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John Nephew
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President of Atlas Games®, TTRPG professional since 1986, amateur woodworker, would-be recycler of plastics. Duluth, Minnesota.

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@fuzzface Amazing
December 13, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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Ack, I discovered I had not set the coupon right on Munchkin Gloom. So if you were wanting that, it's now actually showing up at $10 in carts the way it is supposed to! ($19.95 off MSRP!) #blackfriday #tabletop #gloom
November 29, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Did you miss the $5 deal on Grand Tribunal, the Ars Magica board game, that ran during the Definitive Edition campaign? It's back...only until midnight tonight, central US time! www.atlas-games.com/grandtribunal
Grand Tribunal
A board game of magical invention
www.atlas-games.com
November 29, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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In the TSR envelope with the marked up dot matrix manuscript and Barbara's notes is this page of my ideas for turning it into Ars Magica, including the note on the bottom "Publish by myself?" -- so this must have been before I even thought to launch Atlas Games.
OCR can't handle my crappy handwriting. It talks about making King Lothar's Gold into an Ars Magica tournament adventure.
November 25, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Ack, failed to thread this with the ealier stuff.
November 25, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Overdoing the cultural and historical bits is absolutely my brand.
November 25, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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20-year-old me was very concerned about how to deal with gender and pronouns in writing, and had net yet been liberated by understanding of the singular "they."
Gender Issues First off, masculine pronouns in this adventure are, for convenience, meant ambiguously. In other words, just because we use "he" in a sentence, we don't mean that it doesn't apply to females. This is just to make the text more readable, to avoid the clumsiness of using phrases like "he or she" or "his or her" so frequently. Tho issues of gender and sexism appear more directly in this adventure, however, and are part of the story's theme. The player characters prepared for this adventure are all males. The was dictated by the setting - simply put, women are not given a fair chance in this time and place. There are of course those who defy the implicit rules of society (such as Fredegund, the powerful and defiant queen; or Clotild, who led a nunnery in revolt), and make their visible mark on history. One such person who appears in this adventure is the sorceress, Lucretia. She is marked as both independent-minded, and a practitioner of magic. In time magic and the Order of Hermes will provide an opportunity for women to realize their potential as equals, even before the rest of society permits it, but in this place Lucretia faces a difficult struggle. Players in this adventure should be subtly made aware of the sexism that pervades their characters' society (and even their own today). When they meet the sorceress, they will run head-on into a woman who refuses to accept "her place"
November 25, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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Summary: Our original plan and normal procedure is to print enough at once for both a crowdfunding campaign's fulfillment and a year or two of sales into distribution. If tariffs are imposed, I am confident we can still full the #ArsMagica Definitive campaign, but we may cancel retail release after.
November 10, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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I made a meme
A screen of the Julia Roberts-narrated ad about votes being secret, overlaid with the text: "When you remember that the Code of Hermes forbids scrying in the ballot booth"
November 5, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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After you vote, don't forget to back Ars Magica Definitive Edition!

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/atlas-games/ars-magica-5th-edition-definitive
November 5, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Good call, it seems.

Total sales of the game in 2023: 4 copies
Total sales in 2024 through Sept. 30th: 3 copies

Total copies in this quarter, since unlocking the stretch goal special: 170 copies
November 4, 2024 at 5:20 PM