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-Grenzland 7
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+Heads up!
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-Die kommende Ausgabe ist für 
-April 2026 geplant. 
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-Beiträge, Leserbriefe 
-und Inserate an:
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+Grenzland 7 
+High Level Adventures
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+is scheduled for \fBJanuary 2026\fR!
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-grenzland@betola.de
+Please send any submissions, 
+ads, classifieds, cover art(!) to:
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-.B Einsendeschluss : 
-15. März 2026
+\fCgrenzland@betola.de\fR
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-.B "Gedrucktes Heft bestellen bis" :
+Submission deadline: 
+.B "15. December 2025"
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-31. März 2026
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-.B Und:
-wir brauchen 
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-für Heft 8!
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+Order your copy until:
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+.B "31. December 2025" !
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 After I finished refereeing 
 .I Grenzland 
 (the OD&D Campaign) this April, I needed to step back and take a break from
 gaming, and to a considerable part also from engaging in social media for a
 couple of weeks \[em] which turned into a couple of months. I checked Discord
-and other places we use (see 
-.I
-Get in Contact
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-in this issue), but didn't write much. Maybe this allowed me to get a bit of a
+and other places we use, but didn't write much. Maybe this allowed me to get a bit of a
 birds eye view but maybe it was just being distanced and out of the loop for
 some time. It made me wonder: what even is this community? And before we
 consider this: is it a community at all? Or is it just some loose cluster of
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 be it this here fanzine, the Discord instance or the fact of having played a
 role in the Campaign. This "Community" may well appear quite fragmented ...
 it's bewildering if you think about it.
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 Then again, when I recently raised the issue of which language to use in this
 zine (english
@@ -117,8 +105,7 @@ a tiny overlap of the groups too. Occasionally some Hamburg players have
 participated in "Montags" games, and on a few occasions "Montags" players have
 participated in games of the Grenzland game that were run online. I'm imagining
 this as a sort of skewed Venn diagram. I'm unsure how large the overlap between
-"Mondays Games" and "Grenzland Discord" should be. It may be close to 100% but
- ... well, I'm not sure.
+"Mondays Games" and "Grenzland Discord" should be. It may be close to 100% but ... well, I'm not sure.
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 Maybe it's easier to think about what I'd like the Grenzland community to be.
 Ready for some wishful thining? Here goes: I'd love to see the Grenzland community as
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 And maybe we're not that far from it, as I see "the usual suspects" sending in
 entries. Just come to think of it: independent from Discord or any other kind
 of digital medium. No configuration files to wrestle with, no enshittification,
-just some thoughtful very slow conversation going back and forth ... And deciding 
-which chat service, virtual tabletop or other system to use, can be decided 
-independently from any ostensible online community.
+just some thoughtful very slow conversation going back and forth ... 
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-Now we still need to get two organizational things out of the way: (1) in past
-issues I used this editorial to give an overview about what this issue has to
-offer. I might return to this habbit, but this editorial clearly is too long 
-already. Instead I'll offer German language summaries for any English articles
-and English summaries for any German language articles. Right at the top of each 
-article. This might raise interest in Grenzland ever so slightly for those who are
-uncomfortable with either one of those languages. And I'll promise to give
-English
-.I and
-German
-summaries, should anyone ever offer an article written in french!
+Just one more thing: I'm changing the release schedule to January and July. The simple reason being that some 
+regular announcements will probably fit in more sensibly. And now: 
+enjoy 
+.I "Grenzland 6 \[em] Domain Games II" !
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