Greetings traveler,

Welcome to the forty-fifth edition of the alcarin.com newsletter.
There is an archive of the previous newsletters in the Townhall and the columns are added to the Town Square, so you can always read it again.
With my personal vacation in the Austrian Alps, it has been quiet on Alcarin, at least concerning updates. There was only one update this month, but it was an interesting one: the Lightning Bow, a new prestige class for archers. The vacation also gave me a welcome period of rest and time to write poems and think of other new material for the site. And at the time of writing this newsletter, a large load of new updates has been done already (and I expect more to come). Since these were published in August, they're not shown in this edition of the mailinglist. Furthermore, work on the Elfstone MUD has made a lot of progress during the past month as well. Unfortunately, the columnist was very busy, so the mailinglist is "a bit" late this month.

Enjoy reading.

This letter's content:
1. What's New
2. Coming Up Soon
3. Column: Men with a Mission

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WHAT'S NEW:

01/07/2004 - added new prestige class to the School: "Lightning Bow"

Visit http://www.alcarin.com/townhall/updates.htm for the latest updates.

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COMING UP:

The coming month promises a lot of new updates on Alcarin. A lot of those updates are already online: several new poems, several new riddles, a new monster, a new magical item, a new custom rule, and some new material for the Landlord RPG. The main plans for the rest of the month are a new short story ("Zhean Moonblade"), a new medium level D&D mission ("The Crypt"), and work on the Elfstone MUD. The first two are projects that take a lot of time and and energy, so my current holidays are a good time to start.
With both me and Alcarin's software expert having holidays, the work on the MUD should keep up the quick pace of the past month.
The other main plans for the future are to work on the Elfstone Campaign Setting, to produce some more spells, monsters, playable races, etc. for the RPG Archives, work on the Landlord RPG. I'm not sure whether or not I'll be able to further work on those things this month, but they're on the to-do list anyway.

For up to date news on these major projects and other major developments on alcarin.com, see the Announcements forum at http://www.alcarin.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9

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COLUMN: MEN WITH A MISSION
A column by Wouter vd Zandschulp; wouter@alcarin.com

"Secrets of rpg-ing"

Like for instance the Templars, rpg-ing also is a very secret kind of society. None seems to have a clue what goes on inside such a group from the outside. So, of course, one would go on and speculate what the use is of such a secret group.
Wild speculations could lead to the thought that a rpg-group consists of the new version of the ancient society in favor of people drinking freshly squished orange juice. For all they know, rpg-ers could be promoting this message in peoples heads all the time, talking about new strategies on all rpg-nights.
Wandering out of their houses at night, secretly making billboards in promotion of freshly squished orange juice.
Secretly greeting each other with the code word. Secretly going into factories at night to demolish the machines that make orange juice which is not freshly squished.
Of course, the big corporations who want to sell such orange juice, manufactured cheap and made taste bad, would do anything to keep they're license. No wonder the organisation had to go secret. World wide they had to adapt to make believe they played some sort of game, all as a cover. Books for this cover where print from the secret head organisation in America. TSR, in reality meaning The Stuff for Real, was actually founded a long, long time ago by one man who sold freshly squished orange juice, secretly taking revenge on the horrible things the big corporations did to him to take him out of business.
Secretly he is collecting more and more oranges, while preparing the world domination with help of his loyal helpers, all the people who pretend to play this weird 'game'.

The cover seems shaky. Explaining something unexplainable should make people curious. Luckily, people seem to ignore and avoid talk about this. The whole cover-up by rpg-ers, pretending they are geeky people who will start talk for hours about numbers and terms you will not be able to understand, works like a charm.

Even now, today, when someone wanted to ask me about rpg another person quickly made sure I would not start talking about this at all and even made this to be known as 'The Subject We do not Talk About'.

And so it comes so far I can even openly tell the truth in this here column. After all, who then role-players would ever read a column from a fantasy & roleplaying site mailing letter?

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Well, that's it for this month's newsletter. I hope you enjoyed it.
Lord Gildor
"May the stars guide you on your journeys"
http://www.alcarin.com

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