Search results

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-8: August 1998 9 pages. Fiendish problems continue to take a pretty dominant position in the newspaper. They're still attacking both Raven's Bluff and Mossbridges, but the Golden Rooster patrols are getting better at being where they're most needed and repelling...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 5/5 Internet 101: As they said in the editorial, WotC is embracing the internet and they want to bring all of us along for the ride. So here they walk you through the basics of using the internet. First, you need to pick an internet service provider...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 4/5 Target Man: After four articles for the new Marvel game, they still have room to show the love to the FASERIP version. Target Man is basically an archetypical Defender before that character role was formalised in MMORPGs and then ported back to...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 3/5 Marvel Tales: So how did we get from there to here. The old line stopped releasing material in 1992 but it looks like TSR still had the licence. (or at least, no-one could make a better offer to Marvel in the intervening years) TSR probably...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 2/5 Pillars of the Realm: The many new knightly orders introduced in the march edition of the Trumpeter continue to trickle out to the wider newszine. This time it's the ecumenical order dedicated to serving all good and neutral religions and...

Polyhedron Issue 131: August 1998 part 1/5 48 pages. You can accumulate all the magic weapons, armor and items you want, but at some point you'll be caught without them and forced to resort to fisticuffs again, as they show on the cover. Well, Polyhedron UK did just fill a big article with...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 5/5 Sleep of Ages: Eric L. Boyd has been contributing frequently to Polyhedron over the past few years before moving onto full books, becoming one of the biggest names in Forgotten Realms material after Ed himself. Now he brings that love of obscure lore...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 4/5 Side Treks - Stumping the Party: After a full length adventure packed with puzzles, they follow straight up with a shorter tricksy one for dessert. An ettercap and it's spidery minions using the remains of a previously captured merchant wagon as a...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 3/5 Challenge of Champions II: This probably wasn't intended to be a series when they did the first one, but it stood out from the crowd quite handily and got several letters praising it, so when current ecologist-in-chief Johnathan M Richards created...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 2/5 Slave Vats of the Yuan-Ti: So far, Dungeon has been almost entirely episodic. One two-parter, a couple of sequels to popular adventures, plenty of adventures set in the same world that are stand-alone but have minor connections a DM could choose to...

Dungeon Issue 69: Jul/Aug 1998 part 1/5 84 pages. Here comes the Flameskull! But is it going to attack the adventurers, or is it one which is bored enough to attach themselves to the party instead and follow them around making snarky comments until they decide to kill it out of sheer...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-7s: July 1998 4 pages. Four more people try to sell themselves to the readers of the newspaper and win public office. Would you like to vote for Sir Tyrell Darkmoon, who's accumulated 8 different titles in the course of his adventures, but still says he'll support...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-7: July 1998 7 pages. A relatively quiet month this time, as most of the news is following up on previously introduced ideas. Several more people put their hats forward for various government positions, entirely willing to accept that they won't be able to play...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 5/5 MEGAbyte: The reviews continue with a particularly quirky choice of product, the Babylon 5 interactive digital guide. Two CD's full of of music and point & click menus that let you find out more about the show and the people behind it in a visually...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 4/5 Bare Bones: It's the first issue of a new magazine, so we're not getting through this without a regular column giving basic roleplaying advice. There's a bunch of basic ingredients that turn up in plots over and over again. You need a hook to get...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 3/5 The Priesthoods of Marakush: Chivalry & Sorcery? Now there's a system that's only been mentioned a few times in Dragon and not at all in Dungeon or Polyhedron, but has been doing it's thing since the late 70's and apparently is still going, having...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 2/5 Just Deserts pt 1: We may have crossed the pond, but tournament adventures are still short and linear. A lot of Cormyran merchants have been going missing recently when crossing Anauroch. As is standard practice in the forgotten realms, they hire a...

Polyhedron UK Issue 1: July 1998 part 1/5 48 pages. We're already juggling three different connected threads here at the moment. Time to add a 4th, even more obscure one. Tracking down a complete collection of Polyhedron UK was one of the hardest parts of doing this. If I'd skipped it, I...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-6s: June 1998 4 pages. Once again we're so busy with news both serious and comical that they produce two issues of the paper in one month. They're trying to make this year's Gen Con the biggest and best yet, with another epic interactive event and all the...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-6: June 1998 7 pages. Waukeen is back! And just after the church had finished renovating too. Now they have to decide if they're going to switch it all back or not. It took multiple groups of high level adventurers invading the abyss and facing hordes of...