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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9221732" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 92/151: May/Jun 2002part 8/12Convention Scene: This concentrates entirely on this year’s Winter Fantasy. As usual, it was packed with RPGA content of all kinds, plus the summit where they discuss their future directions. All the usual regional restrictions for Living Greyhawk were off, letting people play adventures set anywhere. Similarly Living City brought back a whole load of old adventures from all across 2e, now converted to 3e and ready to challenge your characters all over again. Living Force also had a massive Interactive that attracted a lot of cosplayers. The other Living settings aren’t mentioned but I’m sure each of them had at least one adventure scheduled at some point over the weekend. They’re not going to pretend they haven’t had problems recently, but it’s not going to stop the show going on. Nothing particularly surprising here. Spelljammer - Shadow of the Spider Moon: The intro is pretty short this time, getting us straight through the credits and tone-setting (which they already did a fair bit of in the editorial anyway) so they can get to the mechanics. Andy Collins is the main person to praise/blame for the writing this time, with Scott Schomberg on art and Erik doing the editing as usual. He wants to concentrate on the age of piracy IIIINNN SPAAAAACEEEE swashbuckling action over the gnomes, hamsters and hippo-men. Well, as we saw just a few pages ago, pirates are in fashion this year so why not. They have a reliable subscriber base and will be doing something different next issue anyway so it’s not as if they’re competing with all those other d20 supplements for sales.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 9221732, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 92/151: May/Jun 2002[/u][/b] part 8/12 Convention Scene: This concentrates entirely on this year’s Winter Fantasy. As usual, it was packed with RPGA content of all kinds, plus the summit where they discuss their future directions. All the usual regional restrictions for Living Greyhawk were off, letting people play adventures set anywhere. Similarly Living City brought back a whole load of old adventures from all across 2e, now converted to 3e and ready to challenge your characters all over again. Living Force also had a massive Interactive that attracted a lot of cosplayers. The other Living settings aren’t mentioned but I’m sure each of them had at least one adventure scheduled at some point over the weekend. They’re not going to pretend they haven’t had problems recently, but it’s not going to stop the show going on. Nothing particularly surprising here. Spelljammer - Shadow of the Spider Moon: The intro is pretty short this time, getting us straight through the credits and tone-setting (which they already did a fair bit of in the editorial anyway) so they can get to the mechanics. Andy Collins is the main person to praise/blame for the writing this time, with Scott Schomberg on art and Erik doing the editing as usual. He wants to concentrate on the age of piracy IIIINNN SPAAAAACEEEE swashbuckling action over the gnomes, hamsters and hippo-men. Well, as we saw just a few pages ago, pirates are in fashion this year so why not. They have a reliable subscriber base and will be doing something different next issue anyway so it’s not as if they’re competing with all those other d20 supplements for sales. [/QUOTE]

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