Updated Files
August 15, 2010
Some minor editorial changes have been made to the following files written by Christian Düntgen, so you may want to download them again. Just click in the links below to go to the file’s download page.
Downloading Files
July 17, 2010
As you know, all files available for download from Lythia.com are free. The only currency the writers of these fine articles receive is the accolades of those who like their work and say something and, from the silent majority, an ever increasing counter on the download page.
Ever since I moved to the current format of this website, I’ve been using a plugin to provide that counter. Unfortunately, the author of the plugin no longer maintains the plugin and I’ve been dreading the time when it might stop working. That time as arrived, sad to say. I have some experience in the language (PHP), but I’m no expert. However, I have enough to make a workaround. It’s not pretty, but it will allow people to download the files they want, and still keep the counters ticking over for the authors.
If you have problems downloading a file, you will be able to find a direct link to it on the All Files page under the About menu item above.
Venârivè Player Guide (Free)
April 30, 2010
This 20-page free module provides a general overview and guide for players of characters in the northwestern region of Lýthia – Venârivè.
Venârivè: Northwestern Lýthia is published!
April 30, 2010
It is with great pleasure that Keléstia Productions Ltd announces that Venârivè: Northwestern Lýthia is now available for purchase and download.
Updated Kelestia.com website
April 24, 2010
Keléstia Productions Ltd is very proud to announce that our updated website is now live.
Chéler Index (Free)
April 16, 2010
Keléstia Productions has released an index of the content of the principal products which describe the Kingdom of Chélemby.
Hârnforum Email Digests
January 3, 2010
After a long absence, email digests are back. Yes, there is yet another way for you to receive your dose of Hârnforum goodness!
Just log in to the forum, go to your User Control Panel (you’ll find that in the upper right, just underneath the header bar), and look down the left-hand menu for Digests.
All the options are fairly self-explanatory, but to be clear about one thing I found, you will have to subscribe first and click the submit button on that page, then go back to the Digests options to customise it to your taste. Just be sure to click the submit for each page you change (there are about four different pages). But to repeat, subscribe first, then change the other options.
by Leitchy
Hârnforum RSS Feed
January 3, 2010
Those of you who use RSS or ATOM can now receive their dose of Hârn news from the forums directly into their feed reader. The feed fires out complete posts, not just the first few lines, which means you don’t have to go to the forum’s website to read the posts. But you will have to go back to post yourself, of course.
To find out the address, please check out the About >RSS Feeds page. It’s yet another way you can stay in touch. 
I hope you find it useful; I know I will!
by Leitchy
Chéler Player Guide (Free) Released!
November 8, 2009
Keléstia Productions is very pleased to announce the release of the first of our free Player Guides – the Chéler Player Guide.
This Guide will assist players (and Gamemasters) new to the Chéler people gain an overview of the kingdom, its major city and the people who live there. It provides an introduction to the culture, history, politics and geography of the kingdom and its surroundings, making players more at home and able to enjoy this fascinating setting.
The guide is the perfect accompaniment to the Keléstia Productions series of publications covering Chélemby – including Kingdom of Chélemby, Chélemby: City of the Sea Kings, and the Chélemby Interactive Map.
The Chéler Player Guide can be downloaded from http://www.kelestia.com.
Hávnhus Interactive PDF map
Today we have also released another interactive, multi-layered PDF map for Chélemby City. This is a high-quality version of the Hávnhus (I34) map included in Chélemby: City of the Sea Kings. This multi-layered map will enable GMs to decide what information they wish to share with players, and enable them to print out those features they wish. The Hávnhus interactive map can be downloaded from http://www.kelestia.com.
Other free Chélemby downloads
We have a growing number of free downloads design to support GMs and players using the Chélemby setting. Downloads include a PDF version of the poetic map of Chélemby City, PDF versions of the interior layouts, and more. These can be be found on the Chélemby Downloads page.
Chéler Player Guide
Fair Thee Well, harnlist.com
October 30, 2009
I have owned the domain name “harnlist.com” for a very long time now. I purchased the domain from a UK (actually, Scottish) company called Easyspace way back in the previous century…or maybe it was early this century. No matter, suffice to say it was years and years ago. Days and days and more days, even!
Unfortunately, a couple of years later—around about the time I purchased a heap of new domains from them—they underwent an ownership change. They suddenly became very expensive, and very hard to work with. Overnight, it became incredibly easy to transfer a domain name from another hosting service to them, but impossibly difficult and incredibly expensive to transfer domains away from them (eg, it took me three hours to just find the page which allowed transfers away from them, and then it started to get difficult).
I have let lapse a number of domains I had with them, and transferred the three domains I really wanted to keep (including Lythia.com) away from them to my current hosting service and registrar (Dreamhost). I still gag at the cost! Should I ever want to, transfers away from Dreamhost are free, and easy to do. So why does Easyspace make it so hard? I don’t know, and I no longer care (although I suspect greed plays a big part).
But one domain that I didn’t bring across, and which is now in a “redemption” period is “harnlist.com”. This was always just the domain name for the website which supported the HârnList (ie, the email distribution list) itself, but the information it once held has long since been ported to Lythia.com. The mailing list itself was always “harnlist@lythia.com”. I don’t know why I thought I might need the domain, frankly, but I bought it and kept it going for many years. And now it’s time to let it go…
Fly free, little domain name! Keep clear of domain squatters and spamvertisers…if you can.
In other words, people, don’t go to this domain anymore, because I don’t own it or control it. And at a cost of £99, I’m not going to redeem it, either.