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Polyhedron Issue 132: October 1998 part 2/5 Table Talk: Gen Con may have raised the most for charity, but other conventions are still doing good in their own way. Mega-Con helped give kids with leukemia computers, because surfing the net is one thing you can do no matter how terminally ill...

Polyhedron Issue 132: October 1998 part 1/5 48 pages: Fee Fi Foe Fum. Give me my ring back you tiny bum! The trouble with stealing from giants is the amount of loot they have usually massively exceeds your encumbrance capacity, resulting in hard choices, particularly if they're still alive...

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 5/5 Nodwick’s party have no trouble finding people willing to help them fight the ghouls, but forget to scale up the number of henchmen accordingly, leaving him even more weighed down than usual. D&D Fast-Play Game: Dragon also contains this little...

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 4/5 Kingdom of the Ghouls: Another particularly significant adventure in quick succession, as Wolfgang Baur releases his magnum opus, backed up by a tie-in ecology in Dragon and which he’ll return to again in 5e. It’s time to go full Lovecraft/Clark...

Fair enough. There were plenty of things that became standard the following edition precisely because they were logical changes that lots of people came up with independently and used for years as house rules beforehand.

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 3/5 Side Treks - Boulder Dash: One of those pun titles that encapsulates the adventure perfectly. The PC's are walking along an elevated ravine walkway when a bunch of stone giants decide to use them as target practice. They need to either make a hasty...

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 2/5 Homonculous Stew: Another issue, another wizard who's got himself in a bit of a pickle. Milo, the Wizard of the Woods sent his homunculus to grab some ogre hair to make a potion of ogre strength with. Unfortunately for him, the ogre turned out to be...

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 1/5 89 pages. Sometimes you’ve got to make a little sacrifice to get what you want. But if you can sacrifice someone else instead, it’s often win-win, particularly if you didn’t like them anyway. But that’s not very heroic thinking. Let’s find out just...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-9: September 1998 11 pages. The demonic attacks and weird magical storms hold off this month, letting the elections take place uninterrupted. Lord Silverfox won the deputy mayor position, while Lady Anna Kara Des Solara got the Speaker position in the House of...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-8: August 1998 9 pages. Fiendish problems continue to take a pretty dominant position in the newspaper. They're still attacking both Raven's Bluff and Mossbridges, but the Golden Rooster patrols are getting better at being where they're most needed and repelling...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 5/5 Internet 101: As they said in the editorial, WotC is embracing the internet and they want to bring all of us along for the ride. So here they walk you through the basics of using the internet. First, you need to pick an internet service provider...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 4/5 Target Man: After four articles for the new Marvel game, they still have room to show the love to the FASERIP version. Target Man is basically an archetypical Defender before that character role was formalised in MMORPGs and then ported back to...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 3/5 Marvel Tales: So how did we get from there to here. The old line stopped releasing material in 1992 but it looks like TSR still had the licence. (or at least, no-one could make a better offer to Marvel in the intervening years) TSR probably...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 2/5 Pillars of the Realm: The many new knightly orders introduced in the march edition of the Trumpeter continue to trickle out to the wider newszine. This time it's the ecumenical order dedicated to serving all good and neutral religions and...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 1/5 48 pages. You can accumulate all the magic weapons, armor and items you want, but at some point you'll be caught without them and forced to resort to fisticuffs again, as they show on the cover. Well, Polyhedron UK did just fill a big article with...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 5/5 Sleep of Ages: Eric L. Boyd has been contributing frequently to Polyhedron over the past few years before moving onto full books, becoming one of the biggest names in Forgotten Realms material after Ed himself. Now he brings that love of obscure lore...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 4/5 Side Treks - Stumping the Party: After a full length adventure packed with puzzles, they follow straight up with a shorter tricksy one for dessert. An ettercap and it's spidery minions using the remains of a previously captured merchant wagon as a...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 3/5 Challenge of Champions II: This probably wasn't intended to be a series when they did the first one, but it stood out from the crowd quite handily and got several letters praising it, so when current ecologist-in-chief Johnathan M Richards created...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 2/5 Slave Vats of the Yuan-Ti: So far, Dungeon has been almost entirely episodic. One two-parter, a couple of sequels to popular adventures, plenty of adventures set in the same world that are stand-alone but have minor connections a DM could choose to...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 1/5 84 pages. Here comes the Flameskull! But is it going to attack the adventurers, or is it one which is bored enough to attach themselves to the party instead and follow them around making snarky comments until they decide to kill it out of sheer...