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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8094796" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 33: Nov/Dec 1986part 3/5Arcane Academe: This column is only half a page long, and gives us a particularly basic bit of advice. Your campaign needs to be fun for everyone if you want it to last. The best way to achieve this is to actually talk to each other about what you want out of the game, and treat it as a collaboration, not a competition where the DM is trying to kill the players, or an arbitrary god jerking them around and railroading them into his preset story. Don't advance the campaign too fast or too slow, don't play favourites. All stuff we've seen before and we will see again, because it remains eternally relevant, unlike the previous article. The Sword & the Anti-Hero: Dragon stopped doing modules as soon as Dungeon started up, but it looks like Polyhedron is going to carry on with them for the foreseeable future. It's another full 16-pager that takes up half the issue as well. Let's head off to mythic Finland to defeat the evil plots of Loviatar, Maiden of Pain. A name that will also be very familiar to Forgotten Realms fans, and not to be confused with the Lady of Pain who runs Sigil. (Although it really makes you think. Is there a connection, or are things with pain in the name just that popular in D&D? (Not as popular as things with Shadow in them though.)) But anyway, the PC's get dropped into an epic quest by the gods to save the world, or at least the country, and have to deal with dwarves both good and evil, saunas, ice caves, polar bears, an evil intelligent sword and a resurrected epic warrior from thousands of years ago. The usual D&D fare, but with different trappings. So there is a bit of themeparkitus here, and as a tournament adventure they can only give you so much freedom, but they do at least have interesting set pieces with multiple solutions, and the sample characters aren't cringe-inducing stereotypes with comedy pun names. (unless they're bilingual puns I'm not getting) It's tolerable enough that I'm interested to see where this takes us, and if future instalments will build on it well or become increasingly ridiculous and over the top.</blockquote>

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