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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8531949" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 89: November 1993part 3/5The Enigma Revealed: In issue 77, we were given an image of a woman with a half-corrupted face and told to come up with stats & backstory. It's taken a full year, but at least they have got enough submissions to give us results, unlike, say, their attempt at a Living Gamma World location. Unsurprisingly, first place does go to a Gamma World entry though. She has empathic mutations and hides the deformed side of her face with a veil made of living vines, which is intelligent and has some pretty powerful mutations of it's own. She's the local leader of The Free Ones, trying to keep her town from being subjugated by the Miacholin empire. While still a good guy overall, she's becoming increasingly bitter and suspicious of outsiders as more and more people are lost to the fight. She could end up as an ally or enemy, depending on how your first impressions go. Second place is more interesting, as it's for Vampire the Masquerade, and extra surprisingly, doesn't make her a Nosferatu, but a Malkavian instead. Since Dragon never did any White Wolf articles at all, that is nice to see. She's an opera singer who was scarred and then embraced by a jealous Malkavian who was also an ex-opera singer, because if there's one thing vampires do, it's pass on their traumas down through the centuries. Now she's essentially a genderflipped phantom of the opera, lurking in the building she used to sing centrestage, doing the odd bit of mysterious mentoring and making sure the place doesn't go out of business and get demolished. Once again, she's relatively nice, but also prone to delusions, which means it's not definite that she'll be on the side of the PC's, and something seemingly innocuous could set her off even if she starts off friendly. Fortunately, she hasn't spent any XP on combat skills at all, so even a starting level group could beat her in a fight. That is unusual, and reminds us how much more of a socially focussed game Masquerade is compared to D&D. Will this be enough of a foothold for them to do any more White Wolf articles, or just a one-off? Either way, it's a very welcome bit of diversity here.</blockquote>

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