PayPal and direct (postal) ordering are once again available. Hello from Denver!...
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ghalev
Jul 20, 2007 9:07 pm
It's been a couple of years since I posted the first Heirany font, "Heirany Bold-Marker," and it's much leaner sibling is now on the Free Stuff of the Moment...
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ghalev
Aug 13, 2007 4:57 am
The PDF I call "Spider Meat" is a hybrid article/extended adventure seed for use with Uresia: Grave of Heaven, but it can be easily adapted to any fantasy game...
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ghalev
Aug 28, 2007 5:38 am
The "Ham House" text-adventure micro-game will likely fall off the Free Stuff of the Moment page soon, so I did one last update to the file. This new version...
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ghalev
Nov 20, 2007 7:09 pm
The next release for Encounter Critical (mid-December if all goes well) is an old-school text adventure (z-machine format) plucked from an alternate 1979,...
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ghalev
Nov 20, 2007 11:10 pm
Okay, it's probably not wise for me to start getting Encounter Critical confused with SPARKS: Justice City, but the good news is that I've got a jam-packed and...
A couple of weeks ago, a customer emailed reporting trouble ordering from HyperBooks ... the trouble being, HyperBooks wasn't there. I assumed it was just a...
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ghalev
Jan 22, 2008 5:26 am
In reference to my earlier post: HyperBooks is officially closed (as of a few weeks ago), but Terry is okay. So, on balance, a far better scenario than I had...
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ghalev
Mar 5, 2008 6:10 am
As per usual, I've been avoiding doing the font-spotting posts unless something interesting comes up ... right now Cumberland fonts are plastered all over...
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ghalev
Mar 27, 2008 3:57 am
Up tonight on the Free Stuff of the Moment Page: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Another font in my growing library of goofy hand-drawn Roman fonts...
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ghalev
May 29, 2008 5:49 am
Hiya, folks! I've got two changes to announce, followed by Stuff. === TWO CHANGES First, the Cumberland Fontworks pages have just undergone a _major_...
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ghalev
Mar 24, 2009 2:41 pm
'Cause it's been awhile since I've done a stressed font :) http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm...
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ghalev
May 27, 2009 8:22 am
With apologies for the multi-list posting. This one goes everywhere! == Rogue Panel Program: A-Kon 20, S. John Ross Okay, folks, the time is nigh for A-Kon in...
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ghalev
Sep 29, 2009 6:15 pm
Cumberland39;s most successful stress-font just got improvified. The current Blue Room update says it all: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/blueroom.htm...
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ghalev
Apr 6, 2010 11:27 pm
Lisa Steele's all-new book, TOWN (companion volume to FIEF, but on the urban side of things) is just about ready for release, but I want to give it another...
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ghalev
Apr 7, 2010 5:37 pm
Many thanks to all those who volunteered for the proofing; yikes! Quite a turnout! I'll select a batch from the volunteers and we'll get started within the...
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ghalev
Apr 16, 2010 8:46 am
The volunteer proofreading round is now over on TOWN: many multi-thanks to those who took the time and (considerable) effort to help out. I had enough...
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iscladoc
May 3, 2010 10:20 pm
Sounds great, SJR: will _Town_ be a .pdf only release, or a Lulu POD release like Fief? Allan....
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ghalev
May 3, 2010 10:29 pm
... Both, eventually. Initially, it will be 100% Cumberland which means (natch) 100% electronic. But after a month or so in its native format and after I'm...
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iscladoc
May 19, 2010 4:32 am
... Excellent news. Thanks. Can you provide some more details about Town itself yet (# of pages, TOC, etc.)? ... I'm looking forward to it. Thanks again! ...
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ghalev
May 19, 2010 5:12 am
... Town is something like 95,000 words, compared to Fief's 51,000 (not counting the index in either case). I've gotten a bit more expert in page layout since...
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ghalev
May 31, 2010 5:49 pm
Cumberland Games is proud to announce that Lisa Steele's groovy new medieval sourcebook, Town, is now available: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/fief.htm I know;...
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ghalev
Jun 14, 2010 11:38 pm
I got the proof back from Lulu and it looks 100% groovy with no techy snags, so unofficially (I'll make it official tomorrow and update the webpage, and so on)...
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ghalev
Jul 12, 2010 12:55 pm
New TrueType font up today: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Just another stress-font, but a nice one, I think. Also up: the finished version of the...
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ghalev
Jul 19, 2010 9:54 pm
Okay, so I made the "Merchant Copy" family of fonts to be as 100% realistic as possible for imitating a point-of-sale receipt. That's what it's for, no denying...
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ghalev
Jul 21, 2010 8:46 pm
Town: A City-Dweller39;s Look at 13th to 15th Century Europe Purchase Town: A City-Dweller39;s Look at 13th to 15th Century Europe with 15% off with coupon code...
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ghalev
Aug 9, 2010 3:25 am
http://ogrecave.com/reviews/town.shtml The first review I'm aware of for Town. Groovity....
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ghalev
Aug 20, 2010 8:15 am
http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Normally, if someone calls a font "muddy," that's not a good thing. I'm not 100% sure this case is different, but I...
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ghalev
Aug 29, 2010 11:44 am
Early Call for Blindtest Teams: Risus Fantasy-Historical Worldbook Cumberland39;s first-ever worldbook for Risus: The Anything RPG is well underway, and goes...