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Dungeon Issue 71: Nov/Dec 1998 part 2/5 Priestly Secrets: It’s been a long time since we last went to the Lendore isles. Did we ever find out what the actual secret of bone hill was? Well, looks like there’s another miserable pile of secrets for PC’s to solve in Restenford. Giant emaciated...

Dungeon Issue 71: Nov/Dec 1998 part 1/5 74 pages. Tony Diterlizzi once again takes the cover with some gnomes that are very nasally well-endowed even by gnomish standards. Will they have female gnomes beating down their door, or will they be driving everyone away by being irritating and...

Polyhedron UK Issue 2: November 1998 part 5/5 MEGAbyte: 101 Airbourne gets a moderately negative review. It needed a somewhat more powerful computer than the manufacturers recommended to run at a decent speed, there were several annoying glitches that ruined missions even when it did start...

Polyhedron UK Issue 2: November 1998 part 4/5 Reviews: Greyhawk, The Adventure Begins gets a review that points out it's very much not the beginning, but the 4th iteration of the longest running D&D setting, moving the timeline forward and building on the many modules that came before...

Polyhedron UK Issue 2: November 1998 part 3/5 Letter from America: Earlier this issue, they created a competition that'll win you a free trip to Gen Con UK. Evidently they did something very similar last year, as the 1997 winner of the open tournament won a trip to the USA to see the real...

Polyhedron UK Issue 2: November 1998 part 2/5 Crawley & Son - A model relationship: Another issue, another profile of ordinary (well, as ordinary as gamers get) members of the RPGA. Ken & Keith Crawley are a father & son team who produce some pretty large custom minis projects and take...

Polyhedron UK Issue 2: November 1998 part 1/5 60 pages. Tiger-headed humanoids appear plenty of times in multiple game systems. Are we dealing with the basic physical threat of a weretiger, the multitudinous magical tricks of a rakshasa, or something even stranger? Is that wakizashi really...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-10: October 1998 8 pages. We haven't actually heard much about the Harpers in Raven's Bluff. As long as the main evils in the region were mostly temporal they thought it best to do good in secrecy. But the problems with fiends have gone on long enough that they've...

Polyhedron Issue 132: October 1998 part 5/5 The Powers That Be: Gods of thieves are always a fun one to worship. You get to combine two normally opposing roles and leave out all the preachiness, as a good thief needs to keep their nature a secret, at least when on the job. This is...

Polyhedron Issue 132: October 1998 part 4/5 What do you know?: Nonweapon proficiencies have been standard in all the Living campaigns right from the start, and pretty popular in home campaigns as well. So advising us that you ought to pick your proficiencies based on your character's...

Polyhedron Issue 132: October 1998 part 3/5 City Stories: After several years in which the new Raven's Bluff locations focussed almost entirely on temples, they finally go back to covering shops and other establishments players might want to visit. Mother Phelia's Cupboard is an apothecary...

Polyhedron Issue 132: October 1998 part 2/5 Table Talk: Gen Con may have raised the most for charity, but other conventions are still doing good in their own way. Mega-Con helped give kids with leukemia computers, because surfing the net is one thing you can do no matter how terminally ill...

Polyhedron Issue 132: October 1998 part 1/5 48 pages: Fee Fi Foe Fum. Give me my ring back you tiny bum! The trouble with stealing from giants is the amount of loot they have usually massively exceeds your encumbrance capacity, resulting in hard choices, particularly if they're still alive...

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 5/5 Nodwick’s party have no trouble finding people willing to help them fight the ghouls, but forget to scale up the number of henchmen accordingly, leaving him even more weighed down than usual. D&D Fast-Play Game: Dragon also contains this little...

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 4/5 Kingdom of the Ghouls: Another particularly significant adventure in quick succession, as Wolfgang Baur releases his magnum opus, backed up by a tie-in ecology in Dragon and which he’ll return to again in 5e. It’s time to go full Lovecraft/Clark...

Fair enough. There were plenty of things that became standard the following edition precisely because they were logical changes that lots of people came up with independently and used for years as house rules beforehand.

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 3/5 Side Treks - Boulder Dash: One of those pun titles that encapsulates the adventure perfectly. The PC's are walking along an elevated ravine walkway when a bunch of stone giants decide to use them as target practice. They need to either make a hasty...

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 2/5 Homonculous Stew: Another issue, another wizard who's got himself in a bit of a pickle. Milo, the Wizard of the Woods sent his homunculus to grab some ogre hair to make a potion of ogre strength with. Unfortunately for him, the ogre turned out to be...

Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998 part 1/5 89 pages. Sometimes you’ve got to make a little sacrifice to get what you want. But if you can sacrifice someone else instead, it’s often win-win, particularly if you didn’t like them anyway. But that’s not very heroic thinking. Let’s find out just...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-9: September 1998 11 pages. The demonic attacks and weird magical storms hold off this month, letting the elections take place uninterrupted. Lord Silverfox won the deputy mayor position, while Lady Anna Kara Des Solara got the Speaker position in the House of...