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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8992706" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron UK Issue 5: June(?) 1999part 1/572 pages. They forgot to put the date on! I thought that was the lawuh! I had to make an educated guess from context by reading all the way through and checking all the listings. That's the kind of infraction that'd get you gazing into the fist of Dredd in Mega City One. Who uncoincidentaly is on both the front and back covers. Let's find out what kind of game material he'll be involved with inside and if I'll feel the need to punish the writers after reading it.Network News: Sarbreenar is now up and running, with it's own website. (which unfortunately is now another one lost to time so I can't enjoy whatever material was on there) They ran the first adventures at recent conventions and have plenty more in the pipeline. Now they just need some more submissions of locations and NPC's to put in future issues and grow the place from a sleepy village to a full-on adventuring hub. Another of those times where I wish the Living City hadn't been scrapped after the edition change, as they still had so much building to do to flesh out all the adjacent areas and maybe link them to various real world countries. In more unreservedly positive news, they've finally got that schools competition program going that they talked about years ago, introducing kids to roleplaying in over 100 schools and sending the best team to Gen Con. If they can keep that going in following years it'll definitely have an effect on the number of gamers around long-term. Then there's the usual collection of conventions they went to - Tower Con, the London Book Fair, Comic Con, the Dudley Bug Ball. Not much detail on them here, but obviously fun was had and most will be back next year, hopefully bigger than ever. All seems fairly positive. Fiction - The Choice and the Trial by Iain Lowson: Off to the world of Marakush again for some gritty low magic fantasy. A young elf was climbing the mountains, only to be faced with a single goblin also looking to win some acclaim up there. A very small-scale fight compared to commanding armies or wandering the planes, but that just makes it all the tenser. Many a disney villain has met their end against a weaker hero when they overstepped their mark on top of a cliff or building and tumbled to their doom. So they're faced with a tense standoff, trying to reach the high ground that would let them throw stuff down on the other one. The elf gets her arm broken, which makes climbing even more slow and agonising. Eventually they both reach the summit, which has a griffon nest on it. In the ensuing struggle, the goblin kills the adult griffons and almost kills the elf before she triumphs, leaving her severely wounded with one newly hatched griffon chick surviving. Somehow she eventually made it back, became a famed griffon-rider, lived a long and heroic life and eventually died, leaving behind only stories for the loremaster of the kingdom to tell to future generations. But the details of those will have to wait until another time, who knows where, who knows when. A fairly atmospheric story, but one that feels like a mere chapter in a larger novel, this definitely leaves me wanting more and I'd be interested to know if other Chivalry & Sorcery products actually return to the same set of characters. Since the writer has stayed involved with the line for many years, it's not beyond the bounds of possibility.</blockquote>

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