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Dungeon Issue 83: Nov/Dec 2000 part 5/6 Depths of Rage: Back to adventures that feel like a showcase for features of the new system. You’ve hit 4th level, you might think you’re starting to outgrow goblin encounters. But now, even upgrading them from 1st level warriors to 1st level...

Dungeon Issue 83: Nov/Dec 2000 part 4/6 London Calling: We have visited london before under the D&D system, in one of the adventures in Dragon shortly before Dungeon spun off from it. This is not an update of that concept for the new edition though, but an Alternity one for the Dark Matter...

Dungeon Issue 83: Nov/Dec 2000 part 3/6 Iriandel: After one adventure that feels very contemporary in it’s design, this one hedges their bets by being a romantic fantasy influenced one that feels more like it was written in 2e then converted by the editors. While passing through a village...

Dungeon Issue 83: Nov/Dec 2000 part 2/6 Deep Freeze: Our cover story does indeed send you to an asylum which is being mismanaged in a particularly peculiar way and expects you to solve it. The director found the ruins of an ancient alien civilisation buried in the ice near the asylum...

Dungeon Issue 83: Nov/Dec 2000 part 1/6 132 pages. In all but the most fantastical of fantasy worlds, dentistry won’t be as good as in the real one and that’s if you can afford it at all. You’d better take care of your smile if you want it to last through both the physical and mental...

Polyhedron issue 144: October 2000 part 6/6 Web Wanderings: Internet 101 decides that we’re all probably familiar with the basics by now and rebrands, but the format remains pretty much the same. We’re off to explore the wild! Of course, small map sites have been thoroughly superceded by...

Polyhedron issue 144: October 2000 part 5/6 The Palace of Passion: It’s been a few issues since they did a feature on a Raven’s Bluff temple, but they’re back and this time they remembered to take the metaplot into account. Followers of Sune played a big part in the battle against the...

Polyhedron issue 144: October 2000 part 4/6 Ecology of a Dungeon: Now there’s a title we’ve seen before, in Dragon issue 211. Despite removing that section in the monster entries, there’ll still be a fair few ecologies released this edition, although some will be rehashes of old ones. This...

Polyhedron issue 144: October 2000 part 3/6 Elminster's Everwinking Eye: Ed’s column is crunch free as usual, in sharp contrast to the previous article, and also as usual feels like it could have been written years in advance and who’d know the difference? We’re off to Oparl, which is...

Polyhedron issue 144: October 2000 part 2/6 Secrets of the City of Ravens: For a long time, the Forgotten Realms novel line steered mostly clear of Raven’s Bluff, because it was such a busy and fast growing place that it would be very hard for a novelist to stay consistent with all the...

Polyhedron issue 144: October 2000 part 1/6 68 pages. Well, we’ve finally gone full color here as well, with a quite practically dressed centaur on the cover, although I question his ability to climb the waterfalls immediately behind him. Still, if salmon can make jumps like that there’s...

Dungeon Issue 82: Sep/Oct 2000 part 6/6 Submission Guidelines: These are a lot longer than ever before, spanning a full 11 pages. There’s a lot of basic assumptions that have changed with the release of the new edition, some more obvious than others. You still have to type things up...

Dungeon Issue 82: Sep/Oct 2000 part 5/6 Eye for an Eye: Having made it up to 3rd level already, this adventure raises the possibility that you might go up multiple levels during the course of it, which definitely never happened in previous editions with their training requirements and rule...

Dungeon Issue 82: Sep/Oct 2000 part 4/6 Dark times in Sherwood: Now for something a little less generic and a little more ambitious. A tie-in adventure to the Robin Hood themed stuff in issue 274 of Dragon. Evil baron Isembart de Belame isn’t just content to be just a baron, he now wants...

Dungeon Issue 82: Sep/Oct 2000 part 3/6 Playing with Fire: Last adventure should have just about brought you to 2nd level, putting you at just the right level to do this one, which demonstrates how much faster advancement is supposed to work in this edition. This time, the PC’s don’t need...

Dungeon Issue 82: Sep/Oct 2000 part 2/6 Evil Unearthed: No surprise that the very first adventure in the very first issue using the new edition should be aimed at 1st level characters, quite possibly to be the very first adventure you play with them. (the other choices at the moment are...

Dungeon Issue 82: Sep/Oct 2000 part 1/6 116 pages. Long time no see. These past couple of months have been very busy indeed, but we’re finally through the renovations and ready to go back down into the dungeon. Still, it’s definitely not your father’s dungeon, with a lot more color, a lot...

Living Greyhawk Journal 01: September 2000 part 4/4 Playing Pieces: Now here’s an attempt at a column that won’t make it to Dragon. One devoted to NPC’s, where that conceptual space is already taken by the Rogues Galleries. So here’s a profile of the Despotrix of Hardby, Ilena Norbelos and...

Living Greyhawk Journal 01: September 2000 part 3/4 Enchiridion of the Fiend-Sage: Oh, it’s of the fiend-sage! When I saw this column in Dragon first time around I thought Enchiridion was it’s name due to the way the writing was stylised. Turns out our considerably smarter than the average...

Living Greyhawk Journal 01: September 2000 part 2/4 Places of Mystery: Ed Greenwood has been filling the Realms with vast amounts of lore for many years now, appearing in nearly every issue of both Dragon and Polyhedron, sometimes more than once in the same issue. By contrast, Oerth still...