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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8728973" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 114: December 1995part 5/5On Your Mark: Another year, another round of their now traditional decathlons, encouraging clubs to compete at events which will build up the RPGA. The basic details remain the same, there are far more than 10 events that you can participate in, but you'll only get points for 10 of them. The weighting has been shifted around a bit from previous years. Up to 4 tournaments as before, but the max number of writing events you can enter has been reduced to 5, so you have to enter at least one service event as well, and there are considerably more options in that field. Evidently not enough groups were even trying to do those, so they want to make it clear how important they are to the health of the RPGA as a whole. Will you go for most new members recruited, most sanctioned tournaments, most tournament rounds run or most money raised for charity? Don't think it's an impossible challenge to win, because only 16 of their hundred-odd clubs bothered to participate this year. The majority of their users are as apathetic as ever then, despite the chipper attitude they present here. If you participate in a full 10 events you'll definitely be in with decent odds. What shall we play?: Last issue they listed the Living tournaments currently fresh off the presses. Now they do all the other tournaments for various campaign worlds in alphabetical form. 38 generic adventures, 5 Forgotten Realms, 5 Dark Sun, 4 Ravenloft, 3 Al-Qadim, 1 Spelljammer, 1 Masque of the Red Death, 1 Red Steel, 1 Council of Wyrms, 1 Planescape, 1 Celtic. Another of those snapshots of how popular various settings are with writers & conventiongoers, and your odds of finding a group who wants to play the same thing. Good luck trying to hunt down any of these now, with their tiny print runs. Another fairly slow issue with a fair bit of repetition as they continue to try and reorganise their living settings and make the changes stick. But the resurgence of Dragonlance is fairly interesting, as are some of the other bits of worldbuilding, so they are still making progress. Let's see if they can get over the hump, or next year will slow down even further as things fall apart for TSR.</blockquote>

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