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Karsiss posted this to the list:

If you have not joined RiftMUSH yet, now is your best chance to join and get involved fast.

The Crydee Festival is set for December 6th at 9pm EST. This is an open event for ALL PLAYERS (old and new) to join and have fun.

This is YOUR CHANCE to get involved in plots and events that will occur during this evening. There are a number of planned events that will happen and you could become involved!

If your a new player, there are may positions you can play. Examples are:
- Duke or Princess's man/woman. (Soldier, Advisor, Servant, etc)
- City Watchman (The Police of Crydee)
- Merchant
- Business person
- Mercenary
- Street Bum
- An Employee of another player
- and much much more.

You can connect to RiftMUSH at pug.riftwar.com 4202

If you do not have a Mush Client, you can obtain one at: http://homepages.together.net/~shae//simple.html

Hope to see you there!

The URL listed above does actually have two slashes in it, that is not a misprint. If you want to know more about RiftMUSH, check out its Home Page.

Continuing the trend towards little blurbs, the Vault Network recently posted this:

Return to Krondor (Sierra) - Almost four years after the original Betrayal at Krondor arrived on store shelves, and a change in publishers, the sequel is finally here. Sporting an entirely new 3D engine and a blend between adventure and role-playing, fans of author Raymond E. Feist's work should find a whole new world to explore as they seek to uncover the mystery surrounding the Tear of the Gods.

Gamer's Alliance has posted a review of RtK. They gave it a 80%.

Buying or passing on this game is a tough call. If you're not really into the whole RPG scene I suggest letting this one go by. On the other hand, if you dig roleplaying games or anything remotely involved with Feist's work give Return to Krondor a try.

Games of Diverse Strategy has posted a quick take of RtK, or the first chapter at least:

So, with a bumpy development cycle, and a company taking over another companies work, I wasn't expecting much from this version of Krondor. I figured it would be a bust, and Sierra would concentrate on the next installment.

Luckily, I was wrong. This doesn't have the feel of a game designed by two different teams, as I thought it would have. The game mechanics flow nicely, and work very well. Allow me to explain...

However, the game was not really produced by two different teams. 7th Level did some very basic design work before PyroTechnix took over development two years ago, and Sierra bought PyroTechnix, not just the RtK code, so the team remained the same during the real development time.

Since Ray announced that the Darkwar Saga would take place in the Eastern Kingdom's of the upper half of Triagia, many people have wanted to know more about their social and political structure. Ray offered this tidbit recently:

There are roughly fifteen areas, and truly only two 'Kingdoms,' while the rest are 'Duchy of. . .' Or 'Land of the . . . ' and there's a large disputed area.

And when asked about the role of the Conclave of the Shadows in the upcoming novels, he gave up a little more info:

Indirectly.Because it's a 'background' sort of business now. The next series will feature just about all new characters, with a few familiar faces as minor/background characters. It's also going to take place mostly in the Eastern Kingdoms, with only a few journeys to the Kingdom itself.

List regulars have heard Ray say for the last couple years that he wants to write some non-Midkemia books. Here are two plot ideas he offered recently:

Two, actually:

1) Ceasar doesn't die, but recovers from his attack and is named dictator of Rome, and when he finally dies of old age, the people restore the Republic. The Crusades reaches America.
That's just some background stuff.
The story is about 'a boy and his quest for truth.' <G>

2) Aliens attack Earth after a few years of subterfuge and slowly are conquering earth. The US realizes that if we'd had early warning and some extra firepower we could have kicked them off the planet (we have big numbers, they have technology), so in a desperate attempt to change history they run a never tried before time travel operation and send an experimental aircraft carrier and it's battle group back in time.

They screw up and find themselves off the coast of Central America in 1456. Mostly I wanted to have a scene where Columbus gets off the boat to be greeted by guys with automatic weapons who say, 'Gentlemen, customs and immigration are over there; have you anything to declare?'

While it would have the look of a tech novel, it would really be about social engineering, because quickly the Admiral leading the battle group realizes his mission has changed; he no longer is going to fight a battle, he's going to change history and build a world order so that when the aliens show up, humanity can kick their ass.

Who knows, I might get around to writing one of these some day.

In later posts, he continued the idea of the second plot.