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Polyhedron UK Issue 7: May 2000 part 5/5 Mailbag: First letter continues the debate on how and what skeletons can perceive. Without a more consistent and rigorous magic system than D&D, logical extrapolation can only take you so far. Second has travelled quite a bit and wants to be able...

Polyhedron UK Issue 7: May 2000 part 4/5 The Librium Subtalis: Another common class of Dragon article gets a UK edition. It's time for a description of a spellbook filled with new spells, along with some info on it's owner. A good one becomes more than the sum of it's parts by combining...

Polyhedron UK Issue 7: May 2000 part 3/5 Reviews: The Dwarves Companion for Chivalry & Sorcery gets a very enthusiastic review. If you're a frequent dwarf player like our editor, it's packed with handy detail on their everyday lives you could use for any generic-ish fantasy setting. If...

Polyhedron UK Issue 7: May 2000 part 2/5 Alternity Star Generator: Here’s a type of article I haven’t seen in a while. Space is really really big, so you’ll often find yourself in need of randomly generating star systems & their contents if players wander off the beaten track. Looking at...

Polyhedron UK Issue 7: May 2000 part 1/5 72 pages. How do you fight a creature with way too many limbs, each way too long and oddly jointed in their own right? Better hope they can't co-ordinate them as well as a creature with a smaller number. Well, I guess it's working out pretty well...

Polyhedron Issue 141: April 2000 part 5/5 The Society of the White Rose: In the Living Death campaign, all the PC's are inducted into a secret society before they even join, so you don't have to worry about all the hassle of finding other people who believe the supernatural is real and...

Polyhedron Issue 141: April 2000 part 4/5 Watching the Streets: Where there are thieves, there will eventually be law enforcement. Raven's Bluff has let PC's join the watch for quite some time, but with the introduction of downtime rules they've decided to reiterate and tighten them up in...

Screw it, I've been meaning to get around to learning how to use virtual tabletop long enough. I think I'll try running Dragon Fist as an episode zero so when I get to the polyhedron minigames in a few months I'll actually have some idea what I'm doing...

Polyhedron Issue 141: April 2000 part 3/5 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: Ondeme's secret police evidently weigh large in Ed's vision of the country, because he devotes this column to describing 8 of them individually. The Spell-Captains and Nictars may be fairly few in number, but they have...

Polyhedron Issue 141: April 2000 part 2/5 Winter Fantasy 2000 in Review: The recap of the RPGA's favourite convention falls firmly in the blandly positive mould. Even before it started properly, the summit was well-attended, giving everyone a chance to air their opinions on what they...

Polyhedron Issue 141: April 2000 part 1/5 36 pages. So that's how you do the Mission Impossible zipline trick solo and low tech. Having to do the next stage of the heisting one-handed makes it a lot trickier though. Will this halfling make a stealthy escape, or a noisy, hasty one as a ton...

Dungeon issue 79: Mar/Apr 2000 part 5/5 The Akriloth: Our final offering is by far the highest level and least generic, being heavily tied into recent Forgotten Realms supplements and their metaplot. Mel Odom's Threat from the Sea trilogy saw the various races of the Sea of Fallen Stars...

Dungeon issue 79: Mar/Apr 2000 part 4/5 Cloudkill: For all the evil schemes we’ve seen in here, it’s surprising how few of them involve environmental pollution as a side effect. (and even fewer go full Captain Planet villain and have the despoiling being the main goal) I guess that’s...

Dungeon issue 79: Mar/Apr 2000 part 3/5 Bad Seeds: A third adventure aimed at basic level characters in a row? Whatever happened to catering to a wide range of power levels? Anyway, as the title implies, it's time for an adventure revolving around plant monsters. A pair of adventurers have...

Dungeon issue 79: Mar/Apr 2000 part 2/5 Keep For Sale: A Keep? On the borderlands of civilisation? Threatened by monsters? Why I never heard of such a thing! :p Our first adventure takes a very familiar starting point and puts it's own spin on it by making the keep itself the thing you...

Dungeon issue 79: Mar/Apr 2000 part 1/5 92 pages. The number of underwater adventures has been up in general recently and it looks like that trend is continuing this time, if the cover is anything to go by. Will they stick to the shallows like most adventures, or will we finally get to see...

Polyhedron UK 6: March 2000 part 5/5 Mailbag: First letter asks how skeletons see without eyes. This short sentence provokes a full page of philosophical pontificating by the editor, running through various options and their logical ramifications. In the end, it's probably easiest to...

Polyhedron UK 6: March 2000 part 4/5 Brief Books: The book reviews are barely reviews this time, more just recommendations. Any opinions on Snuff Fiction or Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin, the Babylon 5 omnibus, Stargate SG1: The price you pay, Star Wars: Tales of the New...

Polyhedron UK 6: March 2000 part 3/5 Reviews: Carnival demonstrates to us that an evil travelling show fits just perfectly into Ravenloft, getting high marks from these reviewers. Better hope that the freaks and geeks are the sort that only bite the heads off of chickens. The Alternity...

Polyhedron UK 6: March 2000 part 2/5 Psionics Revisited: They just can't resist heavily overhauling the psionics system at every iteration, can they? The UK branch gets in on the action with another set of house rules. Rather than dividing powers up into Sciences & Devotions, both of which...