Scott Moore - Böcker

The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces - burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas across the globe. And with climate change, rainfall will become more fickle, with longer and deeper periods of droughts and deluges. This report presents new evidence to advance understanding on how rainfall shocks coupled with water scarcity, impacts farms, firms, and families. On farms, the largest consumers of water in the world, impacts are channeled from declining yields to changing landscapes. In cities, water extremes especially when combined with unreliable infrastructure can stall firm production, sales, and revenue. At the center of this are families, who feel the impacts of this uncertainty on their incomes, jobs, and long-term health and welfare. Although a rainfall shock may be fleeting, its consequences can become permanent and shape the destiny of those who experience it.Pursuing business as usual will lead many countries down a 'parched path' where droughts shape destinies. Avoiding this misery in slow motion will call for fundamental changes to water policy around the globe. Building resilience to rainfall variability will require using different policy instruments to address the multifaceted nature of water. A key message of this report is that water has multiple economic attributes, each of which entail distinct policy responses. If water is not managed more prudently--from source, to tap, and back to source--the crises observed today will become the catastrophes of tomorrow.

Monsters & Magic of Thracia is a 32-page softcover collection of all-new monsters and magic items, presented ready-to-use with both DCC RPG and 5E game stats.

The Sacrificial Pyre of Thracia is an all-new 32-page softcover adventure for 1st-level characters, fully compatible with the fifth edition of the world’s first fantasy role-playing game.

When islanders on the Starry Archipelago start going missing, the region teeters on the edge of warfare. It’s up to the characters to discover what lurks beneath the island and end its threat to the surface world.

The cult of The Dark One practice sacrifice as a way of offering tribute to their deity. The cult has a major stronghold located within an extinct volcano, which conceals a sacrificial pyre to their dark god. The cult has flourished and now preys on local settlements to stoke the greedy flames of the pyre. Heroes are needed to put the cult to the sword and quench the fires of the sacrificial fires once and for all!The Sacrificial Pyre of Thracia is an all-new 1st-level adventure, fully compatible with DCC RPG. This adventure is the perfect prequel to DCC RPG: The Caverns of Thracia. However, that book is not required to use this adventure, which can be easily dropped into your own campaign setting.

The heroes find a key to unlock a mysterious portal leading to the Alabaster Tower of Thracia, the long abandoned home of a Thracian cleric. As the heroes explore the tower, they encounter numerous animated objects and constructs still functioning. At the top of the tower they face off against a horrible monstrosity created from a clone of the cleric and discover its foul pact with the dark god Set.