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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8112950" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 36: May/Jun 1987part 2/5Letters: Our first letter is a rather long one complaining about how tournament-centric the RPGA is. There's so much more you could do for the gaming community. They could, but it'd involve a lot of unpaid volunteer work. Wanna step up? David Carl Argall confronts the geological problems of putting a city on the coast in a D&D setting. You can't go very far down before you hit the water table and most of the dungeon levels are flooded. Unless you want to abandon realism in your worldbuilding entirely, which does not appear to be the case. That's definitely a tricky needle to thread, especially when you have hundreds of RPGA members putting their two cents in about their various areas of real world knowledge. A lesson Monte Cook must also have been paying attention too in his design of Ptolus, as he too put enormous cliffs between the docks and the rest of the city so there was room for plenty of dungeon levels in the middle. Finally, Harold Johnson, one of TSR's marketing people, confronts the issue of support for their non D&D systems. They do have fans, often selling considerably more than the flagship games by rival companies, but not enough of them actually submit material that would let TSR keep up a regular supplement schedule. A problem that continues to this day, given the number of editions Gamma World has got, and then had abandoned after only a few supplements. It's not just a matter of cost-benefit analysis, but also of which systems have lots of active fans vs ones that mostly cater to passive consumers. A good example of just how complex the world really is.</blockquote>

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