Last year, D&D Nexus reported on TSR UK’s campaign setting, called Pelinore, in a story called The World of Pelinore is flat… The story was not just about the setting, it was also about the website trying to revive this little known campaign world.
Now that website — PelinoreRevived — is being upgraded and has been taken down for maintenance. I first found out about the upgrade in a thread at The Piazza’s forum for the Pelinore Campaign Setting. But you can’t just take down the world’s leading Pelinore fansite, without letting people know when it is coming back, can you? So to keep hungry Pelinore fans happy the administrator has put up a 4DVENTURE-style countdown.
The original 4DVENTURE countdown
For those who don’t know about 4DVENTURE countdown, it was a publicity stunt that Wizards of the Coast used, right at the end of the 3rd Edition era. Anyone going to visit any Dungeons & Dragons page on their website got redirected to a special 4DVENTURE page that told people when the new D&D content would come up…down to the exact second
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The 4DVENTURE countdown certainly did its job. In fact, so many people were talking about what was going to happen, when that counter got to zero, that when the 4DVENTURE website actually went live, the Wizards of the Coast server got swamped by excited D&D fans and crashed again and again and again under the excessive load.
In fact the crash that happened after the 4DVENTURE clock hit zero seemed to get more publicity than the actual content that went up when the website came back.
Until the PelinoreRevied upgrade
The exact details of the upgrade will only be discovered after it returns, but some of the improvements that have been hinted at include: improved menus, rewritten articles, and a cyclopedia that may well be very similar to the sort of thing mentioned in the D&D Nexus story: How canon wikis can multiply the power of D&D fandom.
If you want to find out more about PelinoreRevived and the Pelinore campaign setting, you can visit the following places:
Here is hoping that all goes well and that PelinoreRevived doesn’t suffer the same fate as 4DVENTURE when it returns.

