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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8439365" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 76: October 1992part 2/5Letters: The first letter thinks that Raven's Bluff has too many merchants with class levels, and that dungeons with lots of traps are just the worst both to design and play through. That's both Sigil and the Tomb of Horrors out as well then. <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=":)" /> Good luck finding a group who agrees with your preferences.The second is from the winner of this year's Glathricon award for outstanding gaming. He's stunned and grateful to get publicly praised in this way. Not sure what the criteria were, but hopefully it was a meaningful competition, and not something decided by nepotism. In any case, the RPGA approve of things like this, and thoroughly encourage other conventions to have their own equivalents. Gives them an easy way to fill page count and get to know people better, if nothing else.Babette: A second contest gets resolved this month, reminding us how busy they've been on that front. In issue 70 they asked us what magical powers the sword wielded by the female barbarian on the front has. The results range in power from the ridiculously dangerous Sword of Babette Maelstrom, capable casting several spells at 45th level and inflicting 200d100 points of damage once per year (and not much less time OOC to roll all that damage <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" /> ), to the Sword of Underwear Snatching, which seems like it would only be of use in a very particular type of campaign now served better by Black Tokyo d20. It's another good example of how Polyhedron gets relatively little editorial oversight compared to their other departments, allowing things that are both mechanically unbalanced and pushing at their code of conduct to slip through. In the middle of these extremes, there are plenty of more reasonable entries though, offering various plusses, often with additional ones against dragons or some other specific monster, and more than a few with personalities of their own. So this article definitely falls into the category of use with caution, as much of it is interestingly bad and there's no balancing for level unless you do so as a DM.</blockquote>

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