In a recent message to all role-players everywhere, Wizards of the Coast has announced that they are taking focused and concerted efforts towards removing the questionable content from their material, including providing some updates to the way the various races and monsters are handled, described, and even created as characters. You can read about this …
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Charity drive II
The good people at DriveThruRPG will soon be running another charity drive; this one is for Black Lives Matter. I will again be participating in this as this is a very, very timely and necessary cause to support. The world (most especially my beloved America) is descending into chaos. Our elected leader is not leading; …
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Community closing
As indicated earlier, the Community is failing. I have tried playing with the settings for the message boards, but almost everyone (it seems) that has registered for the Community is there to post spam. I continue to purge these people (bots?) and their posts, but this is all I have time to do. The number …
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Charity bundle
The bundle that Arcanum can be found in is the one that benefits Doctors Without Borders. You can find the bundle here. If you want a PDF of the book, now is a great time to get it!
GenCon cancelled
GenCon 2020 will not be happening. I think this is the right thing to do; it took them some time to get to the point of announcing this, so I can only guess what set of events pushed them over the edge into making this difficult decision. My son (Thomas) and his lovely wife might …
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Errata v1.3 updated
An error was discovered in the example character in the Arcanum PDF and print volumes. This is a very minor error (the character’s strength is listed as providing a +2 damage bonus when it should be a +1 bonus). This error was caused by the fact that in the earlier editions, Strength had an odd, …
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Community failing
A while back, I launched the ZiLa Games Community. This message board system was put in place with the idea of replacing the lost discussion capability of Facebook and the like when I retreated from that platform. At first, it was wonderful! A user started posting about his ideas for a setting and the like. …
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Charity drive
The good people at One Book Shelf (the people behind DriveThu RPG and Dungeon Masters Guild) run an annual D&D sale every May. This year, based on the current global climate, they have decided to skip this event and replace it with a charity sale instead. This is the email I received: Dear DriveThru / OBS publishers, Due to …
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Covid-19
The world is a strange place right now. Every single country in the world is trying desperately to deal with the impacts of a global pandemic. As governments, companies, and average citizens try to figure out how to make the new normal that has been thrust upon them work, we find that the most basic …
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