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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8045389" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 23: Mar/Apr 1985part 1/628 pages. Tom Wham gives us a suitably goofy cover for our april fools issue. Looks like they have a substantial surplus from Dragon this year, so they're sharing the levity here. Let's see if the jokes will have any practical applications or lessons mixed in with the wit, or it'll be nothing but groan-inducing puns and filks. Notes From HQ: The editorial is mostly serious, apart from an exceedingly verbose footnote in intentionally obscure vocabulary that tells us they have no plans to talk about the sex lives of monsters in D&D in the near future. They reassure anyone who got this as their first issue that it isn't normally like this in here. They can be serious about their fun, but all working on play makes Jack a dull boy and it's good to blow off steam once in a while. Normal transmissions will resume next issue. Ultimists: Gary has certainly been guilty of power creep over the years, with the new classes he introduced, and will soon compile in Unearthed Arcana showing definite signs of escalation over the core ones. But they do have at least some balancing factors, in higher requirements to join and idiosyncratic behavioural restrictions. This is not the case in this parody of the worst twinks out there. Ultimists are indeed better than everyone at everything, able to outfight the fighters, outsneak the thieves, cast 9th level spells right from 1st level, and have really low XP requirements for advancement on top of that. The rules are functional and comprehensible, but obviously completely unbalanced and not intended for use in actual play. If you do try and mix them with regular characters, you deserve everything you get.</blockquote>

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