Dystemporalia

After two years of not posting anything here on Dystemporalia, I think it’s probably time to shut the site down. The site takes up a reasonable chunk of disk space, and with Anachronism pretty much dormant at this point and no longer a part of my regular gaming regimen, I don’t see much reason to keep a non-growing site up.

The title of the post really says it all. The Korean and Norse cultures from Set 9 should now be fully functional in the Encyclopaedia Anachronistica and Online Playmat. The Pirates should be joining them soon, followed by recent promos missing from these resources.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything to Dystemporalia or updated Dystemporalia resources. This past spring semester has been pretty busy for me, and truly, life will continue to be quite busy for me offline. I’ve also been playing more role-playing and miniatures games than Anachronism since TriKing petered out.

However, I’m pleased to announce that the Set 9 Italian culture should now be fully functional in the Encyclopaedia Anachronistica and Online Playmat. I’ll try to get the other Set 9 cultures online in these resources soon. I apologize for the big delay. Thank you for your patience!

In the last month or so, I’ve gotten several e-mails inquiring where to find an Anachronism rulebook online. It seems that a number of people are picking up Anachronism packs at bargain-basement prices, but are having trouble finding starter sets. To help these folks out, I’ve scanned and uploaded the Set 7 Rulebook.

Well, folks, I worked real hard and got the current Set 8 promos into the Encyclopaedia Anachronistica and Online Playmat. Enjoy!

Hello, history buffs! Between an international trip, an overly busy fall semester, and TriKing’s dissolution, I’ve been remiss about keeping Dystemporalia up-to-date. But never fear! TriKing has had to shut its doors for the nonce, but Anachronism is going strong, and Dystemporalia will be right there with it.

If you’re looking for Anachronism discussion, point your browser to the Coliseum. With the demise of the TriKing forums, the Coliseum has stepped up to provide Anachronism players a place to discuss our beloved game.

The Coliseum also serves as the “home base” for the new Players’ Committee, a small group of dedicated players and former designers who are working to keep Anachronism growing. Many of you will already know that lead designer Steve McLaughlin has worked with online personality Mindbomber and others to put out a printable Oracle for Set 8. The card functions for Sets 8 and 9 were fully (or nearly so) designed before TriKing had to cease production, so these will go out to the Anachronism community as virtual products. Thereafter, the Players’ Committee will continue to try to generate new cards to keep Anachronism going.

In local news, I’ve finally upgraded Dystemporalia to the latest version of WordPress, as well as adding all of the Set 8 cards to the Encyclopaedia Anachronistica and the Online Playmat. I’m afraid that a few Set 8 promos, and all Set 8 promos, are still missing from the database, but I plan to provide those as soon as possible. By the way, if you’d prefer a different sort of online play experience, visit the Coliseum and find the threads related to the Apprentice and Lackey software programs, for which various players have created Anachronism plug-ins.

I’m sure that anyone likely to read this blog already knows that no more Anachronism sets will be shipping, at least for the current incarnation of the game. After seven sets, it seems that TriKing just doesn’t have the financial means to continue publishing physical cards. However, intrepid game designer Shteevie McLaughlin has been releasing the gameplay design aspects of Set 8 on the TriKing forums, and plans to do so for Set 9 as well. There’s been a little bit of talk on the forums about forming a “Players Committee” to continue pushing new ideas into the card pool. I think that’s a great idea. There’s also talk of Michael Brown trying to reorganize and put things in place for a second edition of Anachronism, which would be splendid if the business model were more self-sustaining than the first one apparently was. If a “Players Committee” is formed, I’ll support them whole-heartedly (unless they do something really stupid); if Anachronism 2E does get a life, I’ll be there.

Attention, Macintosh users! MacUpdate is currently running a promotion in which you can purchase over $400 worth of software for $49.99. The bundle includes TechTool, which normally costs $99.99 by itself, as well as the Cocktail system utility, GarageSale for managing your eBay selling, and sound utilities ProfCast and Amadeus, as well as a handful of other apps. In all, the bundle includes eleven different applications.

If you think you might be interested in this bundle, send me an e-mail so that I can send you an “invitation” to buy the bundle. You don’t actually need an invitation, but using the invitations allows us both to get a free membership to MacUpdate, which includes some nifty features for notifying Mac users of updates and new software. If you’re not interested in the free MacUpdate membership but you want the software, go straight to the promo page.

Act fast; MacUpdate puts these things on a time limit, and this offer expires sometime tomorrow.

Yeah, I have a separate gaming blog for D&D and games other than Anachronism, but this might be of interest to Anachronism players as well.

The April 15 update of The Analects is now available for download. This edition adds several clarifications requested by players, and incorporates many more card specifics from the Question Confirmation Thread as well as all QCT answers up through April 15.