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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8854508" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 127: December 1997part 4/5The Day Of Grace: The cover story is actually pretty short, a single page, system free bit of plot hookery. Once upon a time, the Lady of Pain didn't kill a little girl who went up to her and talked to her. This was such an out of character event that they made the anniversary of it a regular celebration where people are supposed to be nicer than usual (which some factions are better at than others) and they have a big parade in the Lady's Ward. Easy enough to incorporate into your game, this reminds us that Sigil might be a big city filled with flavour, but that isn't it's primary purpose and everything that happens there is a sideshow to the inscrutable agenda of the Lady. She's obviously not a completely uncaring monster, given how often she mazes people who trouble her rather than just killing them, but if she felt like it, she could just get rid of everyone like you'd fumigate a bug-infested house and that has to inspire some existential dread in the smarter inhabitants. Being a bit superstitious seems an entirely rational reaction under the circumstances. If you want the planes to remain more than just bigger, weirder dungeons to delve it's important to keep some of that cosmic sense of scale in your campaign.Winter Fantasy: They put the preregistration form for winter fantasy in last issue. Now it's time to promote it again with basically the same information, but this time in prose form for those of you who find it easier to digest that way.  Tournaments slots have been reduced to 3 per day with 2 hour gaps between, so you don't have to choose between maxing out your gaming time and seeing the various seminars, special events and awards ceremony. See the previews for their upcoming releases such as Alternity and the new Marvel Super Heroes game. Find out if you've got what it takes to play Magic: the Gathering professionally. That would have been lower on the bill if it appeared at all under TSR management. There might be further changes to come, but it looks like they'll be trying to maintain their special relationship with this convention for now.Decath10n: Despite all the challenges it's faced, they're still going to do another decathlon next year. But as they're in a generally more experimental mood, they're going to do some revisions to try and boost engagement. They gradually added on categories over the years until you had way more than 10 options to choose from, many of which hardly got any entrants at all. Now they're slimming it down to just 3 writing events, three service events, and any 4 tournaments out of the many they're running throughout the year. None of that option paralysis, just enter all 10 of them if you want a decent shot at winning. Another little sign that WotC is going to be a lot more happy to dramatically change things to make them profitable, and willing to cut them entirely if they still don't work. Will the decathlons still be going come the start of the next millennium? Like the membership drives, it's definitely something to keep an eye on over the course of the year.</blockquote>

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