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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8227729" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 50: November 1989part 1/544 pages. We do seem to be in an extra festive mood, as a red-clad gnome distributes free presents to an appreciative crowd. This being D&D, there's bound to be a catch somewhere that forces adventurers to get involved. Let's see if the writing inside will be getting a similar bump in production values, and just how useful the various presents in this expanded special issue will be. Completing the Thief: They might have been offering presents for free on the cover, but in the real world, you'll still have to pay to get your shiny new toys for the shiny new edition. Unless you steal them of course, which is where this bit of promotion comes in. Buy the complete thief's handbook, and you get access to a whole new axis of customisation for your characters! The rest of it is an explanation of what Kits are, the names of all the example ones that'll be appearing in this book and why you might want one. (such as if you're one of the people annoyed about Assassins being removed from the corebook and want them mechanically differentiated from regular thieves again.) A reminder that 2e is going to lean a lot harder on the splatbooks and other player-facing crunchy stuff than 1e, and this is a trend that will only escalate in the next couple of editions as well. As this is the kind of advert that's useless once you buy the book, it's one of the more tedious examples of it's type. Give us something a little more exclusive please, not something I've already seen examined from many different angles already.Mutant Materials: Kim Eastland still hasn't quite run out of ideas for more Gamma World equipment, but they're getting increasingly weird. Which given that this is gamma world is actually a good thing. A selection of exotic materials that for all practical purposes are indistinguishable from magic, for those players who want enhanced gear like they're used to in D&D. Your basic light but ultra damaging ones, your ones that are extra effective against specific monsters, psychic crystals that enhance your energy manipulation mutations, intelligent blobs that can shapeshift into any item of similar size, and two different kinds of ultra-shiny metal that have special effects when wielded in bright light. Absolutely no basis in scientific plausibility, but they're pretty broadly useful abilities, and that's what counts in actual play, plus the rules are general enough to be easily transferred to other systems. Why should D&D characters hog all the power escalation in here?Notes From HQ: Since this is an expanded special issue, they've got a lot to talk about in here as well. They started off from humble beginnings nearly 10 years ago, and look at them now, releasing full-sized AD&D sourcebooks packed with exclusive material. It definitely hasn't been a smooth ride though, they were regularly running embarrassingly late, and went through several rapid staff changeovers before the current set came along. They couldn't have done it without their ordinary members, and still can't. This pivots neatly to another reminder that if you want your convention to run official tournaments and be promoted in here, you need to do so a good 6-12 months in advance. If you're moving house, you need to tell us where you're going, etc etc. They're still only human, and not mind-readers. But they're gradually growing again, and look forward to another decade which will hopefully be even bigger and better. Yeah, about that …… <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Life doesn't go smooth, does it. Let's continue the journey back to the present, one month at a time, and see which ones are good and which ones are bad for them.</blockquote>

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