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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8076634" data-attributes="member: 27780"><p><strong><u>Polyhedron Issue 29: Mar/Apr 1986</u></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>part 2/5</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Camel's Nose: Our full length adventure is also technically usable, but it's much harder to maintain suspension of disbelief over several sessions when all the encounters are not only silly in concept, but filled with terrible puns, NPC's that are broad (and often rather tasteless) stereotypes with names that reflect their personalities all too well. The sample PCs make Frank Mentzer's naming conventions look sensible, valley elves (as filked in the 1983 april issue of Dragon) make a most un-radical appearance, and the 4th wall gets poked at near the end. It's definitely too goofy for my tastes, and the fat jokes and ethnic stereotypes really have not aged well either. So this is one I'm definitely not ever using for multiple reasons, either in an established campaign or a one-shot. My eyes would be rolling too fast to get through even the first bits of narration. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Ecology of Tiamat: They don't do ecologies in Polyhedron! What are they doing parodying them here, where any non-readers of Dragon won't get the joke? (I know, pretty small part of the roleplayer venn diagram, but there's bound to be some.) It looks at tiamat's stats from the perspective of a seasoned adventurer, and how they don't actually seem that threatening to a well-equipped party. Once you've got to the double digits in levels and optimised properly, why you could get through several Tiamats a day! The AD&D monster manual has been out nearly 9 years now, lots of other books with new spells and magical items have been released, and there has indeed been a certain amount of power escalation, so there is actually a serious point behind the jokes, but it's mainly just a joke, there's no real ecological material here. Good for a mild chuckle, then we have to move on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8076634, member: 27780"] [b][u]Polyhedron Issue 29: Mar/Apr 1986[/u][/b] part 2/5 The Camel's Nose: Our full length adventure is also technically usable, but it's much harder to maintain suspension of disbelief over several sessions when all the encounters are not only silly in concept, but filled with terrible puns, NPC's that are broad (and often rather tasteless) stereotypes with names that reflect their personalities all too well. The sample PCs make Frank Mentzer's naming conventions look sensible, valley elves (as filked in the 1983 april issue of Dragon) make a most un-radical appearance, and the 4th wall gets poked at near the end. It's definitely too goofy for my tastes, and the fat jokes and ethnic stereotypes really have not aged well either. So this is one I'm definitely not ever using for multiple reasons, either in an established campaign or a one-shot. My eyes would be rolling too fast to get through even the first bits of narration. The Ecology of Tiamat: They don't do ecologies in Polyhedron! What are they doing parodying them here, where any non-readers of Dragon won't get the joke? (I know, pretty small part of the roleplayer venn diagram, but there's bound to be some.) It looks at tiamat's stats from the perspective of a seasoned adventurer, and how they don't actually seem that threatening to a well-equipped party. Once you've got to the double digits in levels and optimised properly, why you could get through several Tiamats a day! The AD&D monster manual has been out nearly 9 years now, lots of other books with new spells and magical items have been released, and there has indeed been a certain amount of power escalation, so there is actually a serious point behind the jokes, but it's mainly just a joke, there's no real ecological material here. Good for a mild chuckle, then we have to move on. [/QUOTE]
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