Wizards Uploads PDF of Old Editions

Now via DriveThruStuff (formerly DriveThruRPG), Wizards is putting up old D&D content for a small fee! Check it out here.

Two Beautiful Dreamlands Maps

While browsing, I found two beautiful maps of H. P. Lovecraft's dreamlands.

The first is a photoshop of an existing Dreamlands map, looking to be from the Chaosium Dreamlands book, by DeviantArt user Danial79:

The second is entirely more interesting to me, as a crafted-from scratch illustration capturing much more of the flavor of the Dreamlands, crafted by Jason Thompson (Mockman):

Crowdsourcing Development

Among the challenges of crowdfunding, developers should not only be managing your projects within financial constraints, but on manpower constraints. The recent Kingdom Death Kickstarter seemed largely a one-man project, for example, but by enlisting assistants for individual sculptures, he managed to create a wide and varied model range. One of the creative ways Brian Fargo has managed the Wasteland 2 project was by outsourcing the building of assets.

Digital Media

One of the pitfalls of modern television programming is the complete ignorance of the internet at the hands of most providers.  With a few networks excepted, some of the most popular shows on television are simply not available on the internet legally, or if they are, it's at significant restriction.  HBO is particularly terrible at programming in a digital age, but even the Big Bang Theory is unavailable.  It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before media companies noticed YouTube, Vimeo, and the World Wide Web as a distribution platform.