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The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-4: April 1998 6 pages. The Heart of Bane continues to attract trouble, but thankfully said trouble tends to cancel itself out after a while. This time it's Tanar'ri vs Baatezu trying to get their hands on it and take it home to use in whatever long-term schemes...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 5/5 Powers That Be: The second god in this series is another well-known one that'll appear in next edition's corebooks. St Cuthbert of the Cudgel, the no-nonsense common sense god who has no hesitation giving you a good smack upside the head if you...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 4/5 Jungle Tales 2: The first tale foretold events to come in the Living Jungle. This one tells us about the recent past, how a young Shu named Booda became the unlikely chief of the Simbuki tribe. Orphaned from one tribe, cast out from another, he had...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 3/5 Jungle Tales: This irregular column goes back to one of the plot hooks dropped in the very first Living Jungle issue. The lion tribe have never met a tiger, but have legends of their existence that say when they do it's going to be pretty...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 2/5 Table Talk UK: All the stuff promoted in the main Table Talk column was very USA centric so it's a relief to see them still doing some coverage of the wider world. This time we're off to Warpcon in Cork. (which in the RoI so it isn't technically...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 1/5 53 pages. Still keeping some of the high-tech elements from last issue, but they're being put to more visceral use fighting a giant gorilla. Shadowrun is still pretty popular around here, so let's see what new material they have to offer for...

Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998 part 5/5 Uzaglu of the Underdark: Connecting to his theme in the editorial, Chris shows us another way to combine familiar elements in an inventive way that no-one else has done before. An undead myconid? What interesting ways could the transition to unlife...

Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998 part 4/5 Side Treks - The Little People: Leprechauns. Whether they're on your side or not, there's a creature guaranteed to add a little irritation to an adventure. Thankfully this is one where the pointy boot is on the other foot, and they're the ones in...

Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998 part 3/5 Side Treks - Eye of the Storm: There's a lot of profit to be made in solving problems you've created yourself. What better time to sell lightning rods to a village than when there's a huge storm a-comin'? They'll be too busy frantically fitting them...

Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998 part 2/5 Witches' Brew: As usual for the first adventure in an issue, they pick something that's conceptually fairly simple. You're hired by a wizard to gather potion ingredients. Can you get hold of baneberries, black peat bog tar, shrieking mandrake root...

Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998 part 1/5 80 pages. Scarecrows with pumpkin heads? In april? At this latitude? Localised entirely within your cornfield? Looks like they're failing at seasonality again due to the massive surplus of horror submissions. Let's see if there are any fresh ideas...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-3: March 1998 10 pages. The majority of the news is devoted to the noble classes attempting to reassert their dominance after being decimated by the war. The surviving houses are now under extra pressure to find suitable people to marry and produce new heirs...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-2: February 1998 5 pages. Religion continues to be both the cause of and the solution to much of the Living City's problems. The gaggle of evil cultists seeking the Heart of Bane have mostly been arrested, but the temple of Lliira is facing all kinds of trouble...

Polyhedron Issue 128: February 1998 part 5/5 Powers That Be: As they said he would a few months ago, Eric Boyd hops from Toril to Oerth to give them a little more spotlight time. Certain WotC staff were big Greyhawk fans back in the day, so they're bringing the setting back even if it...

Polyhedron Issue 128: February 1998 part 4/5 Virtual Seattle Player Package: Several years later, Virtual Seattle still has a small but dedicated player base, but the Heintz's have grown tired of all the admin stuff and want to be able to enjoy just playing again, so they're handing the...

Polyhedron Issue 128: February 1998 part 3/5 The New Face of the Enemy: Play by Mail games have never been the primary focus of Dragon or Polyhedron, but they have been a persistent undercurrent right back to the very earliest days of roleplaying, another offshoot from their wargaming...

Polyhedron Issue 128: February 1998 part 2/5 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: Ed is not embracing the digital world, preferring to keep his communiques strictly to letter or irl, which co-incidentally is also the name of this month's spotlighted village. They're particularly notable for being...

Polyhedron Issue 128: February 1998 part 1/5 32 pages. Here we are. Another year, another issue, another binary digit. Each new piece of information takes up increasing amounts of data because you have to use increasingly long codes to point to them. How do you comprehend that vast stream...

Dungeon Issue 66: Jan/Feb 1998 part 5/5 Orange and Black: A tiger? A bad guy? But they're so kyooot! Yup, it's time for another adventure in the same issue where what initially seems like just a basic challenge to kill turns out to be a lot more complex. A little kid has gone missing from...

Dungeon Issue 66: Jan/Feb 1998 part 4/5 Operation Manta Ray: Or maybe this is the cover story, since it's a second nautical one in the same issue. Yeesh, what was I saying about diminishing returns? Still, at least it's one that requires sneakiness rather than straight-up paladin style...