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Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 11/12 Into the Pulp Era: Given our limited page count, the roleplaying advice is predictably speedy, also fitting into just 4 pages. But since in depth characterisation and consistent continuity over many years is not something the pulps...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 10/12 A Thousand Skills, A Thousand Kills: The number of skills gets a mild pruning from 44 to 39. Drive, Pilot and Repair are added, Heal is replaced by Treat Injury, Pick Pockets is replaced by the similar but more general Sleight of...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 9/12 A Dame with class ….. and a .38: Classes work pretty similarly to regular D&D, with the base XP, feat & ability increase table reprinted here despite the number of people needing it because they don’t have the D&D corebooks probably...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 8/12 Pulp Heroes - Introduction: David Noonan kicks this off by talking about the sheer range of the pulps they’re drawing inspiration from. More a medium than a genre, there are still a number of things that showed up quite frequently in...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 7/12 Release Roundup: Over in Dragon, the number of 1st party D&D books has slowed from its mid 90’s peak to a mere one or two per month, leaving the Previews section looking increasingly marginalised. Over here, they can fill a full page...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 6/12 First Watch: Flip the magazine around, it says Polyhedron on the back cover, but is it really a continuation of the old newszine? Not reeeeally, if the contents pages and editorial are anything to go by. Even with the expanded page...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 5/12 Tears for Twilight Hollow: An issue of record-breaking size deserves at least one adventure of similar scale. Freed from editing three magazines at once, Chris Perkins has the time & energy to deliver this 45 page mammoth with the...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 4/12 Critical Threats: We kick off the new column with a distinctly edgelordy werewolf cleric of Malar who likes to be known simply as Oblivion. (not the name his parents gave him, but he killed them, so who else is going to use the one on...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 3/12 Totentanz: Straight away, we have another adventure full of spooky stuff where having a high will save is definitely a good idea. The barony of Luzern has recently become a cursed zone, with all the people fleeing or becoming undead...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 90/149: Jan/Feb 2002 part 2/12 The Elfwhisper: We’ve had a few adventures over the years where the elves get special privileges, quite possibly to the irritation of everyone else. To redress the balance, here’s one specifically designed to screw the elf in the...

Well, it’s been three and a half years of meandering through the history of roleplaying and I’ve hit the point where Dungeon and Polyhedron merge and start doing minigames. To keep things interesting for myself (and because I haven’t had the chance to actually play since the start of the...

Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001 part 6/6 Wedding Bells: Another idea that they did several times in the previous edition but have only just gotten around to doing here. The PC’s are invited to the wedding of their friend, but of course things won’t go smoothly and they’ll have to intervene...

Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001 part 5/6 Rage: After a long brutal adventure where you’re in distinct danger of coming out with fewer levels than you went in, its a relief to see them do a short, lighthearted one as contrast afterwards. A barbarian annoyed a troll witch by killing her son...

Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001 part 4/6 Headless: Didn’t we just have to deal with rolling heads in Polyhedron. Now we have to deal with headless undead in this adventure? I guess that’s two monsters from one body, which is very efficient use of resources for a necromancer. Maybe you could...

Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001 part 3/6 Rivers of Blood: Another tie-in adventure straight away as we’re off to 10th century eastern Europe to supplement the themed stuff in Dragon 290. Several different chieftains are fighting for control over the lands around Kiev, (Plus ca change) and...

Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001 part 2/6 Honor and Eta: As soon as Oriental Adventures was published in 1985, they got a flood of articles and adventures for it, enough to publish one most months until we hit the early 90s, when it gradually petered out. It doesn’t look like the zeitgeist...

Hello there. If you’ve been reading these forums for any length of time you’ve probably seen me working my way through Dragon magazine, and now Polyhedron. Having reached the point where they’re putting minigames in the magazines, I’ve decided to slow things down a bit and see if anyone’s...

Dungeon Issue 89: Nov/Dec 2001 part 1/6 76 (116) pages. It’s been a few years since the great nipple ban officially ended, but here’s the first time they’ve actually put a female presenting one on the cover. However, they’ve definitely gone to quite some effort to make the harpy it’s...

Polyhedron Issue 148: October 2001 part 6/6 The Polyhedron Review: La Guerre des Ombres is our first and probably last french language review. Head to the campaign setting of Archipels for some nautical-based intrigue. The story is quite interesting, but as usual there’s some obvious goofs...

Polyhedron Issue 148: October 2001 part 5/6 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: It looks like the series on the Border Kingdoms is never going to be concluded. Even Ed’s writing isn’t prestigious enough to hold back a format change this large. He will eventually release a full book on the...