25 Years Ago...

Welcome to the last official D&D magazine of 2000. I know there were some unofficial ones (Alarums & Excursions was still running back then), but if I tried to get into all of those, this would take a hundred years. So, Polyhedron #145 starts with a note that The Fright of Tristor  is in the mail. It was a free, member-exclusive adventure which I will look at later; I don't have a physical copy, at least not yet, but I'll get it eventually. Membership dues in the RPGA are rising (damn inflation!), and it costs $10 US to order official RPGA scenarios. There are conversions for the Living Death and Living Jungle campaigns coming as well; I assume those would be free for everyone. Then there's some news from different parts of the world talking about what's going on in the various RPGA campaigns. Letters to the Editor are next; the Polyhedron column doesn't have a fancy name like Scale Mail or Out on a Limb. Nothing of note here, except for the guy whose copy c...

Yes indeed, Polyhedron Magazine. There was one back in August as well (143), but it had no relevant content worth going over from a gaming perspective, just Realms info. This one, however, has several articles that include gaming stats, so I decided to pick up a copy and go through it. For those unfamiliar with it, Polyhedron was the official magazine of the RPGA, and first saw print all the way back in 1981. It wasn't available in stores; you had to be a member to get it. The RPGA products aside from Polyhedron included modules such as The Egg of the Phoenix , also not available in stores until a later compilation brought several of them together in a 'supermodule'. Polyhedron included quite a bit of gaming material in its first few years, but it was the Ravens Bluff era that really gave it a boost. The Living City campaign was the official RPGA setting from the very late 1980s until...well, I had to look it up, but it lasted until 2004. So, Polyhedron does include some Ra...