News Digest for August 4, 2024

Hello everyone, Darryl here with the summary of this week’s gaming news from EN World.

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EN Publishing News

• For a quick summary of the week’s news, Jessica Hancock will bring you up to speed with EN Live's This Week in TTRPG every Friday.
• Don’t forget, you can keep up with all the week’s gaming news in detail with Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk.
• This week's episode of Not DnD features guest Helena Real to talk about the PbtA narrative game Against the Odds.
• Did you miss out on the Voidrunner's Codex crowdfunding? Late pledges are open now to pick up your copy of the boxed set!
• EN Publishing is crowdfunding High-Level Adventures, a collection of five 5e adventures ranging from 10th to 16th level. The Kickstarter is only live for two weeks so be sure to back soon!
• EN5ider #588 is a new Monstrous Menagerie featuring Alchemical and Arcane Contamination including the gestalt mage, living cauldron, and spell knot.

EN World Feature Columns

• Egg Embry talks about one of the most important but least discussed aspects of game publishing: Graphic Design Layout.
• Lewis Pulsipher's newest Worlds of Design talks about real-world sieges and how to use them in your RPGs.
• Don’t miss out on the newest RPG crowdfunding projects ending soon with Egg Embry’s RPG Crowdfunding News.
• Keep up with all the new print RPG releases with Charles Dunwoody’s RPG Print News.
• Find the big TTRPG sales, bundles, and charity fundraisers with the Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles News.

Tabletop Roleplaying News

• The Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook 2024 edition is coming out. Find out precisely when you can get your hands on a copy.
• Check out a collection of reviews of the Player's Handbook now that the hardcover is in some players' hands and the review embargo is up.
• Find the Table of Contents from the new Player's Handbook.
• Stat blocks are available previewing the 2025 Monster Manual update from the Ancient Green Dragon, the Kuo-Toa, and skeletons.
• Some YouTube creators have been asked to redact or remove videos with Player's Handbook content.
• Project Sigil, the 3D VTT from Wizards of the Coast, revealed at Gen Con plus more updates about the closed beta.
• Gen Con is going on this weekend and is officially sold out.
• Paizo's Keynote Address from Gen Con includes release of Starfinder 2e Playtest Rulebook and updates on other projects and releases.
• A hardcover omnibus edition of the Dragonlance Chronicles series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman with a foreword by Joe Manganiello coming in 2025.
• Free League announces a second edition on the way for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game via Kickstarter.
• Magpie Games announces Fallen London: The Roleplaying Game based on the video game franchise from Failbetter Games.
• The 2024 Diana Jones Award goes to United Paizo Workers, the first labor union in the tabletop roleplaying game industry.

That’s all from me for this week! Don’t forget to support our Patreon to bring you more gaming news content.

 

[Ramaster]

I've found out the "right" way to pronounce "Sigil" very recently and I've been upset ever since. This is like the "Ravnica" fiasco all over again.

 

[Crusadius]

I've found out the "right" way to pronounce "Sigil" very recently and I've been upset ever since. This is like the "Ravnica" fiasco all over again.

Google tells me two: British "si·jl" and American "si·gl". So which way is the "right" way you have just discovered?

 

[Ramaster]

Small background info: I'm not a native English speaker (my mother tongue is Spanish).

I was dead sure that the pronunciation was this one (the British one). And the American one (si-gl) was VERY jarring on my ears.

Bonus background info: In non-english speaking countries, most of the English teachers (this includes schools) will teach British English, despite the fact that (at least for 99% of south Americans) learning American English would be measurably more useful. No shade on British English, tho! It is what it is.

 

[Abstruse]

Google tells me two: British "si·jl" and American "si·gl". So which way is the "right" way you have just discovered?

The City of the Spire at the center of Planescape also known as the City of Doors...is pronounced with a hard G. So "SIG-ell" not "SIJ-ell".

It's unknown if Project Sigil is using that same pronunciation because it's tying itself into the lore of if it's going to use a soft-G or J sound to tie into medieval heraldry and the more common pronunciation.

 

[Ramaster]

Oh, nevermind my first post. "Ravnica" is pronounced the way I originally though. It was the other guy that was wrong (he said rav-NIH-kah which sounds super cursed to me).

 

[Crusadius]

The City of the Spire at the center of Planescape also known as the City of Doors...is pronounced with a hard G. So "SIG-ell" not "SIJ-ell".

It's unknown if Project Sigil is using that same pronunciation because it's tying itself into the lore of if it's going to use a soft-G or J sound to tie into medieval heraldry and the more common pronunciation.

I did take a guess that the second would be correct as the intellectual property was published by a U.S.A. company so I imagine the writers when naming the city would sound it out the American way.