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THIS WEEK IN GREYHAWK FANDOM
Issue #4, July 18. 2002
GREYTALK MESSAGEBOARDS?
Yes! Well, sort of. Canonfire! has added a new feature which will let you read and respond to the mailing list via an interface which is, for all intents and purposes, a message board software package. It is our hope that this will satisfy those folks who dislike the mailing list format, while at the same time preserving GreyTalk as the primary forum for discussing the setting. You can also use the new feature just as a message board, and ignore the list completely, because all posts from the list go to the board, and vice versa, the two 'interfaces' are completely integrated.
http://www.canonfire.com/forum
ENWORLD ANNOUNCES 2002 'ENNIES' AWARD NOMINEES
The 'Ennies' are a set of awards given by the community at ENWorld to recognize excellence in the D20 industry. You can see the nominees and vote on the winners at:
http://enworld.org/ennies2002.htm
For those of you wondering why the staff at Canonfire! did not enter the site for consideration, I can only offer this explanation: I/We were under the impression that 'best fan campaign site' referred to just that, unpublished fan based campaign worlds, and not to fan sites like Canonfire! which support published worlds. I was thus _very_ shocked to see a Forgotten Realms based site among the nominees. We can only hope the staff at ENWorld is a bit more clear next year.
PAIZO PUBLISHING INTERVIEW AT GAMING REPORT
GR recently interviewd Johnny Wilson and Lisa Stevens of Paizo Publishing, the company that has purchased the license to publish Dragon, Dungeon and Star Wars Insider magazines from Wizards of the Coast. Of special interest, Lisa confirms her love of the GH setting and teases about possible GH related articles from her in future Living Greyhawk Journal sections of Dragon. Read the Interview at:
http://gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=52
MORTALITY.NET MESSAGE BOARDS
Mortality.net hosts a greyhawk folder in their message boards. You can check out Mortality's forum at:
http://www.mortality.net/board/board.php?FID=47
REALMS OF EVIL MESSAGE BOARDS
RoE hosts a greyhawk folder in their message boards. You can check out RoE's forums at:
http://www.dreadgazebo.com/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.cgi
THE GREYHAWK-L (OFFICIAL) DISCUSSION LIST
You can join the list, or review the archives at:
http://oracle.wizards.com/archives/greyhawk-l.html
THE GREYTALK DISCUSSION LIST
For information on joining the list visit:
http://www.canonfire.com/html/modules.phpop=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfa q=yes&id_cat=2&categories=The+GreyTalk+Mailing+List%3Cp%3E#46
Or, browse the archive at:
http://www.greycitadel.com/greycitadel/greytalk.nsf
LIVING_GREYHAWK DISCUSSION LIST
The list is heavy in RPGA policy and Living Greyhawk specific discussion, so it's not for everyone, but if you participate in the LG campaign, you can find out more about this list at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Living_Greyhawk/
CANONFIRE AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Our featured author is Kirt. Kirt has contributed an excellent series of articles detailing the Knights of the Hart, as well information on Perrenland and Greyhawk's elves that are all well worth reading. You can see all of Kirt's articles, and learn how to contact him at his canonfire member page:
http://www.canonfire.com/html/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&unam e=Kirt
UPCOMING FEATURED CHATS FROM AROUND THE NET
There is life beyond thursday night for the devoted chatters among us. A few of the interesting chat events coming in the weeks ahead are:
ENWorld Celebrity Chats
TWiGF will no longer spotlight events at this chat server. For a listing of future events, please refer to TWiGF Issue 3, in the archive,
http://www.canonfire.com/html/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3
Jim Ward to be interviewed at Mortality Radio Shoutcast
Every other Friday (July 19th is the next one, featuring Jim Ward and the folks from Fast Forward Entertainment) at 8 PM EST Mortality.net hosts a unique chat/webcast hybrid that is worth checking out. The host, Adlon, features industry celebrity interviews and live call-ins from the audience in a fun, freewheeling atmosphere (though, like the Greytalk weekly chat, you might want to put the kiddies to bed first, adult language and topics happen now and then). You'll need an IRC client (like mIRC) to participate, and a audio program, such as winamp, capable of streaming mp3 audio from the net.
IRC: irc.mortality.net port 6667 channel: #mortality
Once you log into the chat, they'll give you the details on connecting your audio program to the streaming media.
Greytalk Weekly Chat
As usual, the Weekly Greytalk chat continues every thursday night at 8 PM EST until dawn (roughly, whenever we call it a night) Come early or come late, there's plenty of Greyhawk discussion with some of the who's who of the Greyhawk Community, as well as friendly banter and some risque humor. Put the kids to bed, and if you're not an old fart like some of us regulars there, check with your parents before logging in. Every thursday night at 8 PM EST
Web Java interface: http://www.psionics.net/chat/java/chat1.html
IRC: chat.psionics.net port 6667 channel #greytalk
GOOGLEHAWK!
A new feature for This Week In Greyhawk Fandom, Googlehawk spotlights an interesting Greyhawk resource from around the internet. I simply enter 'greyhawk' into Google.com's search engine, and randomly pick an interesting result to share.
This week we highlight Wesley Phillips' World of Greyhawk Campaign Setting page. Wesley has an impressive collection of maps and texts that any Greyhawk fan will find useful, as well as a few handy programs to aid a DM. You can visit the site at:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5878/
Well, that's all for this week. See you next thursday with another helping of Greyhawk from around the net.
---TWiGF Footer--- You can view the archive of past issues of this newsletter in the Canonfire site archives
This Week in Greyhawk Fandom is a presentation of Canonfire! (http://www.canonfire.com Greyhawk on the web!) Permission is granted to redistribute this document in unaltered form only, providing this footer is not removed of altered in any way. Copyright 2002 Rich 'chatdemon' Trickey and the Canonfire! Group. ---End Footer---
Issue #4, July 18. 2002
GREYTALK MESSAGEBOARDS?
Yes! Well, sort of. Canonfire! has added a new feature which will let you read and respond to the mailing list via an interface which is, for all intents and purposes, a message board software package. It is our hope that this will satisfy those folks who dislike the mailing list format, while at the same time preserving GreyTalk as the primary forum for discussing the setting. You can also use the new feature just as a message board, and ignore the list completely, because all posts from the list go to the board, and vice versa, the two 'interfaces' are completely integrated.
http://www.canonfire.com/forum
ENWORLD ANNOUNCES 2002 'ENNIES' AWARD NOMINEES
The 'Ennies' are a set of awards given by the community at ENWorld to recognize excellence in the D20 industry. You can see the nominees and vote on the winners at:
http://enworld.org/ennies2002.htm
For those of you wondering why the staff at Canonfire! did not enter the site for consideration, I can only offer this explanation: I/We were under the impression that 'best fan campaign site' referred to just that, unpublished fan based campaign worlds, and not to fan sites like Canonfire! which support published worlds. I was thus _very_ shocked to see a Forgotten Realms based site among the nominees. We can only hope the staff at ENWorld is a bit more clear next year.
PAIZO PUBLISHING INTERVIEW AT GAMING REPORT
GR recently interviewd Johnny Wilson and Lisa Stevens of Paizo Publishing, the company that has purchased the license to publish Dragon, Dungeon and Star Wars Insider magazines from Wizards of the Coast. Of special interest, Lisa confirms her love of the GH setting and teases about possible GH related articles from her in future Living Greyhawk Journal sections of Dragon. Read the Interview at:
http://gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=52
MORTALITY.NET MESSAGE BOARDS
Mortality.net hosts a greyhawk folder in their message boards. You can check out Mortality's forum at:
http://www.mortality.net/board/board.php?FID=47
REALMS OF EVIL MESSAGE BOARDS
RoE hosts a greyhawk folder in their message boards. You can check out RoE's forums at:
http://www.dreadgazebo.com/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.cgi
THE GREYHAWK-L (OFFICIAL) DISCUSSION LIST
You can join the list, or review the archives at:
http://oracle.wizards.com/archives/greyhawk-l.html
THE GREYTALK DISCUSSION LIST
For information on joining the list visit:
http://www.canonfire.com/html/modules.phpop=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfa q=yes&id_cat=2&categories=The+GreyTalk+Mailing+List%3Cp%3E#46
Or, browse the archive at:
http://www.greycitadel.com/greycitadel/greytalk.nsf
LIVING_GREYHAWK DISCUSSION LIST
The list is heavy in RPGA policy and Living Greyhawk specific discussion, so it's not for everyone, but if you participate in the LG campaign, you can find out more about this list at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Living_Greyhawk/
CANONFIRE AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Our featured author is Kirt. Kirt has contributed an excellent series of articles detailing the Knights of the Hart, as well information on Perrenland and Greyhawk's elves that are all well worth reading. You can see all of Kirt's articles, and learn how to contact him at his canonfire member page:
http://www.canonfire.com/html/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&unam e=Kirt
UPCOMING FEATURED CHATS FROM AROUND THE NET
There is life beyond thursday night for the devoted chatters among us. A few of the interesting chat events coming in the weeks ahead are:
ENWorld Celebrity Chats
TWiGF will no longer spotlight events at this chat server. For a listing of future events, please refer to TWiGF Issue 3, in the archive,
http://www.canonfire.com/html/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3
Jim Ward to be interviewed at Mortality Radio Shoutcast
Every other Friday (July 19th is the next one, featuring Jim Ward and the folks from Fast Forward Entertainment) at 8 PM EST Mortality.net hosts a unique chat/webcast hybrid that is worth checking out. The host, Adlon, features industry celebrity interviews and live call-ins from the audience in a fun, freewheeling atmosphere (though, like the Greytalk weekly chat, you might want to put the kiddies to bed first, adult language and topics happen now and then). You'll need an IRC client (like mIRC) to participate, and a audio program, such as winamp, capable of streaming mp3 audio from the net.
IRC: irc.mortality.net port 6667 channel: #mortality
Once you log into the chat, they'll give you the details on connecting your audio program to the streaming media.
Greytalk Weekly Chat
As usual, the Weekly Greytalk chat continues every thursday night at 8 PM EST until dawn (roughly, whenever we call it a night) Come early or come late, there's plenty of Greyhawk discussion with some of the who's who of the Greyhawk Community, as well as friendly banter and some risque humor. Put the kids to bed, and if you're not an old fart like some of us regulars there, check with your parents before logging in. Every thursday night at 8 PM EST
Web Java interface: http://www.psionics.net/chat/java/chat1.html
IRC: chat.psionics.net port 6667 channel #greytalk
GOOGLEHAWK!
A new feature for This Week In Greyhawk Fandom, Googlehawk spotlights an interesting Greyhawk resource from around the internet. I simply enter 'greyhawk' into Google.com's search engine, and randomly pick an interesting result to share.
This week we highlight Wesley Phillips' World of Greyhawk Campaign Setting page. Wesley has an impressive collection of maps and texts that any Greyhawk fan will find useful, as well as a few handy programs to aid a DM. You can visit the site at:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5878/
Well, that's all for this week. See you next thursday with another helping of Greyhawk from around the net.
---TWiGF Footer--- You can view the archive of past issues of this newsletter in the Canonfire site archives
This Week in Greyhawk Fandom is a presentation of Canonfire! (http://www.canonfire.com Greyhawk on the web!) Permission is granted to redistribute this document in unaltered form only, providing this footer is not removed of altered in any way. Copyright 2002 Rich 'chatdemon' Trickey and the Canonfire! Group. ---End Footer---
