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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8243396" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 52: March 1990part 1/532 pages. Riding a wolf while blowing a horn with a skull on the end? That's definitely worthy of going on a heavy metal album cover. Preferably coloured in, but budgetary limitations will always be with us. Let's see if they'll manage to produce interesting material inside despite their small size and budget this time around. Notes From HQ: Just like their sister magazines, Polyhedron has to deal with it's share of people who don't pay attention and write in wondering who's in charge, or addressing it to people who have long since moved on. It's right there next to the page of contents every issue! Are you blind or something?! A reminder that they're all working in the same offices, and what affects one affects all of them, so certain topics are going to pop up repeatedly in quick succession. They also once again have to repeat their criteria for articles, and that there's a membership drive currently on. Please participate! Let's hope people are paying attention to those at least, and they won't have to repeat themselves again on these topics for a while, because this repetition definitely grows boring for me. Letters: The first letter is the usual mix of praise and criticism. Nice dingbats. Shame there aren't more variety of them. Are they Mac? Why yes, as it turns out. You do have a keen eye for typography. The other one is an unexpected dose of reality, asking them to officially sponsor the Red Cross this Gen Con. Unfortunately they're already locked in to another charity providing hearing dogs for deaf people this year, but don't let that stop you from donating as individuals to whatever charity you choose. Every little helps, but do your research and choose wisely, as some places provide a lot more actual help for your buck than others.Bookwyrms: Wait, isn't this a Dragon column? :checks: Ah, not until 1996, which means Polyhedron had it first. I guess the pun was just so good that they couldn't resist promoting it to the magazine with a larger audience. The topic is also something that Dragon will do, but not until a few years later. An interview with R. A. Salvadore, currently just discovering that Drizzt is more popular than the main protagonist of his first trilogy, and shifting the focus of his next one accordingly. As he isn't yet one of their biggest cash cows, he still has the freedom to experiment with writing about other characters, and find time to actually game, which is the whole reason he got into this in the first place. Unsurprisingly given his creation of a dark-skinned protagonist, he's very much in favour of social justice stuff like racial equality, fighting religious oppression and standing up to bullies, and makes a point of this repeatedly throughout the interview. Hopefully what he writes can inspire a few other people to do the same. This is all surprisingly relevant to the modern day. The battle of heroism vs cynicism is eternal, as is having to argue that more diverse protagonists can sell to the suits even when you can point to multiple successful examples. Even if you win once, the next generation has to learn the same lessons all over again. The best you can hope for is to record and pass down your knowledge so they learn a little quicker.</blockquote>

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