songs from the album, I was curious about what others thought. I crunched the numbers for listener stats from Spotify and viewer stats from YouTube. The top three for Spotify were “Status Report” (the first song sung by the crew), “I’m the X” (Spock’s solo), and “I’m Ready” (Christine Chapel’s song). The top three for YouTube were “We are One” (the finale), “How Would […]

I went back through the Dungeon World subreddit posts to come up with the top 10 things that people should know when making the switch from D&D 5e— And you may find these other discussions from Reddit helpful: Finally, here’s my own story of why I switched from 5e to Dungeon World and a supplement I made for incorporating 5e skills. Photo by Carlos Cram on Unsplash.