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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9167351" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 148: October 2001part 1/647(68) pages. When is a man not a man? When they’re composed of multiple smaller men. Better make sure everyone is of one mind, otherwise the body politic could become quite literal. Is this a metaphor for how the RPGA is stronger together, or some kind of all too real fleshy abomination that wants to incorporate the adventurers into it? Perhaps they’re going back to the Planescape city in the Gray Waste that worked like this. Let’s find out if the answer is as interesting as the questions.Network News: So things have gone very wrong; neither Polyhedron nor the LG Journal have been appearing at the frequency they promised at the start of the year. As they said in the previous issue’s editorials, it’s mostly the fault of the Pokemon crash. They’d started taking the flood of money from that for granted, and even though the RPGA itself grew by a fair amount this year, the money it brings in is nowhere near enough to cover everything they want to do. They’ve cut a bunch of jobs, which meant the remaining people working even harder to try and keep up, which didn’t work, mistakes were made because they were rushing so they had to redo big parts of it and now their Living City conversions are even further behind than if they’d just taken their time and done the job properly without going into crunch. So they’re outsourcing the Living City to Ryan Dancey’s Organised Play, Inc. (which obviously doesn’t work very well either, as wiki says it only lasts until 2003, although even more oddly, Sarbreenar goes on until 2008 which means they must have outsourced the UK stuff to an entirely different group of people entirely) They’re getting rid of free memberships, rolling LG Journal into Dragon and Polyhedron into Dungeon, which means you’ll have to figure out what to do with your subscriptions. That seems likely to cause more organisational mess and disgruntlement, but when you’re backed into a corner there’s no good solutions. Will offloading all that get their ongoing workload down to a manageable amount for the remaining staff? Since they go through another radical reorganisation at the end of next year, I’m guessing probably not. There’s no happy ending here, just carrying on in reduced circumstances trying to make the best of what they’ve got. All very depressing to read about. Letters to the Editor: First two letters have exactly the same nitpick, pointing out that there are official 3e draconian stats in the back of a recent novel. You expect them to pay attention to a completely different department in the same company? Surely not?! Third is an australian one complaining that the amount of non D&D material has been way down since the USA & UK Polyhedrons merged. He’s doing the best to be the change he wants to see, but needs more help. Of course, all that is going to be made moot next issue due to the reformatting, although at least their definition of d20 is a bit broader than just D&D. Finally, someone who’s just found out Virtual Seattle exists and is overjoyed. They could stand to mention their smaller Living settings a bit more, so they can find all their potential players.</blockquote>

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