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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8093080" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 33: Nov/Dec 1986part 1/532 pages. Christmas has rolled around again. Let's see what they have to give us this time. With the chaos still continuing in the office, it doesn't look like they'll be delivering anything themed, (and it's quite likely this actually arrived at the subscribers in early 1987) but there are only so many christmas jokes you can make anyway, so let's see what lurks behind this knightly facade. Will it be fair and honourable, or a secret blackguard?Notes from HQ: Skip is the guest editor on this particular issue, a position he has no intention of sticking with for long. In fact, they've already found their new editor, Jean Rabe, another promotion from within the RPGA who's been doing local co-ordinating and running tournaments for them for a while. That makes three female head editors in a row. Dragon never even had one! Curious that despite the overall demographics being about 95% male, so many women are rising to positions of power within the RPGA. I guess they're the ones doing the real work, as the rest of the editorial is another round of grumbling about how apathetic the average member is. We need more people to GM tournaments, not just show up and expect to be handed modules to play on a plate. At the very least you could fill in the forms and vote on the gamer's choice awards each year, instead of leaving it to reflect only the tastes of the most obsessed 2%. It's a hard life, caring passionately about something and realising just how mediocre and unmotivated the average person is. Afraid you'll be railing in vain against that problem forever, no matter how big you get. In fact, the bigger you get, the smaller the ratio of real hardcore participants will become. Such is the nature of fandom. It'll always be a pyramid, not a tower.</blockquote>

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