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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8346272" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 63: September 1991part 1/535 pages. When your neck is thicker than your head, what are you doing with all that bulk. The amount you can eat or breathe is still limited by the size of the openings up the top. Plus those scales look like they seriously hinder flexibility. This kind of thing is why lizards get outcompeted by mammals in many ecological niches. When you can get up earlier, stay up later, and squeeze into smaller spaces, that makes up for the difference in strength and resilience quite effectively. Let's see what plot ideas lie within, and if they're best solved with brute force or brains. Bookwyrms: Unsurprisingly given the cover, their promotional article is a Dark Sun one. Get ready for the pleasantly alliterative sounding Prism Pentad. Unlike many of their series, where they have multiple authors trading off the same characters so they can publish the overall story faster, making it much easier for tonal or continuity issues to slip in, this is going to be entirely from the pen of Troy Denning. His Forgotten Realms work has proven popular enough that they're giving him much freer rein to make sweeping, permanent changes to the setting as a whole based on what the characters do in his books. They may wind up regretting this, mainly due to the overall TSR code of conduct mandating happy endings to all their stories, which means they can't help making Athas a less grim & messed up place over time and ruining the original mood. Expanding the map could somewhat mitigate that, but then raised the question of why there were so few sorcerer-kings, all clustered in one tiny part of the world, how they managed to exterminate all their respective species worldwide (or even if they did, or just did a few thousand miles before getting bored), and then decided to just ignore the rest of the world again. Once again this shows the flaw in your worldbuilding consisting mostly of getting Brom to draw a bunch of fukken awesome heavy metal album covers, and then deciding how they fit together into a coherent geography & history afterwards. It's more superficially impressive than the Forgotten Realms, but built on shakier foundations, and that'll catch up with them in a few years. Oh well, it's still a fun read, and there's plenty to be learned from their mistakes. It's good to go through it again from another slightly different perspective. Notes from HQ: This month's actual play stories are some more decidedly whimsical ones from ConnCon, Connecticut's finest. The featured tournament had the PC's sent on a mission to bake a cake for grandma. (yes, she's all of their grandmother, must have been pretty busy back in the day <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" /> ) In a fit of insanity, Jean decided to use all three recipes that featured in the module at once to bake a real cake for the writer as thanks. The result …… definitely had a lot of flavour. Fortunately, there were hundreds of attendees, so no-one had to consume enough of it to kill them. Well, this seems like the kind of silliness people will definitely remember, and hopefully come back next year to see more of. Another reminder that they don't cover LARP stuff as much as they could. It is odd in hindsight just how little TSR tapped into that quite lucrative potential market, avoiding it for stupid ideological reasons. They are still trying to improve their coverage on non TSR tabletop RPG's though, with the latest competition being Megatraveller gadgets. Let's hope people submit some suitably inventive things, and not just bigger, badder lasers. Al in all, things seem to be going pretty well here.</blockquote>

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