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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8167093" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 43: September 1988part 4/5The Living City: This issue's denizen of Raven's Bluff is "Angel" Rockford, an ironically named elven wizard/thief who is very much not blessed in the looks department. He's always engaging in some grift or act of petty theft, which gives him plenty of reasons to come into conflict with the PC's. He's actually pretty overqualified for what he does, and his magic and thievery skills combine to great effect in tricking people and relieving them of their property, but low wis & cha and an addictive personality means he pisses away any gains he makes and winds up back in the gutter again. Someone who sees the diamond in the rough and helps him get his naughty word together could gain a powerful ally. This all seems both full of flavour and very useful, giving you plenty of options to use him as both an ally and an antagonist. The real world pop culture references are subtle enough to be amusing but not 4th wall breaking, and it's all nicely written. This one can have a hearty Ayyyy and two thumbs up as a seal of approval. New Rogues Gallery: Unlike most of these, this article is a collection of contributions from multiple writers, which means the characters don't have the same degree of interconnection many of these articles have. But curiously enough, it also means they're of higher average quality individually. The joys of finally having a decent number of submissions for the editors to choose from. Silverleaf might or might not be the same Silverleaf from the Moldvay basic set, many centuries later. It is a common elf name, after all. He's pretty much maxed out in level, but weaker than he should be due to a deeply annoying curse picked up in his dungeoneering days. He may well rope the PC's in to help him seek a solution, whether they like it or not. A reminder that the old school dungeoneering experience was pretty nasty, full of traps, level draining undead and magical fountains that could permanently enhance or cripple your character. They have definitely become more gentle in more recent adventures. Li Po, who will go on to be the mascot for the planewalker website, is a world-hopping and powerful but humble cleric who would prefer pacifism, but understands that violence is sometimes necessary to deal with evil. If it becomes so, he has two pet tigers to back him up, and quite possibly their current litter of cubs as well. If you aren't dumb enough to fight him, you could learn three rather cool custom spells that aid in the goal of improving your communication powers so you resolve more problems in a peaceful manner. Very interesting to find out that this bit of D&D history has deeper roots than I thought, and he's pretty cool as presented here. I can quite see why people would want to use him again in the future.Mervic is a powerful wizard who would like his dagger back, thank you very much. He has a long and interesting adventuring history that culminated in him gaining the personal enmity of Jubilex and the rest of his party being killed. He's since assembled new companions, and is working on a long-term plan to take the demon lord of slime down for good, and hopefully find his dagger into the bargain. Now there's a plot hook that puts him on the side of good, but still gives the PC's reasons to get involved with him both positively and negatively. Once again this is far better than most of their recent instalments for usability. Thorym, Niatara, and Lirana are the fighter, thief/mage and cleric that round out Mervic's current party. All are considerably lower level than him and get only a small fraction of the description. They're not particularly interesting by comparison. It's handy to have sidekicks.</blockquote>

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