Polyhedron Revival?

[Glyfair]

Did I miss an announcment (or even a rumor)?

On Rich Burlew's homepage ( http://www.giantitp.com/ ), he mentions Polyhedron is going to be revived as an electronic magazine. This is the first I've heard of this.

Ready for an announcement? The RPGA, the organized play division of Wizards of the Coast, has contracted yours truly to create a new comic strip for their soon-to-be-revived newsletter, Polyhedron. Now, this version will be entirely electronic, arriving via email to existing members. The new comic, a fully hand-drawn and computer colored strip called "Five Foot Steps", follows the exploits of a group of gamers as they play their weekly sessions at fictional Rollmoore College. New strips will appear in every other edition of the biweekly newsletter, but ONLY RPGA members will get it! So you should sign up for membership as soon as possible if you want to see Five Foot Steps, because the first issue will hit members' inboxes around the middle of the month (or so I am told).

 

[Mouseferatu]

I hadn't heard this, but it makes sense. Polyhedron had a loyal fanbase, and while they weren't buying in sufficient numbers to support the magazine as it was, the overhead on electronic products is several orders of magnitude lower.

I was never that big a fan of Poly myself, but I'd love to see this succeed.

 

[Mark]

"Five Foot Steps", follows the exploits of a group of gamers as they play their weekly sessions at fictional Rollmoore College

Funny.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I'd love to see Polyhedron make a comeback. I fiully enjoyed the Dungeon/Poly Flip book format and was sad when it went away. I hope we will continue to see mini-campaigns.

 

[MonsterMash]

I'd love to see Polyhedron make a comeback. I fiully enjoyed the Dungeon/Poly Flip book format and was sad when it went away. I hope we will continue to see mini-campaigns.

I liked some of the mini-campaigns too, so add me to the ones welcoming it back.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

Poly makes me jolly!

 

[MrFilthyIke]

As it is electric, I don't know if it'll game mini-campaigns. That's a serious download, and I know there are people still on dialup. I suspect it'll be more of a newsletter (that IMO of course).

 

[JoeGKushner]

Be interesting to see the final format for it. Pyramid has had an online presence for years and it's inexpensiveness, couped with no art and bad layout via HTML, make it something for some and not everyone. That doesn't count the Traveller web mag either.

 

[Bagpuss]

Its more likely to be more like the pre-dungeon version of Polyhedron, with some news and reviewers of stuff going on in the RPGA and Roleplaying scene in general. I certainly don't expect mini-games. Although I expect it to be more D20 and WotC focused based on the way the RPGA has just become another marketing tool for WotC rather than supporting gamers in general as it use to do.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Polyhedron should have gone this route long ago. Now it will sink or swim (rightly) based on the support of its core fanbase.