http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/ A moderated announcement and discussion forum for fans of Cumberland Games fonts and eBooks. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:03 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/257 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/257 Cumberland's most successful stress-font just got improvified. The current Blue Room update says it all: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/blueroom.htm Wed, 27 May 2009 08:22:07 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/256 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/256 With apologies for the multi-list posting. This one goes everywhere! == Rogue Panel Program: A-Kon 20, S. John Ross Okay, folks, the time is nigh for A-Kon in Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:41:27 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/255 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/255 'Cause it's been awhile since I've done a stressed font :) http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 05:49:31 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/254 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/254 Hiya, folks! I've got two changes to announce, followed by Stuff. === TWO CHANGES First, the Cumberland Fontworks pages have just undergone a _major_ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:57:05 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/253 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/253 Up tonight on the Free Stuff of the Moment Page: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Another font in my growing library of goofy hand-drawn Roman fonts Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:10:12 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/252 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/252 As per usual, I've been avoiding doing the font-spotting posts unless something interesting comes up ... right now Cumberland fonts are plastered all over Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:26:57 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/251 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/251 In reference to my earlier post: HyperBooks is officially closed (as of a few weeks ago), but Terry is okay. So, on balance, a far better scenario than I had Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:47:36 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/250 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/250 A couple of weeks ago, a customer emailed reporting trouble ordering from HyperBooks ... the trouble being, HyperBooks wasn't there. I assumed it was just a Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:26:37 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/249 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/249 Released! http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/toask.htm Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:10:47 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/248 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/248 Okay, it's probably not wise for me to start getting Encounter Critical confused with SPARKS: Justice City, but the good news is that I've got a jam-packed and Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:09:19 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/247 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/247 The next release for Encounter Critical (mid-December if all goes well) is an old-school text adventure (z-machine format) plucked from an alternate 1979, Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:38:41 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/246 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/246 The "Ham House" text-adventure micro-game will likely fall off the Free Stuff of the Moment page soon, so I did one last update to the file. This new version Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:57:31 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/245 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/245 The PDF I call "Spider Meat" is a hybrid article/extended adventure seed for use with Uresia: Grave of Heaven, but it can be easily adapted to any fantasy game Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:07:52 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/244 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/244 It's been a couple of years since I posted the first Heirany font, "Heirany Bold-Marker," and it's much leaner sibling is now on the Free Stuff of the Moment Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:55:13 GMT S. John Ross http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/243 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CGnD/message/243 PayPal and direct (postal) ordering are once again available. Hello from Denver!