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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8523879" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 88: October 1993part 1/536 pages. One giant step for mankind looks like it'll be the last step for a man, as astronauts are about to meet a new world's natives and they don't seem friendly. That can definitely be scary, when you're billions of miles from home and no help could reach you in time even if your transmission gets out. Time to see what challenges are in this issue, and if they'll be a fair CR rating for the PC's.Shatterzone Alien Contest: West End Games sponsors another contest for a game that's hasn't appeared in here before. Shatterzone is their new sci-fi setting that uses a variant of the Torg rules. What weird alien races are out there, waiting to be discovered? Winners get to appear in an official sourcebook! (provided you're willing to sign over all copyright to the company, as is standard for work for hire.) Can you come up with something iconic like Githyanki or Slaad that subsequent writers will build upon in the future? I should probably see if I can get hold of the book and find out how it turned out.Notes From HQ: Last issue, they stepped up the enforcement of what items you can own and checking where you got them from, but it was only mentioned in a small note at the end of the issue. This time, they're making it very clear in the editorial. If you cheat on your character sheet, or play the same adventure multiple times at different conventions to grind more stuff easily, they will catch you, and you will face the consequences. The vast majority of players aren't doing this, but if they don't root out the bad apples, it'll spoil the fun for everyone else, and the bigger the RPGA gets, the more these things need to be consistently enforced. At least the RPGA is still growing, unlike Dragon's readership, and the number of people regularly attending conventions is also up again this year, with Dragoncon in particular setting a new records for number of tournament games run over the weekend.  So a mixed bag of positive and negative news this issue, but at least it's all fairly interesting. Things could be going much worse for them.</blockquote>

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