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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8021538" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 18: May/Jun 1984part 3/6Kobolds and robots and mutants with wings: We've had a fair few crossover articles over the years where they take something from one system/world, then put it in another one. This one puts a more unusual spin on that, asking what happens if they go there and come back. Take a group of kobolds, the smallest and weediest of the common humanoid races, put them in gamma world where their fast breeding means they pick up a lot of mutations while weeding out the bad ones, and then if they find their way back to a standard fantasy world, they'll be in a much better position to expand and thrive, as they're both more powerful individually, and have picked up a bunch of technological tricks. So this is pretty cool material for two systems, that could be used in either, or as a bridging scenario between the two, setting things up for further crossover adventures. That's both inventive and a good use of their page count. Two thumbs up.Llywelyn's Tomb: Part 7 of the Prophecy of Brie is thankfully a little more serious than the previous instalments. Instead of whimsical wizardly puzzles and riddles, it's the somewhat more prosaic irritation of facing lots of undead, in a place with turn resistance, so your clerics don't get to completely dominate the proceedings. There's still a fair bit of trickery involved, and an interesting mechanism where the big bad draws power from it's minions, so it's best to take some of those out before going for it. Overall, it's a definite step upwards from the last two. Let's see if the final is suitable climactic, or if it'll go out with a splutter. The Magic-User: Looks like they're trying to make a series out of these articles showcasing several characters of the same class and showing how to differentiate them. as with the last one, their precise stats aren't given, but given the degree of history, spell selection, and magic items they have, they're well into name level and pretty dangerous in both the personal and political arena. There's also a bunch of variant spells casually tossed into the text, stronger or weaker versions of existing ones with the levels changed accordingly. It's all a lot more fantastical than the fighter one, but I guess that's not surprising. the important thing though, is that it's full of specific quirky details that are good hooks for actual play, rather than making the character an all-powerful unbeatable mary-sue that might be the DM's wet dream, but would be no fun when players encounter them. Let's hope they can keep the editorial control on that going and give us good examples for all the classes.</blockquote>

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