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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9090255" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron issue 144: October 2000part 6/6Web Wanderings: Internet 101 decides that we’re all probably familiar with the basics by now and rebrands, but the format remains pretty much the same. We’re off to explore the wild! Of course, small map sites have been thoroughly superceded by google maps so the link rot is strong in this one. easynet’s personal profiles are long gone. mungopark.com now redirects to an expedia booking link for the place. herper.com sends an invalid response. fuse.net still exists as a legacy email client in the same way that hotmail has now been incorporated into outlook, but the personal websites on it are gone and the trademark taken by the european attempt to promote nuclear fusion. Only the Byrd Polar Research Center still exists, and even there the website address has completely changed. This turns out to be one of the least useful entries in the series yet. Thoroughly frustrating.On The Trail: Our final UK import is the convention recaps column. This is suitably international, covering not only the original Gen Con, but also their UK and Benelux branches, which are staggered enough that you could visit all three if you had the finances. Unsurprisingly, getting to play 3e for the first time was the big draw in all of them, but there were still plenty of attendees for the 2e Living City Stuff, the LARP hybrid Living Death and entirely different systems like Ork!, Hero Wars and Warhammer. The UK gamers were particularly fond of their Vampire:tM stuff, while the european ones had a particularly impressive set of Pokemon tournaments & trading area, but all were massive and very positively received, although the Benelux one was only 2 days compared to the full weekend+ of the other two. Not a huge amount to comment on here, but it’s good to see the overall number of attendees continues to grow in all of these countries. The survey pays particular attention to making the formatting look stylish, with the writing switching from white to black at just the right point to maintain readability against the background gradient. Since knowing if they got this one right or not is extra important to them, everyone who fills in a survey has a chance to win a copy of the new Forgotten Realms monster compendium. Some of the blandly positive promotional stuff is quite irritating, but otherwise this is a solid step up from the old newszine in both production values and proportion of useful crunchy stuff, while not completely abandoning non D&D material like Dragon has. I know this incarnation won’t last long, but let’s hope it keeps up this kind of showing while it does.</blockquote>

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