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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8757375" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 117: March 1996part 5/5Decathalon Update: They've got the final results in for the 1995 decathlon, and the new one is just getting going. The ARC Fellowship were the winners, taking the lead by being the only group to even try at the Most Sanctioned Tournaments category, while the Players guild of central Oklahoma and the DOGS take silver & bronze. The whole thing winds up demonstrating again how few people participate in this thing, with only one or two entries for many of the events, and none at all for the multi-round non-AD&D tournament category. The RPGA just isn't big enough to have that many tiers of further hardcoreness within it and many of the things the admins would like to do in an ideal world simply don't get enough volunteers to run the events. Will that ever change? Probably not this year with the other big things we know are going to go wrong.The Raven's Bluff Trumpeter: After the big battle last month, the newspaper counts the casualties. Nearly all their big ships and 400 sailors in the sea battle, and over 700 people against the land assault. Both the mayor and deputy mayor fought on the front lines and sustained injuries in the process as well. This means they're frantically trying to rebuild and find new troops as fast as possible, stepping up the calls for adventurers to sign up as mercenaries or city watch. They've also asked the neighbouring city-states for help. Tantras has decided to keep all their troops for their own defence, while Procampur is nice enough to help out. The leaders'll definitely remember that next time either of those are in trouble. On the plus side, the enemy lost nearly twice as many, but given humanoid breeding rates that might not be a good enough ratio in a lengthy war of attrition. Time for heroes to step up and make a difference! So this is their obvious pearl harbor moment, when everyone is temporarily united against an external enemy, and even if they're not quite organised and equipped enough to strike back yet, the war machine is grinding into action. Neutrality is no longer an option! At least, that's the theory. Just how omnipresent was the metaplot at the time at conventions? Did your PC's get involved, or wander off and keep on doing their own thing? An issue that sees them heading full steam into making their settings bigger, more complex and more metaplotty, even as TSR starts to crumble behind the scenes. Despite a few complaining letters from people who would prefer to go back to the old school in the other magazines, the staff are too invested now to dial it back, and if anything are doubling down, trying to get more stuff out faster and squeeze more money out of the hardcore fans in the hope of keeping things from going off the cliff a little longer. The tension is really ratcheting up. What will be next to go or change in their attempts to turn the tide next issue?</blockquote>

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