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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8283176" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 56: Nov/Dec 1990part 5/5Word Search: As is often the case with festive issues, they fill a page with your basic word search packed with D&D terms and creatures. No particularly clever format, just a big square with words hidden horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Another familiar thing that'll fill maybe an hour or so at most if you really want to find everything listed. At least they got it in on time this year. Gen Con 1990: Another reliable returnee after the big conventions is a couple of pages of photographs where we actually get to see the people behind the newszine, along with the competition winners and a few of the most outrageously dressed other attendees. Like many of the production values, these have definitely increased in quality, so we can actually see things like hair and clothing texture properly. 1990 is still a long way from the present in terms of fashion choices. A mildly interesting historical footnote that reminds us how much everyday things have changed in the past 30 years. The GEnie Unleashed: We finish off with a single-pager that gives RPGA members in the USA a special offer to get online, communicate with people all over the country and enjoy TSR's services more cheaply. They're still charging several dollars an hour, but at least that's better than charging by the minute. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Another reminder that the internet was growing at an exponential rate while coming down in cost year on year back then, but still has a long way to go in terms of ubiquity and convenience. It's longer and harder to get from zero to a million regular users than it is to get from a million to nearly every potential customer, because that's how word of mouth exponential growth works. In the meantime, it's pretty likely that there'll be several more years of articles like this, that are aimed at people who have no idea at all that online communication via computer even exists yet. Another mildly interesting historical footnote. Wolff & Byrd give us some suitably festive poetry wherein the ghost of St Nicolas bemoans what's happened to the old festival in his name. A case even they're reluctant to take on, for not only would it be hard to win, but how would you enforce the judgement on the whole world if you did?An issue that somehow has both more than it's usual share of useful, significant articles, but also silly humor and tiny inconsequential ones as well. Still, that means plenty of variety overall, which is welcome. Time to see what trajectory the next year will follow in turn.</blockquote>

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