Curmudgeon in the Cellar **168**

Wherein I share thoughts on the following: preserving the mystery; creating scrolls; why polyhedra? RPG's and gaming as depicted on TV and in movies; which way is up again?; Pogo; no better get-together than a tavern?; the abhorrence of half-monsters; Race as class-- a colossal load of horseshit; achieving gameplay and game balance through certain limitations; Empire of the Petal Throne-- a colossal vanity project that burned TSR; Gary's "secret house rules.