On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:25:48 -0600
"Richard Falken -> August Abolins" <0@115.135.1> wrote:

Dragonlance novels existed to get you to buy Dragonlance gamming material and
to play D&D.

We don't really have that anymore. We have people or orgs that are already popular publish books as an extra source of income instead.

The above is the last message I see posted here. Is this area still getting noticed?

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Re: Re: book: novelist as a vocation"
By: August Abolins to Richard Falken on Tue Jun 09 2026 03:54 pm

We don't really have that anymore. We have people or orgs that are already popular publish books as an extra source of income instead.

The above is the last message I see posted here. Is this area still getting noticed?

Thanks for pinging me heh.

I get the messaes here no problem, so I suppose the group is just dormant.


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On 09 Jun. 2026 10:47, you wrote to August:

Thanks for pinging me heh.

I get the messaes here no problem, so I suppose the group is just dormant.

John Dovey (who set up this echo) hasnt revisited this place for quite some time. This one was intended for RPG writing discussions which are quite specific, and possibly a small genre.

A popular rpg-style in my shop is the Dungeon Crawler series by Carl Matt Dinniman. The hardbacks have a funny "extra" clue/title under the dust jacket.

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Re: Re: book: novelist as a vocation"
By: August Abolins to Richard Falken on Tue Jun 09 2026 07:08 pm

A popular rpg-style in my shop is the Dungeon Crawler series by Carl Matt Dinniman. The hardbacks have a funny "extra" clue/title under the dust jacket.

I suppose it is not related to Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, isn't it?

Ed Greenwood used to write a lot of stuff that felt very "dungeon crawl" but I could never stomach his books.


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On 09 Jun. 2026 10:47, you wrote to August:

Thanks for pinging me heh.
I get the messaes here no problem, so I suppose the group is just dormant.

John Dovey (who set up this echo) hasnt revisited this place for quite some time. This one was intended for RPG writing discussions which are quite specific, and possibly a small genre.
A popular rpg-style in my shop is the Dungeon Crawler series by Carl Matt Dinniman. The hardbacks have a funny "extra" clue/title under the dust jacket.
.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is precisely why I started this group. It's the major breakout from the online-only website base that this genre is primarily available in.

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On 09 Jun. 2026 10:47, you wrote to August:

Thanks for pinging me heh.
I get the messaes here no problem, so I suppose the group is just dormant.

John Dovey (who set up this echo) hasnt revisited this place for quite some time. This one was intended for RPG writing discussions which are quite specific, and possibly a small genre.
A popular rpg-style in my shop is the Dungeon Crawler series by Carl Matt Dinniman. The hardbacks have a funny "extra" clue/title under the dust jacket.
.

Isn't it strange that the most on-topic discussion here is brought about because of a thread to possibly remove the group?

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John Dovey (Photography) wrote to August Abolins <=-

On 09 Jun. 2026 10:47, you wrote to August:

Thanks for pinging me heh.
I get the messaes here no problem, so I suppose the group is just dormant.

John Dovey (who set up this echo) hasnt revisited this place for quite

some

time. This one was intended for RPG writing discussions which are
quite specific, and possibly a small genre.

A popular rpg-style in my shop is the Dungeon Crawler series by Carl Matt

D

inniman. The hardbacks have a funny "extra" clue/title under the dust jacket.

.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is precisely why I started this group. It's the major breakout from the online-only website base that this genre is primarily available in.

So why did you disappear and abandon "your" group?



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John Dovey (Photography) wrote to August Abolins <=-

On 09 Jun. 2026 10:47, you wrote to August:

dormant.

John Dovey (who set up this echo) hasnt revisited this place for quite

some

time. This one was intended for RPG writing discussions which are
quite specific, and possibly a small genre.

A popular rpg-style in my shop is the Dungeon Crawler series by Carl Matt

D

inniman. The hardbacks have a funny "extra" clue/title under the dust
jacket.

.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is precisely why I started this group. It's the
major breakout from the online-only website base that this genre is
primarily available in.

So why did you disappear and abandon "your" group?
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Because, in no particular order, I've gotten seperated and busy with a divorce, moved countries, spent a year prospecting for diamonds in Lesotho, spent almost a year starting a cannabis farm outside Johannesburg, had two heart attacks and had a pacemaker installed, gotten a young girlfriend and various other things. Aka "Life happened"

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John Dovey (Photography) wrote to Dan Clough <=-

So why did you disappear and abandon "your" group?

Because, in no particular order, I've gotten seperated and busy with a divorce, moved countries, spent a year prospecting for diamonds in Lesotho, spent almost a year starting a cannabis farm outside Johannesburg, had two heart attacks and had a pacemaker installed,
gotten a young girlfriend and various other things. Aka "Life happened"

Wow, pretty good reasons, I guess. Thanks for the reply.



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Hello John Dovey [[Photography]]!

** On Friday 12.06.26 - 16:24, John Dovey [[Photography]] wrote:

[...] in no particular order..

[...] Aka "Life happened"

Indeed. You were crawling your own dungeons.

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On June 12 2026, John Dovey (Photography) wrote:

Isn't it strange that the most on-topic discussion here is brought
about because of a thread to possibly remove the group?

No threat of removal. FTN systems can choose to retain or drop an echo. If you mean
the ELIST listing, that's not critical.

I just decided to "poke the bear" after a long period to test distribution.

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a year starting a cannabis farm outside Johannesburg, had two heart attacks and
had a pacemaker installed, gotten a young girlfriend and various other things.

Be careful, those young girlfriends can be difficult on hearts and
pacemakers! :D

Glad you are better.


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On June 12 2026, John Dovey (Photography) wrote:

Isn't it strange that the most on-topic discussion here is brought
about because of a thread to possibly remove the group?

No threat of removal. FTN systems can choose to retain or drop an echo. If you mean
the ELIST listing, that's not critical.
I just decided to "poke the bear" after a long period to test distribution.

https://brorabbit.g0x.ru/pic/6a2c5d49.jpg


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Hello John Dovey [[Photography]]!
** On Friday 12.06.26 - 16:24, John Dovey [[Photography]] wrote:

[...] in no particular order..

[...] Aka "Life happened"

Indeed. You were crawling your own dungeons.
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Yeah, and as anyone who knows about South Africa knows, farming here is not for the faint of heart..

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Hello John Dovey [[Photography]]!

** On Friday 12.06.26 - 05:13, John Dovey [[Photography]] wrote to August Abolins:

Dungeon Crawler Carl is precisely why I started this group. It's the major breakout from the online-only website base that this genre is primarily available in.

The books series seems to be gaining popularity (at my shop).

Deluxe editions are listing at $84ea CDN.

And recently, the graphics novel versions are coming out.


The title for book 3 might seem controversial, or a throwback to "the" book the title refers to.


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