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Polyhedron UK 6: March 2000 part 1/5 72 pages. For such a high stress occupation, it's surprising how rarely you see adventurers smoking. I guess part of that is because even though the characters depicted are usually adults, the games are heavily marketed at kids, so you don't want to...

Polyhedron Issue 140: February 2000 part 5/5 Powers that Be: This column has it’s last entry this time, having failed to find someone who’d consistently advocate for Greyhawk gods the way Eric Boyd did for Toril ones. Fittingly, the final god we get to see is Cyndor, god of time. He’s the...

Polyhedron Issue 140: February 2000 part 4/5 Underdark Campaign Journal: Continuing the underdark theme, we talk some more about the outpost Raven’s Bluff was establishing in the metaplot before they ended the Trumpeter. A good 10 days spelunking away from the surface, they managed to...

Polyhedron Issue 140: February 2000 part 3/5 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: Last issue's area was relatively stable despite being crime-ridden. Ondeeme, on the other hand is driven purely by cult of personality. He showed up, killed all the people in charge with large amounts of blasty...

Polyhedron Issue 140: February 2000 part 2/5 Table Talk: This column has absolutely nothing to do with the decathlons for the first time in ages. Instead, it's an intro by the new local activities co-ordinator, Scott J. Magner, as mentioned last page. Apparently, the introduction of a free...

Polyhedron Issue 140: February 2000 part 1/5 36 pages. Oh no, not the tentacles! You don't normally see octopi climbing trees and a good thing too, because if they could stay on land long enough they'd actually be scarily good at it with all those gripping limbs and suckers. Lets find out...

Dungeon Issue 78: Jan/Feb 2000 part 5/5 Deepstrike: Not just one, but two Alternity adventures this issue? This is interesting. While the same page count as the fast-play centrefold, this one should take you considerably longer to play out. It is still fairly linear and mission based...

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...