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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9000249" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 137: July 1999part 5/5Recipe for Mutiny: Like last issue, the adventure this time is a single encounter that's designed to liven up a dull bit in a session rather than filling a whole one. The PC's are on a ship voyage when the first mate tries to pull a Starscream and take over. He'll spend several days trying to butter you up, then make his move when crisis strikes. Will you join him or defend the proper chain of command? Either way, it's your basic low level brawl between a bunch of fighty types plus a single spellcaster, where you probably don't want to kill all your enemies whichever side you choose otherwise getting back to land'll be a nightmare. If you break out your unarmed combat rules, grappling or magical immobilisation effects it'll probably go better for you long run. A pretty decent little idea that makes sure it puts names and basic descriptions to all the NPC's so you can get to know them and find out why each picks the side they do, maybe influence the ones that are on the fence. The amount of use you get out of this will be proportional to how long you can string out the roleplaying bit beforehand, so they actually get to know all the various crew members and maybe have some actual attachment to them, making them less likely to go full murderhobo regardless of the consequences. Overall, this one definitely falls on the usable end of the quality spectrum.Living City Campaign Update: For a good 4 years now, they've refused to put downtime rules into the Living City despite them being a big part of Threads of Legend, saying it would be too much work. Looks like they've finally found someone willing to take on that task. Here's how it's going to work. You can not engage with them at all, in which case you can continue to participate in as many tournaments as you can afford to attend, but not do any downtime stuff. Or you can have 73 fiveday slots, and each adventure & downtime thing you do will consume a certain number of them. Once you've used your whole allocation for the year, you can't do anything else with that character until next year, as all their time is now accounted for. Seems simple enough. Will it turn out that way in practice, and will they have the usual headaches chasing up people who don't do their paperwork properly? As usual, commentary from people who were there at the time and have actual experience using this system is extra welcome. Not a very impressive themed section this time, but plenty of other useful bits and pieces to make up for it, plus the living city continues to develop in an interesting way. But how long will that continue, since there's a certain big announcement coming up at Gen Con next month. Let's see how they report on that in here and how people react, plus whatever other tournamenty fun they also included over the course of the weekend.</blockquote>

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