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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8024156" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 19: Jul/Aug 1984part 1/634 pages. From Marvel Superheroes straight to Indiana Jones. They are doing a lot of licensed stuff at the moment. With mixed success, as history shows this particular partnership doesn't have the same kind of impact, since they only have a few movies of material to draw upon compared to decades of comics, cartoons, tv shows and movies. Let's see how good a job they do of making it look cool in here. Notes from HQ: The classifieds are getting enough submissions to fill most of this page with people looking for gaming groups all across the USA, so they shrink the font size for the editorial. As a result it's not very interesting. Just another apology that bureaucracy is slow and they can't be absolutely certain your subscription will start straight away after you send it in. Between postage times and processing, and depending what time of the month you send it in, it could be next issue or the one after. Definitely an area the internet has improved things, cutting response times enormously. It's good to be reminded how much some things have improved in our lifetime.The Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors: Our indiana jones adventure is quite different from the marvel superheroes scenario last issue. While that gave you a general setup, but left you the freedom to try and solve it any way you want (which is quite a lot of ways given the flexibility of spider-man's powerset) this is heavily scripted, and almost entirely based upon rolling the dice and following the results to the next bit of text, like a choose your own adventure game without, well, the choosing part. This is not as pleasing to me, especially as I've seen from ARES recently that you can squeeze a full solo choose your own adventure game with meaningful choices into a module sized space with small font and good editing. This could have been a lot better. Railroads are no more interesting when they're in a flimsy minecart underground.</blockquote>

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