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Dungeon Issue 78: Jan/Feb 2000 part 4/5 Trial of the Frog: With all the big old school callbacks they've done recently, I'm a bit disappointed that this has absolutely nothing to do with Dave Arneson's Temple of the Frog, not even a little easter egg for the hardcore. Instead, it's another...

Dungeon Issue 78: Jan/Feb 2000 part 3/5 Peer Amid the Waters: After a big adventure that expected you to take multiple challenging terrains in stride, it is indeed a little tiresome to go back to a low level one where dealing with being underwater and in the dark is a big deal for the...

Dungeon Issue 78: Jan/Feb 2000 part 2/5 Lear the Giant-King: In 1995 they did two shakespearean adventures in quick succession. Now they go back to the well a third time to blow the story of King Lear up to Storm Giant sized proportions. Even if you've spoiled yourself on the story, you'll...

Dungeon Issue 78: Jan/Feb 2000 part 1/5 92 pages. Purple reign, purple reign. Why are these giants purple and what is the male one with a fabulous beard (which is how you know they're not drow) king of? Apparently we're starting the year off in shakespearean style, which should at least...

Polyhedron Issue 139: December 1999 part 5/5 Marybelle Visitor's Information Grid: Also somewhat repetitive is the info on the Living Verge, which is exactly the same as last time, only boiled down into a flowchart which gives us the facts without all the waffle of an IC newscast...

Polyhedron Issue 139: December 1999 part 4/5 Glyphs of Devotion: We just had one religion special back in april. I guess they had a whole bunch of submissions that didn't quite make the deadline, because there's multiple godly articles in this issue as well. Any dungeoneer worth their salt...

Polyhedron Issue 139: December 1999 part 3/5 Adventurer's Guide 2000: The procedural stuff grinds onwards. You no longer have to pay for adventures in their Retail Play Program, as they make sending you .pdfs over email default. Just make sure you have a host that can deal with attachments...

Polyhedron Issue 139: December 1999 part 2/5 Table Talk: This years's decathlon draws to a close, and here's a load more winners, along with the last few events of the year. CARP were the only group to even try for the Most new Certified Judges at Gen Con this year. They also did pretty...

Polyhedron Issue 139: December 1999 part 1/5 36 pages. Is there any point hiding your face as a sexy ninja assassin when the scars or tattoos on the exposed parts of your body make you instantly recognisable anyway? Just another of those questions you have to deal with in a fantasy world...

Dungeon Issue 77: Nov/Dec 1999 part 5/5 To Walk Beneath the Waves: Another issue, another underwater adventure aimed at low level landlubbers who haven't got all the equipment to function down there for extended periods of time. You can only do one or two of them in any particular campaign...

Dungeon Issue 77: Nov/Dec 1999 part 4/5 Ex Keraptis Cum Amore: Another instance where the cover adventure is more ambitious than all the other adventures in the issue put together and the only one designed to last more than a session. Once again Keraptis (or someone saying they're...

Dungeon Issue 77: Nov/Dec 1999 part 3/5 Side Treks - A Feast of Flesh: Giant beetles are one of the first enemies you see in the D&D basic set, so it's surprising how rarely they've appeared in this magazine. I guess they are pretty mindless, so it's hard to write a plot revolving around...

Sorry for the unscheduled absence. Just had the worst plane flight of my life and it's taken this long to actually get to my hotel and get reliable wifi, with half my luggage still missing. Fun times. Normal service will resume for another couple of weeks, at which point I hope the return trip...

Dungeon Issue 77: Nov/Dec 1999 part 1/5 84 pages. Face the wrath of Keraptis!!!! Dragon and Polyhedron are boldly announcing the new edition, while Dungeon is still catering to nostalgia with one of the big silver anniversary tie-ins. How implausible will the evil wizard’s escape from...

Polyhedron Issue 138: October 1999 part 5/5 From the Trenches: Our Gen Con recap is shorter and less cheerful than usual. Yes, there was the announcement of 3e with great fanfare and the promise of being able to create all sorts of characters the current rules don't allow. But that also...

Polyhedron Issue 138: October 1999 part 4/5 Living Greyhawk: Unsurprisingly given the new editor, the work to make sure their new Living setting is the biggest best thing ever continues to step up in intensity. First thing's first is to set the mood. It's the oldest D&D setting, filled...

Polyhedron Issue 138: October 1999 part 3/5 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: Our seemingly endless wandering of the Border Kingdoms takes us to Oeble, which firmly fits into the den of scum & villainy mould. Like Automata in the Outlands, it exists as much underground as aboveground, with a...

Polyhedron Issue 138: October 1999 part 2/5 Lotus the Fire Blossom: The cover star from issue 136 gets the winning entry for their backstory here. It’s both ultra-cheesy and inconsistent with lore from previous issues, as the owner of the jewel store has a completely different name and...

Polyhedron Issue 138: October 1999 part 1/5 32 pages. Oncoming train! Much harder to get out of the way of one underground as well, and that’s not even getting into the trouble you’ll have breathing after it passes if it’s a steam engine. Looks like we might be getting something on the...

Dungeon Issue 76: Sep/Oct 1999 part 5/5 Earth Tones: After all the heroic nonsense of the last adventure, this one has the somewhat more neutral motivation of exploring a recently discovered abandoned dwarven steading for treasure. Of course, when the person who discovered it sends out a...