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(Originally posted by Sorcerer)

Helping Support Sorcerer's Place

If you are a regular at out message boards you have probably noticed various Chips & Bits banners. I have teamed up with this gaming superstore to be able to bring you some titles that are continuously out of stock at Amazon, but also because most (if not all) of the games there are cheaper. Our Games store has been updated with links through which you can buy games at Chips & Bits and help support Sorcerer's Place since we get a small commission for every purchase.

Two new titles were added to the Games store with this update - Icewind Dale II (pre-order) and Forgotten Realms Archives Silver Edition. Various other out of stock items are now available at Chips & Bits. For more info on how you can buy games not listed in our store and still earn us a commission, click on the "help support SP" link on the left side of all SP pages.

I have also placed the code for regular pop-ups on all pages of Sorcerer's Place. If you have cookies enabled, you will only get two of them every 6 hours, no matter which page you visit. I hope that I am not asking too much when I request that you should let them load fully before closing them down. You are not required to click on them, but they do have to load fully otherwise we get paid nothing.

After going through numerous other options for regular banner advertising, I have found that they are either

a) too intrusive (want to install software on your computer, spawn pop-ups)
b) inappropriate (adult content)
c) poorly manageable (I have no control over what is displayed) or
d) pay so little that it is not worth the effort to place them in the html

Therefore I decided to leave the Amazon banners up for the time being. In time I might replace them with some others (like Chips & Bits ones), but as far as I'm concerned, regular banner advertising is DEAD. Just so you know, these Amazon banners do not earn me anything unless you buy something through them. I am merely leaving them there because they're really non-intrusive and in case someone might actually find them useful and do a good thing for SP and buy through them.

Ok, now on to more cheerful matters.

Subsection Updates -> Fantasy Books

I have been checking & fixing the links all over the subsections in the Fantasy Books subsection. There aren't many new things, except on Page 2 of the Dragonlance subsection (Dragons of a Vanished Moon, book 3 of the War of Souls trilogy is now available for pre-order) and in the 3rd Edition D&D Books subsection where a number of new manuals & handbooks (Faiths & Pantheons, Silver Marches, Stronghold Builder's Guidebook, Epic Level Handbook, Deities & Demigods and Book of Challenges) are now available for pre-order at all 3 Amazon stores SP is affiliated with.

Subsection Updates - Games -> Baldur's Gate

After probably a couple of years, we have a new walkthrough in the Walkthroughs & Guides subsection. It is a very detailed one and covers both the game and the expansion. If you need any help with the game, be sure to give it a try.

Subsection Updates - Games -> Baldur's Gate 2

Like in the subsection above, we have a new walkthrough (by the same author) here in the Walkthroughs & Guides subsection as well. It also covers both the game and the expansion. Very nice.

Thanks to our regular contributor, the Suburban Jub Collective, we also have an exclusive Epic Endeavours walkthrough in the same subsection. (If you haven't heard of this partial conversion of the game yet, peek in the TeamBG subsection for the link.)

Extremist, our resident bugsquasher, has put together v0.3 of his FixPack. It fixes a small sea of bugs left over after the final SoA patch, so if you're having problems with your game, be sure to see if it can help you. Get it from Page 2 of the Editors, Hacks & Custom Characters subsection.

Subsection Updates - Games -> Icewind Dale 2

In the Walkthroughs & Guides subsection, the IWD2 Info Compilation has been updated and split in two parts. The new info on page 2 is a listing of bard spells.

Those of you planning on playing a cleric (or having one in your party), that is, mostly all of you, will be interested in the Clerics Info Compilation I've put together. It contains descriptions of each of the clerics of the faiths present in the game and a list of the cleric domain spells. You can find this in the same subsection as the above.

Subsection Updates - Games -> Neverwinter Nights

In the Miscellanea subsection, you can find two new additions. The first is the log of the recent chat with Jeremy Soule that I edited (thanks to BTA for the log!), and the second is a big list of movies & trailers that have been officially released or otherwise obtained thus far.

Just for you, I've watched each one of them closely and provided descriptions of each on the page. I also put down the format, length and size of each of them. Be sure to load the page and see if you've missed any of them.

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