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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8066349" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 27: Nov/Dec 1985part 2/6The Thorinson Clan: Our cover image is once again a collection of NPC's without a particular plotline attached to them. It's also another demonstration of how to differentiate characters when they're mechanically very similar, as every one of these 5 is a dwarf fighter of medium level, not even a multiclass mixed in for variety. So the emphasis has to be on their backstories and personalities. Thankfully these are pretty decent, spinning a saga of a dysfunctional family tree. The father and mother, the favoured son, the black sheep, and the illegitimate grandchild none of them knew about until recently. And thanks to the long lifespans of dwarves, they could probably add several more links to that family tree before the top ones start dropping off. As with the ogres, this is pretty interesting reading, even if it does make me long for 2e and the introduction of kits to give them a bit more variety mechanically. You can definitely get a fair bit of use out of them over the course of a campaign. She-Rampage: Our first Marvel scenario in here put 2 characters up against each other. The second racked that up to 4. This pits a full 6 heroes against the bad guy's minions. Keep on like this and you'll be up to Infinity Wars levels of escalation within a few years. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> 5 established marvel heroines, plus a superpowered self-insert of this fine publication's editor meet up to deal with fake images of themselves appearing in a girlie magazine …… with extreme prejudice. As this is the marvel universe, it turns out they're not just dealing with your basic drooling sexists, but interdimensional sexists with rocket boots, power armor and lasers who are part of a nefarious conspiracy to make the entire multiverse more sexist. Which to be honest is probably not even the strangest thing they've fought this month. So this is simultaneously very dated in some ways, and still all too relevant in others. The internet age has made porn and photoshopped images so common that hardly anyone's going to get worked up about a few fake nudes, but even the mightiest hero can be socially pwned online by a trolling noobmeister posting a particularly cutting meme, (except maybe Vision and a few of the more powerful reality-warpers) and even if they hunt down one troll IRL it's not going to stop the mockery. If anything, the Streisssand effect may make whatever they were trying to get rid of more widely seen. Sexism is still alive and kicking despite both grass-roots efforts and legislation. No amount of heroic asskicking will solve large-scale structural inequalities. But just maybe, we can get some light relief by playing make believe in a better world, and that'll give us strength to keep on trying to improve this one.</blockquote>

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