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What Can Twelve People and a 12,000 Year Old Pair of Dice Teach a Distracted Culture?

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The independent publisher behind Tales of the Valiant will appear in a forthcoming feature examining how collaborative storytelling builds literacy, teamwork and community, and why the company staked its reputation on work made by people.
Kobold Press will be featured in a forthcoming segment of “All Access hosted by Andy Garcia,” a short-form documentary series distributed to Public Television stations nationwide. Filming is scheduled for September 19, 2026, at the production company’s Florida studio, where Kobold Press’ Chief Executive Officer, Alexander Stangroom, and Marketing Director, Dot Steverson, will travel to represent the twenty year old publisher.

The feature will examine how tabletop roleplaying games function as tools for reading comprehension, quick arithmetic, negotiation and improvisation, and why libraries, schools and community organizations have added them to their programming.
Founded on LiveJournal with a digital tip jar years before crowdfunding platforms existed, Kobold Press has published material for more than ten different game systems, a range that includes the cozy animal adventure RiverBank and the card game Necromancer alongside fantasy staples such as Tome of Beasts and the Midgard Campaign Setting. That variety is deliberate. The company argues that the hobby is far broader than any single title, and it maintains free entry points, among them a library game night program and a starter kit, so newcomers can try a session without spending anything first.

“The whole team is thrilled to dive into the Kobold Press story with All Access. For more than 20 years, the kobolds have been driven by a love of games, storytelling, and the worldwide community that has grown around it. This is a wonderful opportunity to look at where we started, celebrate how far we’ve come, and provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the people and passion behind a small publisher like Kobold Press. It’s an honor to have this opportunity, and we can’t wait to invite viewers into our world.”-Wolfgang Baur

Creative industries are still working out where generative systems belong, and the debate has been sharp among illustrators, editors and game designers whose work trains those systems. In 2025 Kobold Press issued a public pledge committing to human authorship across its catalog and invited colleagues to sign on; hundreds did. The position is practical as much as philosophical. Readers of a monster manual are buying judgment, voice and the particular decisions of a named artist. The company also declines to disparage competitors, holding that a larger, healthier field brings more players to more tables, which benefits publishers of every size.

Household budgets for entertainment have tightened, and tabletop publishers feel that pressure alongside everyone else. The counterargument the industry makes is durability. One hardcover book can occupy a group of friends for hundreds of hours, and staff at Kobold Press still play from books printed back in the 1980s, volumes now handed down to their own children. Very few forms of entertainment survive that long. The company hosts hundreds of organized play tables at GenCon, sponsors the tabletop gaming track at DragonCon, and runs Kobold Con, an annual online anniversary gathering with community games, product reveals and charitable donation matching.

About “All Access hosted by Andy Garcia”: “All Access hosted by Andy Garcia” is an educational short-form documentary series airing on Public Television stations across the country. Each feature profiles organizations, institutions and companies whose work carries broader instructional value, presenting their methods and their fields in accessible terms for a general audience. The series covers subjects ranging from healthcare and infrastructure to education, conservation and the arts. Additional information about the program, including previously produced features and submission details, is available at allaccessptv.com.

About Kobold Press: Kobold Press is an independent publisher of tabletop roleplaying games, founded by Wolfgang Baur and known for monster design, worldbuilding and illustration. Its catalog includes Tales of the Valiant, a complete roleplaying system funded by more than one million dollars in community support, along with Tome of Beasts, Creature Codex, the Midgard Campaign Setting, the Campaign Builder line and the Kobold Guides series for aspiring designers. The company partners with digital platforms including Roll20 and ShardVTT while continuing to invest in printed books. Products, free resources and event schedules are available at koboldpress.com.

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4Humanity Introduces the National Positivity Portal, Using AI to Make the Good Happening Across America Easier to See

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AI-powered platform discovers and organizes real stories of nonprofit impact into a growing, searchable archive of America’s goodness

BOSTON, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today, 4Humanity announced the National Positivity Portal, an AI-powered platform designed to discover, organize, and amplify real stories of positive impact happening across America.

The idea behind the Portal is simple: use artificial intelligence not to tell people what to think, but to help people see more of what is already happening. Its larger mission is to help lift humanity by building trust in human potential.

The National Positivity Portal continuously discovers publicly available stories from nonprofits and organizations across the country and organizes them into one searchable experience. Visitors can explore organizations and stories by cause, location, and mission, watch short daily stories of hope, compassion, service, and positive change, and find opportunities to learn more, support, volunteer, donate, or get involved.

“The problem isn’t that good things aren’t happening. It’s that we rarely see them,” said Glenn Court, Founder of 4Humanity. “Every day across America, nonprofits, foundations, civic organizations, and individuals are feeding families, supporting young people, strengthening communities, protecting the vulnerable, and helping people in countless other ways. But those stories are scattered across thousands of websites, social feeds, and local news outlets, making the full picture difficult to see. 4Humanity is working to change that.”

What AI Makes Possible
For the first time, artificial intelligence makes it possible to discover, organize, and connect positive impact stories at a scale and speed no human team could sustain.

The Portal can continuously search publicly available information, identify stories of service and positive impact, categorize them, and make them accessible through one platform. Each story contributes to a growing archive searchable by cause, location, and organization.

Rather than using AI to generate another stream of outrage or division, 4Humanity is asking a different question: What if AI could help make humanity’s best qualities more visible?

The result is intended to become a daily proof of goodness, a place where people can regularly see real examples of service, compassion, responsibility, and positive change.

An Invitation to Organizations Across America

4Humanity is inviting nonprofits across the country to opt in, with each becoming an affirming organization of the National Positivity Portal.

Organizations are affirming that their work is part of a larger national pattern of positive virtue and helping make that pattern visible.

For participating organizations, the Portal offers another way for people to discover their mission, learn about their impact, and connect with opportunities to support, volunteer, donate, or get involved.

For more information, visit 4Humanity.net to learn, explore the Portal, and opt in to help connect the good happening across America.

About the National Positivity Portal – 4Humanity.net
The National Positivity Portal is a nonpartisan, nonreligious, AI-driven platform that showcases, connects, and organizes the work of America’s nonprofits and civic organizations under one shared umbrella of demonstrated positive virtue. Its mission is to help lift humanity by building back trust in human potential. For more information, visit: 4Humanity.net.

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iScreen Expands iOS 27 Customization With New Extra-Large Widget Experiences, iPhone Duo Theme Support and AI-Powered Home Screen Design

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The latest update introduces interactive extra-large widget hubs, adaptive layouts for iPhone Duo, and AI-assisted Home Screen personalization.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — iScreen, a mobile customization app for iOS and Android, today announced a new round of features and content designed around iOS 27, expanding the ways users can personalize their Home Screens with widgets, themes and emerging display formats.

The update highlights new experiences built around iOS 27’s extra-large widget format, theme layouts optimized for iPhone Duo, and a new collection of iOS 27-inspired visual styles. iScreen is also expanding its exploration of AI-assisted personalization through AI Home Screen Designer, offering a more intuitive way to create coordinated screen setups.

Extra-Large Widgets Unlock New Home Screen Experiences

With the expanded widget dimensions available in iOS 27, iScreen is introducing new experiences designed specifically for the larger canvas, going beyond simply scaling up existing widget formats.

The new collection features a variety of extra-large widgets, including Photo, Album, Music, Calendar, Interactive Refrigerator and Quick Launch widgets, giving users new ways to display content, interact with their Home Screen and access frequently used functions. iScreen also supports customizable extra-large widgets, allowing users to personalize content, layouts and visual styles to create more functional and expressive Home Screen experiences.

Theme Layouts Optimized for iPhone Duo

To accommodate the new screen proportions and display dimensions of iPhone Duo, iScreen has optimized selected theme resources for the device’s current screen format.

Wallpapers, widgets, icons and overall Home Screen layouts have been adjusted to better fit the new proportions while maintaining a balanced and cohesive visual experience.

Looking ahead, iScreen plans to further explore layout behavior, widget adaptation and visual continuity across different display states as new device formats create additional possibilities for mobile personalization.

iOS 27-Inspired Themes for a Cohesive New Look

Alongside its widget and device-format updates, iScreen has introduced a new collection of iOS 27-inspired themes reflecting the latest visual trends in iPhone customization.

The collection brings together coordinated wallpapers, transparent-style widgets, icons and other visual elements. By combining these assets into complete setups, users can create a polished and consistent Home Screen without having to manually search for and match individual elements.

AI-Assisted Home Screen Design

iScreen is also exploring how AI can make Home Screen personalization faster and more intuitive. AI Home Screen Designer can generate coordinated design suggestions based on a user’s preferences for style, color and visual elements, combining wallpapers, widgets and icons into a unified setup.

The feature is currently available to a limited group of users for testing. iScreen will continue refining the generation experience based on user feedback and plans to gradually expand availability.

“Personalization is shifting from static aesthetics to dynamic, context-aware experiences,” said the iScreen creative team. “With iOS 27’s larger widgets and iPhone Duo’s dual-display format, this update delivers deeper visual immersion and automated tools that simplify creating a cohesive Home Screen setup.”

About iScreen

iScreen is a mobile customization app providing widgets, wallpapers and themed layouts for iOS and Android devices. Ranking among the top home screen customization platforms worldwide, iScreen has more than 100 million users and has been featured by Apple Editorial in 128 countries for five consecutive days. With interactive and decorative options, iScreen enables users to personalize both Home Screens and Lock Screens for a more immersive mobile experience.

Official Website: iScreen – Phone Style, iScreen it!

iOS Download: ‎‎iScreen – Widgets & Wallpaper App – App Store ‎

Android Download: iScreen Google Play

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