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Polyhedron UK Issue 4: March 1999 part 5/5 Writers Guide: Just like the US branch, they always want more submissions, but will only accept them if they meet certain criteria. Send your idea first, through email or a letter with a SASE included. Submissions themselves must include both...

Polyhedron UK Issue 4: March 1999 part 4/5 MAILbag: First letter thanks them for having a note of cynicism in their survey about the next edition. Of course there's a profit motive there, not just a desire to make the next edition better. Since any significant changes would make the vast...

Polyhedron UK Issue 4: March 1999 part 3/5 MEGAbyte: This column is devoted entirely to the new AD&D core rules CD-ROM version 2.0. A whole load of digital tools for creating your characters and campaigns, now with all the Players Option supplements with all their point-buy goodness...

Polyhedron UK Issue 4: March 1999 part 2/5 The best of the rest: The UK branch continues to talk more about the wider world of gaming, as this little article on various other RPG magazines demonstrates. Dragon & Dungeon are glossy, high quality products with plenty of useful articles, but...

Polyhedron UK Issue 4: March 1999 part 1/5 64 pages. Another issue on, a little bigger, a few more features. Once again they're making a big deal of their non-D&D content on the cover, with both Star Wars and Call of Cthulhu apparently very popular around here. Hopefully at least some of...

The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 3-1: Jan/Feb 1999 Despite it being the end of the paper, the plotlines continue at full steam. There’ll still be plenty of tournaments released this year, it’ll just be harder for me to figure out what was in them. The majority of the news is devoted to their...

Dungeon issue 72: Jan/Feb 1999 part 5/5 Plundering Poppof: A persistent problem with D&D has always been letting thieves be thieves. While their skillset is pretty handy in an adventuring life and there’s far more source material involving them than clerics, they’re also more likely to be...

Dungeon issue 72: Jan/Feb 1999 part 4/5 Mistress on the Mere: After last issue's relative lull, the Mere of Dead Men series starts to pick up again with the longest instalment yet. Castle Naerytar is another of the many places in the swamp that regularly changes hands between people and...

Dungeon issue 72: Jan/Feb 1999 part 3/5 Deep Trouble in Telthin: A planescape adventure by any other name would still smell just as eldritch. Fresh from one city dealing with zombie teleportations, this one has the rather more serious long-term problem of steadily rising water levels...

Dungeon issue 72: Jan/Feb 1999 part 2/5 No Stone Unturned: Another issue, another attempt to juggle the tastes of people who want to roleplay and people who just want to dungeoncrawl. Here’s one that could be played as just a static location, but also has a bunch of time-dependent stuff...

Dungeon issue 72: Jan/Feb 1999 part 1/5 109 pages. Tony Diterlizzi takes the cover once again on their biggest issue yet by a solid margin. Even discounting the 16 pages devoted to the Fast-Play game it'd still squeak ahead of any of it's predecessors. Will that mean lots of little...

Polyhedron UK Issue 3: January 1999 part 5/5 Star Wars - The Stellar Companion: After 8 pages of adventure, they still have room for another 7 pages of player aids. The plan for the YT-2400 ship you arrive in and 6 pregen characters so you can get straight to playing. Will you play C3-EO...

Polyhedron UK Issue 3: January 1999 part 4/5 A Simple Pickup pt 1: The adventure this issue is also a Star Wars one. Like the fiction it follows the formula of presuming the PC's are already part of the Rebels, taking missions to stymie the Empire while pretending to be simple traders...

Polyhedron UK Issue 3: January 1999 part 3/5 MEGAbyte: Diablo doesn't have much subtlety as a game, but if you like the hack & slash dungeoncrawling aspect of D&D it scratches that itch quite satisfactorily. Pick your class, load up on gear and go kill monsters to get ever more powerful...

Polyhedron UK Issue 3: January 1999 part 2/5 Death of Dolphins Errata: I thought the adventure last issue felt a bit underwritten, and I was right, as here's another two pages of material they left out last time, including the very important stats for Lord Belvedere and It That Lurks...

Polyhedron UK Issue 3: January 1999 part 1/5 60 pages. Not just the UK anymore, as they're now very specifically also including Ireland and South Africa, which is an odd combination, but I guess it has something to do with them all speaking english as their primary language. Whether...

Polyhedron Issue 134: January 1999 part 5/5 Making a Living: Speaking of refreshers, once again it's time to look at the character generation rules for Living City characters and see what new restrictions they've added. They're now even stricter about enforcing minimum age rules - if your...

Polyhedron Issue 134: January 1999 part 4/5 Intrigue In Raam: The adventure is also in theme, as we're off to Athas to try and make it a better place long-term. Raam's Sorcerer-Queen was killed in the latest big metaplot event. Can you help install some decent rulers, or will it descend...

Polyhedron Issue 134: January 1999 part 3/5 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: Another reminder that we're working on alphabetical order of first word in the country name, not main word or geographical proximity here, as we visit Middle Mukshar. Like High Mukshar from issue 127, it's a pretty...

Polyhedron Issue 134: January 1999 part 2/5 Member Spotlight: Saul Resnikoff is the winner of last year’s Best of the Best tournament at Gen Con. He’s been gaming for over 20 years, but only joined the RPGA 4 years ago, so he’s surprised but honoured to find himself in the spotlight like...