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Polyhedron Issue 137: July 1999 part 4/5 Mentors, Patrons & Sponsors: Here we go again. Time for some more basic roleplaying advice. It can be a lot quicker and easier to get to the fun part of adventuring if you have someone more powerful giving you a leg up, providing you with equipment...

Polyhedron Issue 137: July 1999 part 3/5 Techie Toys for all Ages: Gauss Grenades emit an electromagnetic pulse that thoroughly messes up all electronic gadgets in the area. In Shadowrun, this can be very expensive and potentially lethal if large parts of your body are replaced with...

Polyhedron Issue 137: July 1999 part 2/5 Member Spotlight: The profilee this time is Greg Dreher, one of their most prolific adventure writers. Since 1995 he's produced 23 of them, with no signs of stopping. That's one every couple of months! I guess RPGA adventures are pretty short, but...

Polyhedron Issue 137: July 1999 part 1/5 32 pages. Down into a dungeon? With some leering humanoids? That’s not very mysterious or unknown to us by now, even if the question of how they got behind the explorer is a bit worrying. I guess that’s a reminder that you should be careful with...

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Polyhedron UK Issue 5: June(?) 1999 part 5/5 Mailbag: First letter complains that UK members can't access the USA website stuff that requires a login. That's because they're on separate databases and can't share all the details across countries without falling foul of data protection laws...

Polyhedron UK Issue 5: June(?) 1999 part 4/5 Justice is on the Cards: The centrepiece of the issue is unsurprisingly tied into the cover, giving us a full colour 4-page look into the new Judge Dredd CCG and the process of it's development. A bunch of the main culprits give their sides of...

Polyhedron UK Issue 5: June(?) 1999 part 3/5 Game Reviews: The Accursed Tower sees R. A. Salvatore take a rare break from cranking out Drizzt novels to do an actual adventure. Low level fare where you follow a merchant around and discover Icewind Dale in a (relatively) safe manner. Sounds...

Polyhedron UK Issue 5: June(?) 1999 part 2/5 Ninja: The USA has long since tired of ninjas, with no ninja turtle series active for the first time in 13 years. The UK is a little behind the trends as usual, plus this magazine is still new so they aren't repeating themselves by doing a big...

Polyhedron UK Issue 5: June(?) 1999 part 1/5 72 pages. They forgot to put the date on! I thought that was the lawuh! I had to make an educated guess from context by reading all the way through and checking all the listings. That's the kind of infraction that'd get you gazing into the fist...

Polyhedron Issue 136: June 1999 part 5/5 Hunger in the Harbor: The mini-adventure this issue isn't a Raven's Bluff one, but could easily be used there, or any port town, or indeed any settlement with a bit of modification to account for the types of buildings present and their relative...

Polyhedron Issue 136: June 1999 part 4/5 the House of Spice: Growing spices is generally somewhat less dangerous than hunting animals for their body parts, but it still has a decent amount of adventuring opportunity. Some only grow in very specific climates, requiring long trips to collect...

Polyhedron Issue 136: June 1999 part 3/5 City Stories: Selune is a pretty popular god for PC clerics, so it's mildly surprising it's taken them this long to cover her temple in Raven's Bluff. It's a pretty big place too, with different wings devoted to each phase of the moon (except...

Polyhedron Issue 136: June 1999 part 2/5 Member Spotlight: Our profilee this time is Jeffrey M. West. (Not the same one recently put away for several decades for making child porn if you google the name, thankfully, unless he's also lying about his age here.) Not one of the volunteers...

Polyhedron Issue 136: June 1999 part 1/5 32 pages. Nice callback to issue 69 on the cover there. Good to see they've got an artist who pays attention to the lore. Also, good luck to that thief trying to fence what they stole, given how well connected this place's owner is in the Raven's...

Dungeon Issue 74: May/June 1999 part 5/5 Side Trek - The Vale of Weeping Widows: We reach the end of another issue, and we have another side trek that feels like it was chosen because it was exactly the right size to fit with the page count and amount of adverts. They must have had...

Dungeon Issue 74: May/June 1999 part 4/5 Night of the Bloodbirds: Stirges. Y'know, we haven't actually seen that many of those around lately. They were a staple in the days of big ol' dungeoncrawls with regular rolling for random encounters, but faded away with the rise of more...

Dungeon Issue 74: May/June 1999 part 3/5 First People: Time for one of those reminders that PC's shouldn't just kill whatever they encounter on an expedition and take their stuff, as that's culturally insensitive. The PC's are searching for a pass through northern mountains when they come...

Dungeon Issue 74: May/June 1999 part 2/5 The Scourge of Scalabar: If I had a dollar for every time a gnome built a submarine in here I'd have 2 dollars, which doesn't seem like much, but when you add it to the steamboats, spaceships and giant semi-aquatic lobster robots you get a picture...

Dungeon Issue 74: May/June 1999 part 1/5 84 pages. I want no greens at all! Red, yellow, purple, black, all fine. Even a hint of green, you're fired! Well, it definitely gets this cover to stand out, making things look bleak but not too dark to make out what's going on. Let's hope the...