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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 7976322" data-attributes="member: 27780">The Polyhedron Issue 8: Sep/Oct 1982part 4/4Dispel Confusion: Can you double haste yourself? (no, but you can be double slowed. Life ain't fair. )Can you advance multiple levels in one go? (No. The DM must strictly enforce training times and costs or you are not playing the Official AD&D™ game! If they get too much experience without advancing a level it goes to waste.)How do multiple attacks for high level and RoF rules combine? (They don't. One or the other.)Is Sage Advice official? (Not as official as my column! I'm Frank Mentzer! I'm far more important than Jean or Skip or whoever's running it this month!) What happens if your ability scores are drained below the minimum for your class? (You lose it until they're restored. It may be easier to just retire the character altogether)What do I do after winning against Lolth (Your DM is on his own there, that's the highest level module we've got a the moment. Wait a few years, some more'll be along eventually) The Knight-Error: As I predicted, the exposition heavy high fantasy of NOR gets replaced by a four panel newspaper style comedy strip. The kind of thing that can run for years without the characters evolving in any way, as they're painted in broad enough strokes that they're always accessible to new readers. A dumbass knight who doesn't know how to pick his battles? There's plenty of possibilities in that. Will they do them to death, or will his tenure be just as short as his predecessor's?Notes from HQ: While Mary's taken over the editorial and the day-to-day running of the newszine, this column goes to Kim Eastland, who's job is co-ordinating between the various departments of the RPGA now it's too big for one person to handle. As is often the case when a new person takes over, this article is about repeating the basics. If you want to contribute, make sure all the legal stuff is sorted, include an SASE so they can reply, and check that what you're sending is in their remit. They're not Dragon, so they're not interested in general purpose gaming material, but they are interested in ways they can further organise and grow the roleplaying community. Remember that and we'll get on famously. Seems pretty standard. Whatever you want to do, the same basic logistical and human wrangling issues apply. Just got to keep repeating yourself until at least the majority get the message. Gift Catalogue: This is identical to the last issue. Nothing to say here. Membership Drive: This is also identical to the last issue. So it goes. Promotion takes a lot of repetition to reach everyone who might be receptive to it. With the new bosses making substantial changes as soon as they were put in charge, this already feels like another fresh start for the newszine, improving the layout and artwork, and adding some more lighthearted humour to the mix. They might be taking organising the RPGA and getting everything running on time seriously, but they haven't forgotten that the whole point of the organisation is having fun. As long as that remains the case, hopefully these will remain fun to read as well.</blockquote>

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