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Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 5/5 Living Galaxy Countdown: Well, it took them a long time, but they're finally going to do an actual campaign under the Living Galaxy name. We're off to the Argos system in the Star*Drive universe, zooming in on the planet Marybelle. It's been...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 4/5 Tying One On: Continuing with the nautical theme, Spike Y. Jones gives us a 4 page primer on real world knot-typing techniques. If you know nothing about sailing you might not see the connection, but anyone who's spent any time on a boat will know...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 3/5 Magic For Mariners: There's plenty of real world superstitions about the figureheads of ships. Enchanting one seems another good way to give yourself an edge on the dangerous seas, that could theoretically be transferred from one ship to another if...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 2/5 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: Ed once again manages to come up with a place brilliantly designed as both an adventure location and a place you could actually see yourself living. The Land of Two Princes is dominated by two noble families, the...

Polyhedron Issue 130: June 1998 part 1/5 48 pages. Something big is lurking beneath the ocean waves and it sure doesn't look friendly. We're going to need a bigger trident. Time for another nautically themed issue then. Will we spend more time above or below the waves and either way, what...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 5/5 Stepping Stones: Lisa Smedman decides to go full celtic, with an adventure revolving around a set of magical standing stones and the fae that live just a step away in an odd direction. The PC's come across a treasure map with a cryptic riddle written...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 4/5 The Trouble with In-Laws: If you're going to break the law, you need to be doubly sure that the people you're breaking the law with can be trusted otherwise the odds of getting away with it go way down. When the son of a lord married a commoner...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 3/5 Convergence: Another new system hits the shelves, and once again they give Chris the job of coming up with an adventure for it, since he's repeatedly proven that he does his homework (unlike certain other staff members) and won't drop thematic or...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 2/5 The Artist's Loving Touch: In a fantasy world, one thing to be suspicious of is when a sculpture or painting is a little too perfect. How many times has it turned out that they were actually people directly trapped in the form of artwork by magic...

Dungeon Issue 68: May/Jun 1998 part 1/5 84 pages. Like the last couple of Polyhedrons, the cover decides to go a little higher tech than usual. While we've seen goggles & gears like this before in mechanus, the guns make it look more likely we're finally off to see what adventures the...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-5: May 1998 6 pages. Myrkyssa Jelan has been swiftly executed after her trial, the abyssal lord Vondryxx has been imprisoned in a magic sphere, but the overall amount of fiendish interference in the city is still on the up. The infernal hunt club is trying to...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-4: April 1998 6 pages. The Heart of Bane continues to attract trouble, but thankfully said trouble tends to cancel itself out after a while. This time it's Tanar'ri vs Baatezu trying to get their hands on it and take it home to use in whatever long-term schemes...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 5/5 Powers That Be: The second god in this series is another well-known one that'll appear in next edition's corebooks. St Cuthbert of the Cudgel, the no-nonsense common sense god who has no hesitation giving you a good smack upside the head if you...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 4/5 Jungle Tales 2: The first tale foretold events to come in the Living Jungle. This one tells us about the recent past, how a young Shu named Booda became the unlikely chief of the Simbuki tribe. Orphaned from one tribe, cast out from another, he had...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 3/5 Jungle Tales: This irregular column goes back to one of the plot hooks dropped in the very first Living Jungle issue. The lion tribe have never met a tiger, but have legends of their existence that say when they do it's going to be pretty...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 2/5 Table Talk UK: All the stuff promoted in the main Table Talk column was very USA centric so it's a relief to see them still doing some coverage of the wider world. This time we're off to Warpcon in Cork. (which in the RoI so it isn't technically...

Polyhedron Issue 129: April 1998 part 1/5 53 pages. Still keeping some of the high-tech elements from last issue, but they're being put to more visceral use fighting a giant gorilla. Shadowrun is still pretty popular around here, so let's see what new material they have to offer for...

Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998 part 5/5 Uzaglu of the Underdark: Connecting to his theme in the editorial, Chris shows us another way to combine familiar elements in an inventive way that no-one else has done before. An undead myconid? What interesting ways could the transition to unlife...

Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998 part 4/5 Side Treks - The Little People: Leprechauns. Whether they're on your side or not, there's a creature guaranteed to add a little irritation to an adventure. Thankfully this is one where the pointy boot is on the other foot, and they're the ones in...

Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998 part 3/5 Side Treks - Eye of the Storm: There's a lot of profit to be made in solving problems you've created yourself. What better time to sell lightning rods to a village than when there's a huge storm a-comin'? They'll be too busy frantically fitting them...