September 2015 news (Second part)

Let's see more news which have ocurred in September before the ending of the month:

News

Community Forums of the Wizards of the Coast website will be shut down next October 29th.

The Solidary CD of the Ludo Ergo Sum 2015 it's available in physical format at Atlántica Juegos and Generación X and at Lektu platform in digital format.

Proyecto Arcadia changes its digital shop to Lektu.

Edge Entertainment will publish Eclipse Phase in Spanish.

Holocubierta Ediciones will publish The Strange in Spanish.

Arc Dream Publishing is searching for authors writing adventures for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game and the future patronage of the new edition of the game.

Aventuras Bizarras is searching for collaborators.

Cultos Innombrables and Plenilunio by Nosolorol Ediciones will be published in French by Editions Sans-Détour.

Secretos Enterrados for La Puerta de Ishtar It's already on sale .

Evil Hat has prepared a kit you may download from DriveThruRPG explaining different versions of Fate and its licenses and how to aplly them (for more informnation you also may read http://www.faterpg.com/licensing).

Do you want to know more about Old School in role-playing games? Then you will be interested in reading this post of La barba rolera (written in Spanish).

ADnD Downloads offers the chance of hosting and freely share your creations for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder.

Birth of Hermenaute, a new publishing project in Spain devoted to narrative and essay.

Are you interested in writing stories and like role-playing games? Then pershaps you are interested in collaborate with The RPG Fiction Blog, created by Sarah Newton, writer and author of the role-playing game Mindjammer.

Events

The poster for the coming Jornadas Ayudar Jugando to be held in December 5th and 6th had been made public.

Coming October 17th and 18th will be held the XXII Jornadas Kríticas.

Bastión Rolero convenes the Un dungeon en 1 página 2015 contest.

Premios Rolea 2015 for The Best Role-Playing Game of the Year are convened.

Asociación Odisea convenes the II Jornadas de Rol "Heroes de Grafito" for October 11th 2015.

JESTA 2015 is searching volunteers for the event organization.

Patronages

Zonk-PJ, of Demonio Sonriente, is carrying out the patronage of the printed version of the universal role-playing system CdB Engine at the Verkami platform.

Arc Dream Publishing is carrying out the patronage of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game at Kickstarter.

Modiphius Entertainment is carrying out the patronage of the role-playing game Infinity, based in the figures wargame of the same name by Corvus Bellis, at Kickstarter.

Venger Satanis is carrying out the patronage of the adventure Alpha Blue at Kickstarter.

Luca de Marini is carrying out the patronage of the role-playing game Darkmoor at Kickstarter.

Phillip Lewis is carrying out the patronage of the cooperative role-playing game Wrath of the Autarch at Kickstarter.

Do you need maps and tiles for role-playing games and easy to transport? Then you will find interesting the patronage of Small Dungeon Maps at Kickstarter.

Akerraren Adarrak is creating CC-BY-SA images through his campaign at Patreon.

Liz Bauman is creating #RPGchat at Twitter through her campaign at Patreon.

Emily Care Boss is creating games through her campaign at Patreon.

Culture

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Confirmation of presence of liquid water in Mars. To read more information about it you may read the news piece at Jet Propulsion Laboratory website and at Scientific American.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

More details of Pluto surface are discovered thnks to the New Horizons probe, you may read more data about it at NASA website and at the probe image gallery.

The discover of the chromatic richness of Pluto had led some Internet users to make curious combinations like this by Rob Beschiza of Boing Boing mixing Pluto with the classic painting "A Princess of Mars" by Frank Frazetta

Writer Miquel Barceló publishes Ciencia Ficción. Nueva guía de lectura, the renewed classic continuation of his 1990 work.

Image credit: Anatomics

A Spanish cancer pacient receives a titanium rib cage trasplant created in Australia using 3D printing.

Credit: NASA/CXC/MPE/G.Ponti et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

It seems that the black hole at the center of our galaxy "is awakening" and begins to emit X-rays according to the observation carried out by Nasa Chandra Observatory and those of other agencies.

The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq. Photo © Osama S.M. Amin.

A new fragment of the Table V of the Gilgamesh had been rediscovered.

Downloads

The online magazine Desde el Sótano reaches its 134th edition with the following articles (Note: The magazine is writen in Spanish, it's also available at the Lektu platform):

Editorial

• Editorial: a word from the maker.
• Credits: Those who are behind this (and make it possible).
• Index

Fandom

• Basement Answers: Questions from the fans and the best of our responses.
• The Voice: Conferences, meetings and events for the coming days and months.
• Basement exterior: Section with interesting news from the outside world.

Setting

• Street guide: Dental Clinic «El Cid Campeador». City of Cunia get rich with a new bussiness with hidden parts, as always at Rol Negro.
• General: Galactic directions. How inhabitants of Exo to indicate directions in galaxy's three dimensions.
• General: Press during Peninsular War. An article showing how was the daily press during the conflict.
• Geography: Introduccion to Eriloe geography. The three great geographical dualities of our fantasy setting.

Rules

• Habilities: Cooking. It seems that cooking is also getting fashionable at Cunia city of Rol Negro.
• Habilities: Driving Railways. Now you can include this machines in your gaming sessions of Comandos de Guerra.
• Maneuvers: Saturation fire. Pilots of CEP shoot at their rivals to distract them and favour their squadron budies.
• Fauna: Poadplu. An animal appearing in the basic book of Exo which we know about now and its characteristics.

Equipment

• Equipament: Militia. We continue the equipment articles to create Exo PC and agilize the equipment buying.
• Musical Instruments: pumpkin maraca. Shamans of Pangea use them to imitate animals, but children consider them a funny toy.
• Navies: German Navy (2nd part). An artícle with description and comments German cruisers of Second World War. Information for Comandos.
• Vehicles: Cadillac CT6. A deluxe car which had been seen in Cunia streets, city of Rol Negro.

Events

• Chronology: The Great War, September 1915
• Runes: News of Pangea.
• The Truth: Cunia news of the day. September 2015.
• A.D.E.G. ’70: Peace Day ’70.
• Chronology: September 1810.

Adventures

• Exo: ¡Al Abordaje! A story of encounters against the Genic Empire. Star guests: a lot of strange things...
• CEP: A new scenario of the campaign of Humanitary Help at Liberty Sector
• Rojo y Oro: 1x13 - Cazando al falso agente. Synopsis of a new chapter of the series of 1808.
• Lobo: 1x12 - El clan fantasma. Synopsis of a new chapter of the series of Pangea.

Dyson Logos is creating maps through his Patreon campaign and from time to time liberate them through Dyson's Dodecahedron to be used by others (even commercially).

Do you need a program to create 3D maps of houses and buildings and export them to other formats? Then you surely will like Sweet Home 3D.

And if you need to create maps of countries and continents you surely will founfd interesting the online tool Fantastic Mapper.

CthulhuTech V2: The Shadow War Open Beta is available as a free download from DriveThruRPG.

José Manuel Palacios (SrPanda) has created Epic Panda, music which can be used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license (you can download it from SoundCloud).

Taura: Lands of Alchemy is available under Pay What You Want format from DriveThruRPG.

For Gold & Glory, a retroclone of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition is available as a free download from DriveThruRPG and RPGNow.

Fanzine Rolero offers again the free download of Burnout Berlin!.

If you are interested in fantasy with dark touches you can freely download the Spanish translation of the game Zweïhander.

From Cajón desastre comes the download of the adaptation to the CdB Engine ruleset of the Aliens background.

Nexus role-playing game is available under Pay What You Want format from DriveThruRPG.

Remanam, the game written by Sirio Sesenra for this year's "Rolero de Hierro" competition is already available as a free download.

The second beta of Eclipse.Módulo 0 written by Variable is already available for downloading and check errors and corrections.

Fatebringer, the adaptation of Stormbringer for Fate made by El guardian de los Arcanos is already available for downloading.

If you are interested in nineteenth-century science-fiction you also will be interested in this image collection of the British Library at Flickr.

Akerraren Adarrak shows the first drawings of his patreon campaign as a free download.

Cinema and television

X-Files return to television in January 2016.

The adaptation of the story The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft is being adapted to cinema by director Richard Stanley, you can read more about this redieng the news piece at Blastr, Empire and Entertainment Weekly.

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