Tavern Chat

The failed G4 Network will return later this month and Invitation to Party is one of the network's new shows. Live audiences on Twitch and Youtube will affect the direction of each episode. https://www.thathashtagshow.com/2021/11/11/g4-announces-dungeons-and-dragons-presents-invitation-to-party/

Well, it looks like "Duck" Leason is returning home, leaving the Dungeon Hobby Shop without its curator. Ernie Gygax states that the DHS Museum is closed, but will open to gamers by appointment.

There is a potential deal in the making between Gail Gygax and Luke Gygax, re: the EGG Revocable Trust (Gary Gygax's Estate)

I read this in a thread at ENWorld, announcing the recruitment by WotC of a Senior Game Designer position. 

It is a painful truth.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/wizards-is-hiring-a-senior-game-designer-for-dungeons-dragons.684230/

Bad Mike & Tenkar are joined by Douglas Cole (Gaming Ballistic, Dungeon Grappling, Dragon Heresy, and much more.

Nordland Bestiary and Enemies Book launched 11/18/21

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamingballistic/nordlond-bestiary-and-enemies-book?ref=39cpby&token=7308c8b7

As I've been delving into Arduin, I've been treating it almost like an archeological dig. I've been more interested in essays than crunch, and I've been focused on finding how the earlier works have influenced later and current game design. Is this the path the viewers want me to walk?

Continuing my perusal of Arduin, I take a look at Space Aliens & Other Aliens in Fantasy RPGs. Dave's words are likely more inciteful than he had envisioned, and I'm glad to have found them.

Returning to Arduin, I take a look at Dave's article Notes on Alignment and Playability. While I don't agree with everything Dave writes in this piece, it does encourage one to think "outside the box" in terms of alignment.

I spoke earlier today with George DeRosa, VP at Emperors Choice. Emperors Choice owns the TM and Copyright to Arduin and a ton of unpublished works by David Hargrave. There are large plans for Arduin in 2022. Also, orders are now being taken at https://empcho.com/about-arduin/ 

Huge thanks to George DeRosa for taking the time out of his day to talk with me.

I've started to delve deeply into The Arduin Trilogy. Although I own the books in print in their original digest size, I find them easier to read in the nicely laid out and formatted PDF. Today I was struck by Dave's article on DM's Vs Angry Players, and thus I remark on it.