Thursday, February 14, 2008

Polyhedron minigames

Before I move on to making characters for this, Im going to give a little background on Polyhedron and what it is. Polyhedron was a gaming magazine, published by Paizo, who until recently produced both Dungeon and Dragon and currently Pathfinder. It's last 20 or so issues were featured in the back of Dungeon before it was discontinued.

It was a fun little gaming rag doing a combination of D20 minigames and expansion material, mainly focused on D&D but also covering D20 modern, star wars D20 and others. The minigames tended to be on the quirky side, and consist of some of the most unique and interesting ideas for games I've ever seen. The size of the mag meant they were never very comprehensive and rules quality tended to vary, but they look like great material for a short campaign or one-shot.

The creation of D20 modern gave a significant boost to the quality of these minigames. With a stable, functioning ruleset to work off, Polyhedron could devote more space to background and cool ideas.

I've got a whole bunch of these and a fair few minigames as a result. However, since most of them, such as Mecha Crusade and Iron Lords of Jupiter use the D20 modern ruleset, I'm going to restrict myself to just those that are as seperate as possible to avoid overlap.

The following characters promise to be some of the wierdest and wackiest this side of Toon. Should be good.

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