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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8101927" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 34: Jan/Feb 1987part 4/5Arcane Academe: This column is once again only half a page long and really basic as a result, reminding you that when you're short of inspiration, you can steal ideas from anywhere. Books, TV shows, real life, your own personal experiences, recycling stuff from other GM's and previous campaigns if you still can't come up with anything. There, I said in two lines what he took half a page to say. Truly yawnsome. Submission Guidelines: They get this a lot, so they're repeating all the submissions guidelines on a page of their own instead of answering them ad hoc as they appear in letters. Unsurprisingly, their standards have definitely become stricter over the past 6 years - they really don't want you using em dashes or excessive exclamation marks, emphasising your words with format changes or even employing the humble semicolon. (We only provide employment to pureblooded colons around here, thank you very much!) They're also really stepping up the insistence that everything has to be all family friendly, all the time. No sex, drugs, racism, (speciesism against humanoids will still be just fine in practice though) or anything else that might make evil look cool. As with last issue, it's obvious in hindsight how they're leaving huge areas of storytelling space untapped, open for other companies to take advantage of. It made the history of roleplaying as a whole more interesting, but it means the next 10+ years of these magazines are even more bowdlerised than they would have been otherwise, which is a nuisance for me. RPGA Tournament winners list: This is much the same as 2 issues ago, only with a few more additions and corrections. They really are struggling with getting all the forms filled in and collected. Will they ever get on top of it, or will this plague us the entire run of the newszine? Guess I'll have to keep going and see.</blockquote>

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