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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9141189" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 147: July 2001part 1/664 (47) pages: Another reminder that druids have even more leeway to be ruthless and bloody without losing their powers this edition, and can make very effective and creepy villains for a story by clever use of said powers. The hills have eyes, the corn sees all, and you’d better not go down to the woods today because they can wildshape into every bear that ever there was. Time to see just how wild this issue will get, and if they’ll still have a printing press to recount their story at the end of it.Network News: The Living City conversions have hit another hurdle. They screwed up a lot of the magic item certificates and had to do a big revision of them, which means they have to send the new versions out at considerable expense. They’re making progress with the custom prestige classes for the various knightly orders, but there’s also a ton of other ones appearing in new supplements every month that they have to look over and decide whether to sanction or not. Can they keep up? Can they also restart the other projects like a mailing list or the Trumpeter’s IC news?Elsewhere, things are a lot more positive. They’re starting up their first 3rd party d20 campaign, Living Arcanis, courtesy of Paradigm Concepts. Looking ahead, that runs until 2009 under 3e rules and then got relaunched using their own system, so it must have gathered enough of a fanbase of it’s own to be self-sustaining. They also have a big graph of the number of RPGA scenarios ordered each year, which shows just how much their growth has accelerated in the past couple of years. The various international recaps are also pretty cheerful and show how many new people are joining, although the european one is so busy that their entry feels dashed off at the last minute. Overall it paints much the same picture as last time, they’re trying to do more things for more people, but getting less money from WotC due to the pokemon crash at the same time and eventually, something is going to give. What will wind up on the chopping block first when they finally decide to make those hard cuts?Letters to the Editor: First letter is very pleased with how the living greyhawk journal is making Oerth accessible to newbies and very much hopes they’ll do the same for Krynn. They do a bit of it in the latest Dungeon, but you’ll have to wait a few more years for a comprehensive 3e version. Second thinks the setting detail in the Creature Collection is awesome and defends it against any naysayers. It’s not just the individual creatures, it’s the picture it paints of the world when you put them together. TSR would never have the courage to go this gross with their monsters and it’s nice to see a less sanitised D&D world. Third is decidedly annoyed at how inaccurate many of the conversions were in the lengthy list of magic items last issue. Yeah, they’re not happy with how that’s going either. Even with the year long delay, this has all been a big rush job. So much to do, so little time, not enough oversight of all the different people doing the converting. Now they’re going to need to redo big chunks of it, taking even longer. What a nuisance. Fourth is annoyed that they’re moving not only the location of Gen Con, but also the timing. Doing it late August means some people are already going back to school, meaning a lot of people who could attend easily before will now struggle, given how few vacation days most american jobs allow. If they want to stay the biggest, they should keep it accessible to kids and college students. Finally, someone asking if they plan to do a digital archive of old Polyhedrons like they did Dragon. They learnt the hard way about second-use publication rights with that, so they aren’t likely to try that again any time soon. Any complete digital collections will only be found on the open seas for the foreseeable future and it’ll be quite some time before there’s even one of those.</blockquote>

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