EOS10: Anomaly play testers still needed, Section 14 development trailer launches

Hey everyone, we don't want to alarm you — but it's September. There are just four months left in this year, and we've got so much to do! That includes getting EOS10: Anomaly out and into your hands and also, launching our first ever documentary — Section 14. But we need your help to make it happen. Read on.

Section 14 development trailer launches on Youtube

Section 14 tells the story of a square mile of tribal land in the heart of Palm Springs — land now covered by the hotels, shops, and restaurants that make the city one of the country's top vacation destinations. From 1954 to 1966, under a mayor so popular his statue stood outside city hall for decades, city officials burned and bulldozed the homes of the mostly Black and Latino families who lived there, in what the California Attorney General's Office has called a "city-engineered holocaust."

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Today, more than 14 million tourists visit Palm Springs each year, most unaware of how the city was built. Over the past decade, descendants of Section 14 residents have pushed for recognition and accountability, culminating in a first-of-its-kind restitution framework that will direct millions of dollars to survivors' families and fund a new community and cultural center. This documentary follows that arc — from forced removal to reckoning — and asks what accountability looks like in a wealthy, image-conscious city decades later, and whether Palm Springs' reckoning offers a model for other communities confronting similar histories.

Section 14 is a fiscally sponsored project of the International Documentary Association (IDA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization. Contributions in support of Section 14 are payable to IDA and are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Your support will help fund the research, travel, interviews, and production needed to bring this story to the screen.

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EOS10: Anomaly play testers still needed

Anomaly is coming this fall and play-testing has started. It's not too late to join us. If you're interested, fill out this formand we'll send you a PDF copy that you can start playing right away — either solo or with your own group. For helping us out and submitting feedback, we'll send you the final version (PDF only) along with the Chaos Compendium — a bonus set of play tables and game modes! — when the final book is ready later this year.

New to all this? You can still playlets! Anomaly is what's called a tabletop roleplaying game — the kind you play with a group of friends around a table, no screens, no board (though there are instructions for a color mode, too!). Each person creates a character who's part of the EOS10 crew, and one person runs the game, describing the station and everything happening on it while everyone else decides what their character does. You talk it out, roll dice to see how things go, and the story builds from there as you play.

Sessions center on an anomaly the crew has to deal with, and things tend to go wrong along the way — sometimes very wrong, all at once, for everyone. That's baked into the rules on purpose, so the chaos the show is known for actually happens at the table, not just on screen.