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It has been a busy  half a year for the Moonshae's server  Lots of new content and areas added ,  Currently  DM'd games available every saturday night   alternating between  lower level content for levels 1-5 and  a Higher level content game that all levels are welcome to join in.  

 Both Baldurs Gate and The Silver Marches are still up and running well.  Look for possible DM'd games in TSM  come August or September . . .

  In recent months  we have also seen the resurrection of  both the  old  NWN1  Waterdeep and Daggerford servers  thanks to  Ayergo and  Stormbringer.   Check the forums for those to find out how to get connected and DM times

Midsummer Festival -- AnalogKid is running a Midsummer Festival on our Moonshaes server, running until July 19th
http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51529

DM Events -- still many events running, though only a couple traditional campaigns.
Adanu has regular DMed sessions on Western Heartlands:
http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=354&t=49631
Wynna is running a university-themed campaign on The Silver Marches:
http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=48957

shad0wfax and Mick remain common sights on Baldur's Gate, but they haven't posted any formal schedules.

ACR Update -- we've updated our core ruleset again. Our builders have gotten more tools for building static quests, and our loot bags now adjust their contents to the looting party.

A brief rundown of what's been up the last month:

TA Election -- another election came and went, with Zelknolf running uncontested and being confirmed for the next six months.

DMA Rule Changes -- some words on how our DM team will be handling some things posted here: http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=51468

After refinement and community discussion, we have three big changes to be aware of:

• A DM Team does not have to ask for a PC biography for that biography to be worth experience, but the team still has to accept it.
• Players may have more than one "Exceptional" PC (such as genasi, drow, favored soul, etc) as long as they get approval from the HDMs where they play.
• ALFA no longer holds a community-wide policy for "Red Lighting" DMs; HDMs remain responsible for the content of their servers and the behavior of their teams, and any problems with DM team members are either simply discussed with that DM or escalated to the HDM.

DM Sessions -- Mick's haunting in the Elfsong tavern reached a conclusion this month, but we still have events running on all of our servers.
Xanthea has a high-level event currently being scheduled for use on Moonshaes: http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=51412
AnalogKid has regular DMed sessions on Moonshaes:
http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=51422
Adanu has regular DMed sessions on Western Heartlands:
http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=354&t=49631
Wynna is running a university-themed event on The Silver Marches:
http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=292&t=51467
shad0wfax has recently come out of hibernation on Baldur's Gate, and the salmon will have a hard swim upstream, though he's posted no events yet. Mick's banshee plot is recently concluded on Baldur's Gate, with no extra event yet announced.

ACR Update -- with all of the new activity we've been seeing on our servers, the tech office has been focused primarily on performance fixes. But that's not all we've done-- in addition to the servers being faster...

• The visuals on our traps are upgraded, with rays, lightning bolts, shooting darts, and magical explosions added to give the proper impact to our more-spectacular traps.
• We've made good on our promise to reward D&D-sized parties, and combat XP is now the most per character with groups of four to six players.
• Persistent hit points and offline resting now cooperate with magic items that change your constitution score.

The things! They keep happening! Time is terribly frustrating like that, and we poor mortals are stuck trying to keep up!

DMA Election -- Castano has opted to not run for another term as DMA, and the newly-elected DMA is Boombrakh!

DM Events -- kmj's events are on hiatus while the player group goes through some reorganization, but still plenty of events to attend. Mick has taken up a post as DM on Baldur's Gate and has been remarkably active, with many events for mid-to-low-level PCs. Things also seem to be picking up for AnalogKid's events on Moonshaes, and we even spotted the fabled Wynna on TSM once or twice.

ACR Update -- we once again have updated our core ruleset, mostly with fixes but also to support our next bulletpoint. The details can be found here:
http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51401

Random Dungeons -- our first steps into randomly-generated dungeons have gone live on Baldur's Gate. They're still very basic, and only span a couple areas at low CR, but interested players can look for the Silver Owl company in Ruqel for the first couple glimpses into what will surely grow into the settings for many events and quests to come.

Greengrass -- Greengrass is concretely scheduled now, and will be a number of events running from May 1st U.S. evenings through May 3rd. Sparring, archery, mage duels, pie eating, song and poetry-- for prizes. Details can be found here:
http://www.alandfaraway.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51402

Seems there are many irons in many fires the last month, but unfortunately we didn't shoe many horses for it. Work continues on Greengrass, random dungeons, an ACR release, and video tutorials.

IA Election -- a formality as always, we held elections for Infra Admin. FoamBats4All stood uncontested and was confirmed for another six months.