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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8141511" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 40: March 1988part 1/532 pages. The cover image gets a little narrower this issue, as they adopt a new trade dress of hexes along the page margin. They also feel confident enough about getting things out on time that they've narrowed it down to a specific month rather than a range. The adventurers on the cover look like they have a decent idea where they're going as well. Let's see if that impression is correct, or the map is inaccurate and going to lead them into more trouble. Notes From HQ: This is mainly self-congratulation. They've finally got their schedules back on track, and decided to celebrate with some snazzy new trade dress (that just happens to also be quicker and easier to lay out and format properly.) In another rather interesting twist, they're doing another naming contest, to give the D&D Known World a proper name. Since most of us only found out it was called Mystara 5 years later, this is a turnup for the books. Will we get to find out who's originally responsible for the name in a few months time? Or will it be like Raven's Bluff, where the original name was disqualified due to bureaucratic reasons, and the TSR staff wound up picking their own name without any audience voting anyway. Definitely very interested to see how this particular bit of obscure history pans out.Letters: The first letter reminds them that they really need to keep their subscription and renewal process working smoothly, because even minor disruptions massively increase their drop-out rate. Sort that out and hopefully their membership'll start going up again this year.The second letter asks about playtesting for AD&D 2e. It's already taking place. Get a bunch of friends together and fill in a club membership form and you can get high priority for that sort of thing.Finally, we have another of those regular complaints that their output is too TSR-centric. It's considerably less so than Dungeon, and about the same as Dragon. If anything, they try and favour the few non D&D submissions they get for the sake of variety, and have done for years. If you want to change the balance, send appropriate material in.</blockquote>

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