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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8019775" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 18: May/Jun 1984part 1/632 pages. Spider-man vs the Scorpion fighting across the New York train lines. That is a turnup for the books. The Marvel Superhero RPG had a long and healthy run of articles in Dragon lasting nearly 10 years. It'll definitely be interesting to see if that's matched in here, and what else they can add to it. Which characters and scenarios will they decide to focus on in polyhedron and will they be any good? Let's get web swinging, because the city isn't going to save itself. From the editor: Unsurprisingly, the editorial is also very enthusiastic about the arrival of Marvel material. They've included multiple articles on it, making it a themed issue. May they have a long and fruitful collaboration. They're also happy that their request for more reader-submitted articles is paying off. Hopefully that'll also continue without constantly needing to be asked for over and over again. Finally, and most significantly, they've brought Penny Petticord on as an official member of staff. She's been doing a lot of the behind the scenes organisational stuff in their convention tournaments right from the start, and her hard work has been recognised and rewarded. Get used to her, because she'll be sticking around for a long time in one role or another. The money might be nice, but she's the kind of person who would keep on doing this stuff without it. Without people like her, a hobby would eventually grind to a halt. Long may this silly little game of let's pretend continue to draw us into it.Encounters: The Scorpion has captured J. Jonah Jameson! Spider-Man had better rescue him quickly, otherwise he'll probably wind up with a new, more pleasant boss at his day job! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> It's a hard job, being a hero, living with those kind of moral dilemmas, torn between the greater good and maybe, just once, getting ahead in life. So this is a pretty good introductory scenario for the game, written from the perspective that many of the readers won't know the rules yet, and need reminding that this is not D&D, so killing all your opponents without regard for collateral damage is not the way to go. In fact, even one intentional killing will make you lose all your Karma, which could be weeks or months of saved up advancement lost. If you aren't willing to get into the spirit of things and subdue, trick, imprison or banish your enemies instead, (and accept that they'll probably be back at some point) using this system won't go well for you. Very interesting indeed. It's definitely good that they're thinking about genre emulation, and not just recycling the same system for every game with a few cosmetic changes. A very pleasing start to the articles indeed.</blockquote>

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