Turnstone Press an incredibly dynamic and exciting business, with incredible highs and frustrating lows. Turnstone’s Bird on a Wire is part blog, part rant, and part resource. It’s our place on the web to share our thoughts and experiences while working in Canadian publishing.” Turnstone Press Turnstone Press is a Canadian literary publisher founded in 1976 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially Turnstone published chapbooks by Manitoba poets, and today fifty percent of their content published each year is either written by Manitoba writers or contains content about Manitoba. Since its debut, Turnstone has grown to include fiction, literary criticism and literary non-fiction. In
Creature type (Dungeons & Dragons) a change to an animal creature that increases its Intelligence or grants it additional abilities, the designer is encouraged to also change the creature's type, usually from animal to magical beast. When real world animals are rendered as vermin (see below) in D&D, they have no Intelligence scores at all. In 3rd edition, the beast type was used for nonhistoric and fantastic, but not necessarily magical vertebrates. The beast type was merged into the animal type in 3.5 edition. A construct is either an animated object of some sort, or an artificially crafted creature. Most construct are mindless automatons, obeying