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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9085272" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron issue 144: October 2000part 1/668 pages. Well, we’ve finally gone full color here as well, with a quite practically dressed centaur on the cover, although I question his ability to climb the waterfalls immediately behind him. Still, if salmon can make jumps like that there’s probably a way and at least there’ll be no shortage of food for his human or horse sides during the journey. Time to find out how different everything feels in here with the new rules and decor.Before we even get to the articles, we have an advert for the Scarred Lands Creature Collection, reminding us that White Wolf managed to rush that into production before the release of the official Monster Manual. Ok, so the rules editing might not be as good, but at least you get to play something instead of waiting around another month to use enemies other than humans & a few basic animals and this way there’s much more implied setting flavour to the creatures.Network News: You can already see some of the changes they’ve made on the cover and contents pages, but here they’ll explain them again. They’re now a truly international magazine, incorporating the best ideas from the old regional ones, plus a whole load of other tweaks based on all those survey results. Like 3e as a whole, there was a load of focus-grouping and statistical analysis that went into figuring out how to make a better product, not just leaving it up to the whims of a different writer for each chapter, then having a editor force consistency on it post-hoc. They won’t stop listening again now they’ve made all these changes either, honest! Keep on sending in those surveys and letters if you want the newszine to stay as good as it is or get even better. All pretty consistent with their stance in the other magazines, with the exception of continuing non-D&D coverage in the form of Living Seattle and the like. Another very optimistic editorial that I know won’t turn out to be true in the long run, as I see the small number of issues still to go before they merge with Dungeon and completely change their focus. What could have gone so suddenly wrong? I guess I’ll have to keep pressing on and find out.Around the Horn: They continue to push the increasingly international nature of the RPGA by giving each of the branch managers their own little news section. Wes Nicholson talks about the general growth of gaming in New Zealand, some of the differences between gaming elsewhere, and their particular desire to get a Living Dragonquest game going. I’m pretty sure that one isn’t going to happen, unfortunately, given how out of print the game is. Back in the USA, they’re expanding from 11 regional directors to 25, which shows how fast they’ve been expanding and how many more middle managers they need to run things properly. (although it’s still less than the 40-odd they had in the mid 90’s when this was an unpaid position) If you think you’re up to the job, don’t hesitate to apply. The european branch is getting closer to actually covering all european countries, reaching as far as Greece & Russia, although language barriers are still a problem. The UK, Ireland & South African branch continues to expand as well, with Ian Richards still at it’s head and pleased to be able to keep in touch despite ending their newszine as a separate thing. As with the main editorial, these are all firmly optimistic. They’re in full good vibes only mode and any minor troubles arising from the changeover will be swept under the carpet until they become too big to ignore.</blockquote>

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