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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...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-7s: July 1998 4 pages. Four more people try to sell themselves to the readers of the newspaper and win public office. Would you like to vote for Sir Tyrell Darkmoon, who's accumulated 8 different titles in the course of his adventures, but still says he'll support...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-7: July 1998 7 pages. A relatively quiet month this time, as most of the news is following up on previously introduced ideas. Several more people put their hats forward for various government positions, entirely willing to accept that they won't be able to play...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 5/5 MEGAbyte: The reviews continue with a particularly quirky choice of product, the Babylon 5 interactive digital guide. Two CD's full of of music and point & click menus that let you find out more about the show and the people behind it in a visually...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 4/5 Bare Bones: It's the first issue of a new magazine, so we're not getting through this without a regular column giving basic roleplaying advice. There's a bunch of basic ingredients that turn up in plots over and over again. You need a hook to get...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 3/5 The Priesthoods of Marakush: Chivalry & Sorcery? Now there's a system that's only been mentioned a few times in Dragon and not at all in Dungeon or Polyhedron, but has been doing it's thing since the late 70's and apparently is still going, having...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 2/5 Just Deserts pt 1: We may have crossed the pond, but tournament adventures are still short and linear. A lot of Cormyran merchants have been going missing recently when crossing Anauroch. As is standard practice in the forgotten realms, they hire a...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 1/5 48 pages. We're already juggling three different connected threads here at the moment. Time to add a 4th, even more obscure one. Tracking down a complete collection of Polyhedron UK was one of the hardest parts of doing this. If I'd skipped it, I...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-6s: June 1998 4 pages. Once again we're so busy with news both serious and comical that they produce two issues of the paper in one month. They're trying to make this year's Gen Con the biggest and best yet, with another epic interactive event and all the...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-6: June 1998 7 pages. Waukeen is back! And just after the church had finished renovating too. Now they have to decide if they're going to switch it all back or not. It took multiple groups of high level adventurers invading the abyss and facing hordes of...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 5/5 Living Galaxy Countdown: Well, it took them a long time, but they're finally going to do an actual campaign under the Living Galaxy name. We're off to the Argos system in the Star*Drive universe, zooming in on the planet Marybelle. It's been...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 4/5 Tying One On: Continuing with the nautical theme, Spike Y. Jones gives us a 4 page primer on real world knot-typing techniques. If you know nothing about sailing you might not see the connection, but anyone who's spent any time on a boat will know...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 3/5 Magic For Mariners: There's plenty of real world superstitions about the figureheads of ships. Enchanting one seems another good way to give yourself an edge on the dangerous seas, that could theoretically be transferred from one ship to another if...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 2/5 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: Ed once again manages to come up with a place brilliantly designed as both an adventure location and a place you could actually see yourself living. The Land of Two Princes is dominated by two noble families, the...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 1/5 48 pages. Something big is lurking beneath the ocean waves and it sure doesn't look friendly. We're going to need a bigger trident. Time for another nautically themed issue then. Will we spend more time above or below the waves and either way, what...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 5/5 Stepping Stones: Lisa Smedman decides to go full celtic, with an adventure revolving around a set of magical standing stones and the fae that live just a step away in an odd direction. The PC's come across a treasure map with a cryptic riddle written...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 4/5 The Trouble with In-Laws: If you're going to break the law, you need to be doubly sure that the people you're breaking the law with can be trusted otherwise the odds of getting away with it go way down. When the son of a lord married a commoner...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 3/5 Convergence: Another new system hits the shelves, and once again they give Chris the job of coming up with an adventure for it, since he's repeatedly proven that he does his homework (unlike certain other staff members) and won't drop thematic or...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 2/5 The Artist's Loving Touch: In a fantasy world, one thing to be suspicious of is when a sculpture or painting is a little too perfect. How many times has it turned out that they were actually people directly trapped in the form of artwork by magic...