Bad DM!

Well this sucks.

Choosing to retire a former foundation of our community was not an easy decision, but we feel that we must adjust our communications structure to reflect where conversations about Wizards of the Coast games are taking place.

Social media has changed significantly over the last ten years, and discussions about games aren’t exclusive to company-hosted forums. The majority of community conversation takes place on third-party websites (such as Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and many other fantastic community-run websites), and it is up to us to evolve alongside our players.

We encourage past and current users to retrieve any information you want to retain from the Community Forums for both Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. The shutdown will occur on October 29, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. PT. We want to provide enough time for our forum members to move their content, and we recognize that given our forum’s vibrant user base and extensive history, this may take time. Any information still on the forums on the cut-off date will be deleted.

Here’s a little random map generator thingy. It’s got lots of settings I don’t understand, but you can just hit “ Random” until you get something you like. You can save the map as a .png!

Upon bringing an image of the lunar surface into focus, he and his fellow scientists saw elaborate basaltic rock formations and fields of blood-red poppy flowers—“the first organic production of nature, in a foreign world, ever revealed to the eyes of men.” Further observations revealed green forests and shimmering blue seas, as well as brown quadrupeds that resembled small bison. The astronomers were also stunned to find blue-tinted unicorns with goat beards and an orb-shaped amphibian that “rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach.”

Day three treated readers to descriptions of even more lunar curiosities including erupting volcanoes and cliffs of quartz crystal. Miniature zebras wandered the green hillsides, and the woods were filled with horned bears and roving herds of reindeer and elk. Most wondrous of all was the so-called “biped beaver,” a tailless, upright-walking creature that carried its young in its arms like a person, used fire and lived in wooden dwellings.

The last three entries dropped the real bombshell. While scanning a grouping of ruby red hills, the scientists were said to have spied a species of winged humanoids that soared through the lunar skies just as easily as they walked on two legs. The article claimed the creatures stood 4 feet tall, had orangutan-like features and “were covered, except on the face, with short and glossy copper-colored hair.” They appeared to live a life of leisure and were observed to engage in conversation—a sure sign of sentience. “We scientifically denominated them a Vespertilio-homo, or man-bat,” the story’s author wrote, “and they are doubtless innocent and happy creatures.”