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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 7970957" data-attributes="member: 27780">The Polyhedron Issue 7: Jul/Aug 1982part 2/4Dispel Confusion: What use is the expert set? (If you want to venture into the wilderness, a hell of a lot.) The Endless Quest books break the rules. (NPC's can do a lot of things you can't in any edition of the game. Deal with it. )How powerful is a ranger's spellcasting? (1 at the first level they gain spells, so x-7 or 8 Best to use the slots for utility tricks, not combat.)Encumbrance is a pain to calculate (Yes. Yes it is. )What level should a ranged cure spell be? (It should not. That's horrifically game-breaking and not supported by mythic sources. Away with you, vile twink! ) RPGA Interview with Mike Carr: Time for the plane fighting guy to get his turn in the hot seat. He's been part of the team since 1974, before the company was even fully incorporated and a full-time job for anyone. He's less interested in the RPG side of things, but has still wound up making some fairly significant contributions anyway. In fact, they specifically got him to write B1 because he'd bring a beginners perspective to the module intended for beginners. He's a particularly avid conventiongoer, which makes him a good fit for working on Polyhedron, and keeps up his perfect Gen Con attendance record long after leaving game design behind. Gaming is a fundamentally social activity, and that's what he seems to be most excited about, using both wargaming and roleplaying as a way to bring people together all over the world, and ensure that they'll never get bored due to the combination of random and tactical elements producing more interesting games with fewer duplications of results than either on their own. Another interesting perspective on the early years of gaming. Notes from the DM: Gary responds to last issue's realism debate. He could easily have made AD&D much more detailed and realistic, but intentionally chose not too. The one attack a minute thing is an abstraction. As with the article he's responding too, this is all stuff I've seen before in greater detail, many many times. Do we really need to go over it again?Spelling Bee: Having gone into great detail on one type of spell in the last issue, they go completely the other way this time, with a load of little comments on various cleric spells. Most of the interpretations are obvious, but a few are outright expansions of the rules, because they're the official designers, and they can. Collectively they reinforce that clerics are the class you need not only to heal the party after a fight, but also to buff them before (and good preparation goes a long way in keeping you from getting hurt in the first place. ) Without one, your team is a lot less resilient, especially if you have multiple encounters in quick succession. Even before tons of supplements blurred their niches, clerics were better than wizards until you got to ultra-high levels. Don't underestimate them.</blockquote>

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