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Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 97/156: Mar/Apr 2003 part 5/10 Demonblade: Time to go back to the old formula of finding an ancient artifact that goes on to cause all manner of trouble in the modern age. Only this time it’s not a giant mecha, but just your basic evil intelligent magical sword...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 97/156: Mar/Apr 2003 part 4/10 Life's Bazaar: Our first series of adventures kept each adventure regular size and standalone until the final one, which only narrowly broke the previous record for largest single adventure on top of its other achievements. In sharp...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 97/156: Mar/Apr 2003 part 3/10 Heart of the Iron God: Here’s an adventure that should have come out a few issues ago to tie in with the giant mecha stuff. It’s time for another high-tech crossover in Greyhawk. Thousands of years ago, the clergy of Hieronious built...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 97/156: Mar/Apr 2003 part 2/10 Side Treks - Blind Man's Bluff: Even scheming geniuses screw up or can’t be everywhere. An illithid and its grimlock minions were looking for ettin brains as a delicacy. Unfortunately, the ettin they were looking for was attacked by...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 97/156: Mar/Apr 2003 part 1/10 166 pages. A beholder set against a backdrop of … out of focus spaghetti? Well, that’s considerably more mystifying than the average cover. I guess it is April, so they might have remembered to put in a comedy adventure. Time to see...

Another sign that it was originally written before the internet made researching basic facts like that much quicker and easier.

Genetech recruitment thread is up.

Genetech recruitment thread is up.

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 10/10 PX Poker Night: The minigame has only been half the size of the previous ones, which means they have the room to squeeze in another full adventure. Delta Green is among the many games that have wasted no time in putting out a D20...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 9/10 Characters: Continuing the inversion of previous minigame designs, there’s a mere 4 pages of new systems, as they’re assuming you’ve already read the D20 Modern corebook and hopefully Urban Arcana as well. All the previously listed...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 8/10 Inside Genetech: Unlike most of the other minigames, the setting stuff comes before the crunch and is surprisingly long, giving us 6 pages of both real world history of medical experimentation and how the world of Genetech is in...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 7/10 Monte's Haul: Monte Cook is our interview subject this time. After nearly a decade working with TSR and being the primary developer on the new DMG, he quit to form his own company, since the creation of the OGL means he can still...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 6/10 First Watch: The Urban Arcana teasers focus on the feats. These unsurprisingly wind up recreating D&D ideas, but with a modern spin. Divine and magical heritages, which give you the innate ability to cast a few 0th level spells per...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 5/10 Beyond the Light of Reason: Even though 3e’s tagline was going back to the dungeon, we’ve still seen very few large site-based adventures where the enemies mostly stay in their rooms until the adventurers come to kill them. Here’s...

And here we are at the 4 year anniversary of the thread. I actually finished writing the polyhedron parts months ago, but slowing down and trying to actually run the minigames means my buffer has been growing. What position will we be in next year? Will the spark finally catch on one of the...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 3/10 Provincial Prior Cause: Another short coastal adventure for 1st level characters, this time a tie-in to one of their recent T. H. Lain novels. The PC’s are sent on a mission by the local equivalent of the Knights Templar. They’ve had...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 2/10 Critical Threats: The staff keep on trying to make this column happen despite the lack of external submissions, with this one just credited to them as a whole rather than any one person. This time it’s a single dungeon room that you...

Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 96/155: Jan/Feb 2003 part 1/10 150 pages. Dragon may have skipped the backdrop for their gladiator special, but Dungeon hasn’t. Curious. Once again we’re heavily in co-ordinated tie-in territory and it’s just possible that the offerings in here might be the...

And once again it all falls apart. Two players called off early in the day for different reasons, while the final remaining one berated me for not communicating enough between sessions. It's becoming obvious that I'm not fully equipped to deal with the expectations of people who are always...

Well, I finally managed to run a session. I decided to go for the Servomotors & Sorcery option so I could advertise as both 3.5 and D20 Modern, which seemed to work. There were several people who posted once and never engaged again, or dropped into the chat and then dropped out after a bit of...