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This is what I've been arguing vehemently on the Steve Jackson Games boards. D&D 4E is a very well-designed game. The fact that the gaming interests of many GURPS gamers don't have much overlap with the design goals of D&D 4E doesn't change that. Each game has its own design goals which it...

I used to bicycle to work, but nowadays I just walk (which takes me 30 minutes as opposed to 15). Of course, in the (German) cities I've lived in, either is a viable option since they tend to be plastered with bicycle lanes, sidewalks, and pedestrian-only areas. If you intend to bicycle, I...

I wanted to try out the Greyhound while I was in the USA, but I didn't get the opportunity. Well, maybe next time. Here in Germany, I tend to take the train for long-distance travel, since probably every city with more than 20,000 people has a passenger train station (and even quite a few...

I haven't been able to work much on Urbis in recent months - unfortunately, my day job has been rather exhausting. But now I have vacation until the end of August (one of the perks of working in Germany - we tend to get 5-6 weeks of paid vacation per year...), and I fully intend to rectify that...

I've noticed several oddities with the EN Groups system: Once you add a forum to a group, the messages posted previously to that group will vanish. I don't know if this is intentional. When you activate the forum, there will initially be no link to the forum from the Group page - until there...

Urbis - A World of Cities is a D&D Fantasy Setting on which I have worked for six years now. More than 140,000 words have been written and published for it. It portrays a fantasy world climbing out of the feudal ages and going through a magical industrial revolution - with all sorts of...

I recently made an icon for situations like this:

That sounds like a reasonable price. The only other product I can compare it with is Pyramid Online, which costs $20 per year and has about 3-4 articles per week (and archives going back to 1998...). I'm not sure if I'm actually going to subscribe to this as well, as I have difficulties...

So, what kind of interesting stuff actually exists in this field? I have little knowledge of it...

All in all, I like the new site - the wiki, the blogs, and the Social Groups are all very useful. The only downside is that the site often seems to break down when I try to load a page - for me, this is much more noticeable than with the old site (since I'm living in Europe, I rarely experience...

The Arcana Wiki has grown rapidly in the last two weeks, now including a historic timeline and a Tropes section based on the TV Tropes Wiki. Furthermore, it now also has its own ENWorld Social Group - which has now grown large enough to have its own forum! I hope to see you there!

As any gamer should know, the real world can be a never-ending source of inspiration for games. When browsing through random Wikipedia entries, I've often thought to myself: "This would make for an awesome adventure idea!". But unfortunately, the Wikipedia does not permit users to add gaming...

It exists for all genres - it is intended to show how real-world material can provide inspiration for almost any game. Take the entry for Transhumanism, for example - it is a decidedly futuristic concept, and yet I have shown how it is relevant for fantasy settings. Note, however, that at least...

This thread is for requesting specific entries - or specific types of entries - for the Arcana Wiki. No guarantees that anyone else will actually do it, but let's hope for the best.

As in July, I am running a contest for the best Arcana Wiki entry within a specific category. The winner will get a gift certificate for RPGNow. Feel free to ask any questions about this contest.

What is your favorite entry in the Arcana Wiki? Obviously, entries you have written yourself don't count!

All good mythologies have continuity errors. Heck, even the Bible has its share...

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The thing is, as long as the setting is still in development, all these things are adjustable. I mean, I started working on Urbis even before D&D 3.5 came out, so for most of its development life it didn't have any eladrins, dragonborn, or tieflings. But now that D&D 4E came out, I've adjusted...

A bunch of cartography tutorials for GIMP and Inkscape can be found here.