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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8458304" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 79: January 1993:part 1/532 pages. A misty arctic scenario is about to be made much worse for the people wandering it by a remorhaz. You might be temporarily saved from frostbite, but if it melts the ground below you then you're in a short race between being scooped up for dinner and hypothermia. Presuming they're bothering to track any of this, and it's not just a mindless combat encounter in whatever railroad they've cooked up for us this month. Time to see what potential rewards braving the winter has to offer.Notes From HQ: Ah joy. It's one of those occasions where a company does something wildly unpopular, and is forced to back down, only to try and implement the same thing more circumspectly. After many years of saying they want to support other RPG's than AD&D in the RPGA, but not managing more than a small minority of other adventures, they were planning to give up & drop support for non TSR properties entirely. People absolutely hated that idea! So instead, they've merely outsourced the sanctioning of adventures by other companies to said company, forcing them to have an active RPGA liaison if they want to have tournament games count for anything, which rules out all the small companies where everyone's doing this part time. (and adhere to the TSR code of conduct as well, which rules out White Wolf games from being played in the RPGA despite their popularity) The kind of thing that seems likely to have a long term chilling effect on diversity, and accomplish their original intention, just a few years later than they'd originally planned. It's always frustrating when a company shows they have no idea what their userbase wants, and do something self-sabotaging in the pursuit of greater profit. From New Coke to the great Tumblr porn purge, history is littered with examples of this, some walked back, others pursued to the bitter end. Well, that's a pretty depressing way to start the year off. Their bad decisions extend beyond the casual racism and excess of bad comedy railroads. I have a feeling we're going to see quite a few more of them between now and the WotC takeover.Letters: The first two letters are from recipients of their charity benefit tournaments. In the cruel world of USA medical expenses, every little helps. But even if it saves some individual lives, it doesn't solve the larger scale structural problems. This is why gofundme becomes one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms in the world. It's not that individual people lack compassion, but individual donations pale in efficiency compared to a properly funded national health service. The third one is one of the many people angry about them trying to drop non TSR tournament adventures. Since they gave their response the page before, this feels like the wrong way around. Another casualty of the nonlinear publication production process locking certain things in long before others.</blockquote>

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