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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9147312" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 147: July 2001part 6/6Web Wanderings: Time for another round of links submitted by readers to test and see which have survived. The website of the Chateau de Rochebaron is still around and being updated, but the internal links have changed and weirdly, it’s lost it’s english language version. I guess we can just use google translate on whole webpages now so why make the effort? Wanadoo has long since rebranded as Orange, so anything on their old site is gone. Crime.com is also gone without replacement, which is odd as I’d expect such an obvious website name to at least have a domain squatter on it. Still, as it was owned by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and features things that would be blatantly illegal in themselves under modern data protection laws like a 24 hour livestream of the jail cells (roll up, roll up, get your real-time police brutality here!) that’s probably for the best. The White Sands Missile Range army base website is still around, as is google.com, of course. (even if many features other than the search engine have been started, then scrapped in the intervening time) <a href="http://www.city-gallery.com" target="_blank">www.city-gallery.com</a> is still technically alive, but says it’s down for maintenance. Looking on the wayback machine, it’s been that way since early 2018, which means whoever owns it has been paying to keep the domain name but never actually getting round to fixing it for more than 5 years now. What a waste. Plenty more interesting tidbits of internet history to be gleaned from following up these links, but not a whole lot of stuff useful for your game remaining at the end. They’ve definitely had better months.On The Trail: This also follows it’s familiar formula of four little convention recaps from around the globe. Ok, it’s only the UK & USA this time but at least they’re still trying. Battlemasters in Loughborough obviously specialises in the competitive PvP part of RPG’s and wargaming, but they are adding some Living tournaments as well now for those that prefer working together. Between the big games, the small games, the computer games and the freely flowing cheap alcohol people had plenty of fun despite most of them being killed repeatedly. (There can only be one grand winner of each tournament, after all) The UK Student National Championships in Leicester was also firmly focussed on scoring high in the various events, but as teams rather than individuals. They gamed hard, partied hard, then got up and did it all again the next day in a way that has our chronicler feeling thoroughly geriatric. Like Eurovision, the winner has to host it the next year, so it’ll be moving to Bangor in Wales next time. Let’s hope they have the budget and space for it. Over in the USA, they cover the debut of Con2001 in Reno. Thankfully there was no shooting a man just to watch him die, but they did get to premiere a significant bit of Raven’s Bluff metaplot. It got fewer attendees than they’d hoped for, but that’s usually the way when you run something for the first time. You have to do lots of promoting and build up a reputation if you want consistent and growing attendance. Ben Con in Colorado was somewhat busier, but still not so much that it was overwhelming. Their unique selling point is that nearly all the games are charity ones, so the tournaments you pick also determine which good cause you’re supporting. It’s cheap to get in, but some people definitely spend a lot here as the big cause raised over $10,000. There’s still plenty of differences in style between conventions so make sure you pick the ones that fit you best.A fairly average issue, with some good articles, but a greater proportion of boring formulaic ones. It feels like they’ve settled into another familiar rhythm that they could keep up for years, and only in hindsight would you know that’s not going to be the case at all. Time to head on to the final issue before the big merger and see how much of a shock that is to everyone involved.</blockquote>

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