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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5498158" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 226: February 1996part 4/8Rifts is now up to 11 world books. Just how many more can they come up with? It's a big world out there, after all. Miniature player character record sheets: Well, this is a turn-up. Normally, when they give us extra character sheets, they're longer than the standard one. Some can go up to 4, maybe even 6 pages in complex and highly customised systems. Maybe that isn't what you want though. Maybe you want a sheet that cuts out all the stuff that isn't relevant for your class, thus allowing it to actually be smaller. So yeah, three little sheets, one for fighters, one for rogues and one for spellcasters. Enjoy. Not a bad idea, but one of those cases where there just isn't much to say. Keep it up. Forum: Tim Nutting reminds people that if they have a problem with their game, discussing it with their DM and other players will be more likely to solve it than writing to the forum and waiting several months for your letter to be printed and maybe get replies. I'm not going to argue with that at all. Eyal Teler moves into using e-mail. He again recommends the turnabout is fair play method of dealing with annoying players. Do as you would be done by is a lesson everyone should learn. Ryan Leach thinks that DM's ought to try and make new players particularly welcome rather than the opposite. Mind you don't get patronising though. Eleanor Clarke gives her experiences with sexism, which haven't been too bad. But if you do encounter it, exploit it, instead of getting intimidated. People trying to chat you up are particularly vulnerable to all kinds of subtle humiliations. And then you wonder why we get shy and bitter. William Valentine is another guy who just shrugs at the fact that not many women are interested in roleplaying. It might be nice to have a few more, but it's not worth stressing about. Rogues gallery: A dwarf who wears nothing but armor? Oh dear. I'm sure that's meant to sound badass, but it actually sounds hilarious. What, nothing at all underneath it? And he will wear nothing but armour until he finds or avenges his family. Can you say chilly and chafing. Well, it keeps you looking brooding and the smell will keep you a loner. So yeah, this month's character is a fail simply because it's so cliched and unintentionally funny. Did no-one spot that, or did they put it in precisely for that reason. It's certainly a very sharp step downwards from last month. I do wonder what they'll try and serve us next. Network news: Another PSA from the RPGA, as they try and expand their user base. This time, it's by explaining how you get an official RPGA presence at your convention, and encouraging smaller conventions around the world to write to them and request permission to run official adventures. A lot of recruits are made via people playing a con game casually, and then getting hooked on the idea of tapping into a wider world of gamers. So the idea of getting more people on the ground seems a rather good one. Build things from grass-roots support, instead of just bombarding us with adverts (especially when they don't have the money for regular TV ads anyway) Once again it seems like this is one department of the company that has it's head screwed on straight, while around them is much flailing. I'd be pleased to see them succeed.</blockquote>

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