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Knew it was too good to last. 3 people cancelled due to other engagements this sunday, so the session is off. Since they did that in advance rather than simply no-showing I have some faith that this campaign might still continue next week. We shall see.

Things actually went smoothly for a change. All 5 players showed up on time. We didn't manage to finish the adventure yet, but did get through 3 combats over the course of 3 hours, plus a few investigation bits in between before someone had to leave. The number of technical hitches was...

Well, that didn't go too badly. 7 people applied, 4 of which showed up for the first session plus one who said they'd double booked but would be there next week. It was a decidedly motley crew. A duthka'gith spellthief who is nominally in charge, but currently very fragile due to the ECL...

I don't think so, because the distinctive borders around those illustrations don't fit their cover format, but it is really hard to know for sure at that resolution.

Knights of the Lich-Queen is up.

Knights of the Lich-Queen is up.

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 10/10 The Invasion of Pharagos: The final couple of pages on the world of Pharagos and the plans to invade it are once again way too short to really do it justice. The continent level overview of its geography isn’t even as detailed as the...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 9/10 Culture and Gear: While there is a fair bit of crunch in this part as well, there’s also quite a bit of philosophical thought over the course of these 9 pages. While they might be evil overall, the githyanki are not ravening monsters...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 8/10 Githyanki Characters: Time to finally get to the meaty stuff, with 17 pages of new options for every stage of character creation. The spell-like abilities they get have been slightly nerfed compared to their previous appearances in the...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 7/10 First Watch: Erik has trumpeted the coolness of the Fiend Folio several times in the past. It might have been a bit hit and miss, but one person who’s entries were all hits was 16 year old Charlie Stross, who contributed the Gith...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 6/10 The Lich-Queen's Beloved: Not content with already having the 1st and 2nd largest adventures ever in here, Chris Perkins takes the 3rd place as well with this 44 page monstrosity, pushing Monte down to 4th. After thousands of years of...

Improved invisibility is only a 4th level spell, and he'll have blown his load and teleported away before it wears off.

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 5/10 Critical Threats 2: Despite 3e being built around “fair” fights, there are a lot of rules exploits you can pull to make them very unfair indeed. Jonathan Tweet decides to demonstrate one of the easier ways to cheese your opponents using...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 4/10 Agents and Allies 2: Looking ahead, it turns out this column doesn’t catch on after all, so these two are all you’re getting. At least it is another interesting one. Lone Tooth is a monk who joined the Sacred Order of Man-Beasts and was...

:scrappy-doo voice: He swallowed Daphne! Spit her out! Let me at 'im! Let me at 'im!

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 3/10 100 issues of Dungeon Magazine: This is pretty similar to the retrospective in issue 300 of Dragon, looking at the ups and downs, although as they’re younger and have had fewer editors it’s easier to get them back. Only Anthony &...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 2/10 Agents and Allies: An adventure can not run on enemies alone. To complement their critical threats, they’re now accepting submissions of less hostile NPC’s. (although still having some moral ambiguity makes them more useful) The first...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 100/159: July 2003 part 1/10 166 (180) pages. Ah yes, the githyanki incursion. I remember being quite impressed just by the Dragon side of that, so I’m very interested in finally getting to read the rest, over a decade later. The size of the issue seems a little...

And it looks like I've well and truly lost the faith of that group, as even the two people who showed up last time and expressed some interest in continuing didn't show up this time, let alone any of the others. Definitely time to clean the slate and hope that I can get at least a little further...

Once again, a sudden reversal of fate strikes. The one player who complained at the end of last session quit just before the start of this one. Two of the others showed up, but one was sick and decided after a few minutes conversation they weren't up to playing this week. The others simply never...