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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8228292" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 50: November 1989part 2/5Letters: The first letter raises questions about how many RPGA tournaments aren't actually exclusive to members. It's your typical loss leader. Let them play the first one without any commitment, THEN sell them on signing up and the benefits from having a persistent presence in the scene & accumulating points for each one you play in. Marketing principles remain pretty similar whatever the field. The second raises another scoring question. We've had a ton of debate on scoring different types of roleplaying, but what about rewarding people for mastery of the rules? That's something that can be done much more objectively, yet doesn't seem to factor at all in a lot of people's voting. We haven't had a rollplaying vs roleplaying argument in a while, have we. I guess it is about time, especially with new rules that allow more character customisation, and therefore more chances for over and underpowered builds. Fun In Games: Rick manages to be both festive and wacky with his latest suggestion. Running out of suitably impressive foes to pit your minis against? Use the thanksgiving turkey! With or without the flesh still attached, it's the perfect size to look like a really terrifying dragon by comparison! Ha. Now that's an idea I've seen before, but only once, and it was chronologically a lot later, in Dragon issue 347. It's quite possible that that was inspired by this article in the first place. If you want to give them extra incentive to fight hard, use Gummi Bears as minions, and whoever kills one gets to eat them. These are both highly usable ideas that I might actually try when face-to-face gaming becomes an option again. I won't be using any of the slang suggestions, which continue to just not be very catchy. In a world where the best memes rapidly get shared around the world without any central curation, the old attempts to make new cool words happen seem very quaint and forced. With Great Power: This column does not live up to it's name this instalment, instead choosing to focus on some completely non-superpowered street level heroes. The Wolfpack are your typical 5 man band of teenagers dragged into an ancient war between good and evil and expected to protect the south bronx from whatever the cabal of 9 remorselessly evil cackling villains throw at them this week with nothing but their wits and whatever gear they can cobble together. If they talked to other superheroes they could at least get a few spare iron man suits or something, but no, they have to do this the hard way. Connected universes can be silly like that sometimes.Rafael Vega is the hot-headed leader of the group, jumping into trouble head first and bringing the rest of the group with him. He's a lover as well as a fighter, and will stick with them through any challenge to the end. In many other groups he'd be the Lancer to a more moderate leader, but I suppose you can't follow the sentai formula perfectly every time or stories would get really boring and predictable. Slag (not to be confused with the triceratops dinobot from transformers) is the big tough guy who's also surprisingly erudite and well-read. A subversion that's almost as frequent as the number of times they play it straight. It's easy to get some peace and quiet to read when all the other kids are too intimidated to bully you. Sharon is the token girl. She was born to run and not belong to anyone. She doesn't need to be loved by you. Wait, no, that's Miley Cyrus. Easy mistake to make when they don't seem to have much personality of their own. Wheels Wolinski is the token disabled guy, which is still one more than most groups like this manage. He's the gadgeteer of the group, solving problems with wits where brute force fails. Don't underestimate the damage a rocket-propelled wheelchair can do to a monster."Slippery Sam" Weltsmerz is (or was, as apparently he's dead at the time of writing) the rogue of the group, doing the stealth, disguise and fast-talking needed to get into places and distract attention from the others. They all seem pretty well suited to a saturday morning cartoon adaption.</blockquote>

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