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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...

Dungeon Issue 76: Sep/Oct 1999 part 4/5 Crusader: It's so easy to take the piss out of the whole paladin concept. Between criticisms that hitting things really well is maybe not the skillset best equipped to spreading good throughout the world and moral relativity deconstructing the whole...

Dungeon Issue 76: Sep/Oct 1999 part 3/5 Side Treks - A Day at the Market: There's a Gray Ooze loose in the marketplace! You go years without one and suddenly two turn up just a few months apart from one-another. Probably both inspired by something recent in wider media, like most of these...

Dungeon Issue 76: Sep/Oct 1999 part 2/5 The House on the Edge of Midnight: Bringing people back to life never goes well in Ravenloft. But there’s always someone who’s not genre-savvy enough to do it anyway and doom themselves to an eternity of ironic punishment. The Ramsay family forgot...

Dungeon Issue 76: Sep/Oct 1999 part 1/5 92 pages. Darkness is closing in once again and the cover takes us to the frozen north, where lots of monsters grow very big as it's a good way to conserve heat, yet retain an uncanny skill at blending in with the background until it's time to...

Polyhedron Gen Con Special: August 1999 part 3/3 Food Fight!: Another food related article? How curious. Well, we've seen several comedy adventures that degenerate into brawls in the cafeteria in here, so it's not completely out of character. However, on closer reading it turns out that...

Polyhedron Gen Con Special: August 1999 part 2/3 There's Magic Afoot: Magical footwear isn't one of the most common types of magical items, but it's nowhere near the rarest either. We had several recently in Dragon 250 & 256, so apparently interest in them is on an upswing at the moment...

Polyhedron Gen Con Special: August 1999 part 1/3 16 pages. Polyhedron's schedule has already been somewhat erratic this year. Now they slip in an extra issue outside the regular numbering in a similar way to the one they did 10 years ago, aimed specifically at newbies who signed on at Gen...

Dungeon Issue 75: Jul/Aug 1999 part 5/5 Into the Nest of Vipers: Ooh, here's another one where having read the various magazines all the way through from the beginning is beneficial, as we're going back to the tiny town of Sevenecho, last seen in Polyhedron 87. A group of bandits have...

Dungeon Issue 75: Jul/Aug 1999 part 4/5 The Forgotten Man: Ah, now here's a plotline that's appears repeatedly in TV shows but they haven't done in the magazine yet. A memory loss episode! A powerful antipaladin (see Dragon issue 39) who caused devastation centuries ago was sealed away in...

Dungeon Issue 75: Jul/Aug 1999 part 3/5 The Amulet and the Underdark: A macguffin retrieval mission? That's also a pretty familiar plotline by now. The head of one fiefdom sent a gift to another as a peace offering after many years of conflict. Unfortunately, it was intercepted by bandits...

Dungeon Issue 75: Jul/Aug 1999 part 2/5 Non-Prophet Organisation: Another issue, another covey of hags causing trouble for a small town. They're trying to put a weak-willed patsy in power by sending him dreams of upcoming disasters and then making them happen, so he can stop them and gain...

Dungeon Issue 75: Jul/Aug 1999 part 1/5 92 pages. We've already seen them make a big deal about the return of Monks & Assassins recently in the Scarlet brotherhood book. Now they're trumpeting the return of the anti-paladin on the cover of this issue, which is another pretty strong sign of...

Polyhedron Issue 137: July 1999 part 5/5 Recipe for Mutiny: Like last issue, the adventure this time is a single encounter that's designed to liven up a dull bit in a session rather than filling a whole one. The PC's are on a ship voyage when the first mate tries to pull a Starscream and...