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Pyramid Archives - 1999


January 1, 1999 Roleplaying INWO; Time on your hands?; Knightmare Chess variants; Nostradamus; Dork Tower; Bruno!; a review of Crimson Skies.

January 8, 1999 Cave Paintings of Western Europe; playing Magic without two full decks; Going Nova: Big Newness In Your Campaign; Bruno!; Murphy's Rules; reviews of Barbarossa: Army Group Center and The Sailor Moon Roleplaying Game.

January 15, 1999 The Playing Fields of Mars: a Space: 1889 adventure; Rise of the Knights Templar: a look at history from an In Nomine perspective; Zen and the Art of Power Structure Maintenance; Terra Incognita: Grani cus -- The Pirate's Paradise; Below the Snow - Antarctica; Bruno!; Murphy's Rules; reviews of Abduction and Return to Krondor.

January 22, 1999 An interview with Mark Kibbe of Basement Games; My First Quest; Fall of the Knights Templar; Q&A on GURPS Supers; Ancient Astronaut Texas Steel Cage Death Match; Bruno!; Murphy's Rules; reviews of Boo k of the Wyrm, 2nd Ed. and The Seafarers of Catan.

January 29, 1999 Intelligent Weapons in an AD&D campaign; Time on your Hands 2; Illuminati: New World War; Creatures of the Night: Giant Cicadas; Emperor of the Air: Norton I; Bruno!; Murphy's Rules; reviews of Unknown Armies and Pokemon.

February 5, 1999 Doppelganger; When I Own TSR, by Mike Stackpole; Jedi Mind Tricks for the Star Wars CCG; Adventure Pizza: Messenger's Lament; Travelin' Man: Sir John Mandeville; Bruno!; Dork Tower; reviews of Marvel Super Heroes RPG and The Way of War.

February 12, 1999 New ships for GURPS Traveller; Magic, 6th Edition -- New Rules for Players and Collectors; Baldur's Gate Tips; Supporting Cast: Miles Freeling; Metro Section Baghdad; Murphy's Rules ; Bruno!; reviews of Baldur's Gate and The Fate.

February 19, 1999 I Was A Teenage Gamemaster: The ABCs of Convention GMing; an interview with Five Rings' John Wick; In Remembrance of Magic: The Gathering Past; Warehouse 23: The Obsidian Bond; Croatoan or Bust: Finding The Lost Colony; Bruno!; Murphy's Rule s; reviews of Starsiege: Rebellion and Cry-Star: First of the Free.

February 26, 1999 Gray Renegades: a new type of celestial for your In Nomine campaign; cinematic combat in Feng Shui; Common INWO Errors; Adventure Pizza: The Prisoner; A Swiftly Tilting Planet: The Great Pole Shift; Bruno!; Murphy's Rules; reviews of Clar War and the latest from Cheapass games.

March 5, 1999 Unity University: a setting and resource for GURPS Traveller; Babylon 5 Errata: The Great War; Pirate Canyon -- The Sequel: a Crimson Skies scenario; Terra Incognita: The Labyrinth of Oukoss; Sup pressed Transmission: Illumination in Theory and Practice; Second Sight, Bruno, Murphy's Rules, and reviews of Basari and Quad-S.

March 12, 1999 Zauberpunk, an alternate setting for GURPS; Magic Card Spotlight: Goblin Bookie; an interview with FASA's Jill Lucas; Shadow Dancer, a supporting cast for GURPS Supers; Suppressed Transmission: Six Flags Over Roswell; Bruno, Murphy's Rules, and reviews of The Way of the Phoenix and Curse of the Shadow Beasts.

March 19, 1999 The Theta-Nine Sleepers, an adventure for GURPS Traveller; A (Very) Introductory Guide to Online Gaming; Make Dr. Lucky Fall Down, a Dr. Lucky/Toon crossover; Skulldrakes, Coca-Cola, Murphy's Rules, Bruno, and reviews of Let's Kill and Eye of the Wyvern.

March 26, 1999 Providence with different systems; Baring Fangs, a Vampire strategy; a look at the boardgame classic Wiz War; Supporting Cast: Admiral Morlyn; Suppressed Transmission: Facili Decensis Averno: Going Underground; Murphy's Rules, Bruno.

April 2, 1999 Rogue's Island, an In Nomine adventure for angelic characters; War of Dominia, a league play variant for Magic: The Gathering, Robo Rally variants; GAMA Trade Show report, part 1; Slithra; Suppressed Transmission: Fooling Around; Dork Tower, Bruno.

April 9, 1999 Watch Academy VI: Hogswatchnight, a GURPS Discworld adventure; Stellar Conquest for Two: The Perseid War, two player variant for Stellar Conquest; Pyramid Interview: Peter Adkison; Adventure Pizza: Home Turf Advantage; Suppressed Transmission: Nine Is Not Enough; Bruno, Murphy's Rules, and reviews of A Guide to the Cthulhu Cult and Carnivores.

April 16, 1999 Quick and Dirty Background Investigation Reports; Death Rally, for Car Wars; Pyramid Interview: Scott Palter; Supporting Cast: The Clanking Horror; Suppressed Transmission: A Night To Embroider: Who Sank The Titanic?; Bruno, Murphy's Rules, and reviews of Terrace and The Vemora

April 23, 1999 The Deathtrap Construction Kit; Meetings With Remarkable People, a sneak peek at GURPS Who's Who; Dork Tower Special, Cardboard Heroes of your favorite Dork Tower characters; Marxists and Magic, put the Cold War in your Fantasy; Supporting Cast: Tiger Eye; Suppressed Transmission: America's Online Goblin Market; Bruno, Murphy's Rules, and reviews of Elfenland and The Devil's Addition.

April 30, 1999 Too Much Money, The Graveknight, The Quick Fix, Supporting Cast: Tyger Fist, Suppressed Transmission: Devil's Prom Night: Walpurgisnacht Fun, Second Sight: A Futile Search for Answers, Pyramid Review: Conspiracy X; Bruno! and Murphy's Rules.

May 07, 1999 Pyramid Review: . . . And a 10-Foot Pole; No More Cannon Fodder; Pyramid Pick: The Big Cheese; Win Your Next Rail Baron Game; Long Night on Dashgad; Second Sight: Random Thoughts on Retailing; Warehouse 23: Kevin's Rest; Suppressed Transmission: Shades of Black: Alternate Black Ops; Bruno!; Dork Tower

May 14, 1999 Age of Ares; Dear Game Store Owner; Celestial Glory Kung Fu; Pyramid Pick: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri; Pyramid Review: Tikal; Subscriber Bonus: The Lost Dork Tower!; Second Sight: Requiem for a Game Club; Supporting Cast: Job, Undead Historian; Suppressed Transmission: Plumb Weird: Sacred Geometry; Murphy's Rules

May 21, 1999 Ogres in Space; Pyramid Pick/Review: D&D Adventure Game/Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing; Three Ways To Skin A Cat; World of Obsessive Gloominess; Second Sight: And the Nominees Are . . .; Creatures of the Night: The Probe; Suppressed Transmission: Light o r Dark? Bad Feelings and Phantom Menaces; Murphy's Rules

May 28, 1999 Pyramid Review: The Baalgor Wastelands; Corporeal Player's Guide Designer's Notes; Legacy of the Ming; Machine Magic; Pyramid Pick: Apples to Apples; Second Sight: The Future in the Game Business; Adventure Pizza: Joy Riders; Suppressed Transmission: Gloz el Est Magnifique!; Murphy's Rules

June 04, 1999 Rules of Warfare; The Book of Charms; GURPS Technomancer Designer's Notes; Pyramid Pick: Ricochet Robots; Pyramid Review: Furry Pirates; Second Sight: Requiem for a Game Club, Part Two; Supporting Cast: Chester Lawless; Suppressed Transmission: Spectral F orces: The BANQUO Dossier; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

June 11, 1999 A Handcrafted Conspiracy, Part I; Pyramid Review: The Creature Companion; Liber Castellorum Designer's Notes; A Hot Time in the City; Pyramid Pick: The Rifter; Second Sight: The Lie of Technology; Supporting Cast: Hazran, Crusading Dragon; Suppressed Tran smission: Be True To Your Skull; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

June 18, 1999 Ancient and Fantasy Armor Revisited; Pyramid Pick: Magic in the Shadows; Pyramid Pick: The Science of Star Wars; Contact: The Hlanssai; Top 25 Magic Combos of All Time; Second Sight: Playing the Legal Game; Warehouse 23: The Pentacle Processor; Suppressed Transmission: Crypto *** Icon: The Voynich Manuscript; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

June 25, 1999 A Handcrafted Conspiracy, Part II; GURPS Traveller: First In Designer's Notes; Pyramid Pick: Blood-Dimmed Tides; 20 New Skills for Unknown Armies Characters; Pyramid Pick: The GM's Survival Guide (for L5R); Second Sight: One Man's Origins Ballot; Supporti ng Cast: Arturo Dellamanteri; Suppressed Transmission: A Secret-Historical Alphabet; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

July 02, 1999 Pyramid Interview: Stephen V. Cole; The Cult of Apophis; Pyramid Review: Might & Magic VII; Pushing Buttons; Pyramid Pick: 7th Sea Player's Guide; Second Sight: Remembrances of Origins Past; Adventure Pizza: A Hole in the Ground; Suppressed Transmission: Fractal Valley; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

July 09, 1999 Alien Invasion!; Liber Servitorum Designer's Notes; Pyramid Pick: Aberrant; Yrth2K; Pyramid Pick: 7th Sea GM's Guide; Second Sight: More Origins Ramblings; Creatures of the Night: Roadkell; Suppressed Transmission: The Toynbee Not Taken; Murphy's Rules; D ork Tower

July 16, 1999 Pyramid Review: Birth of the Federation; Tirion's Cove; Get 'Em, Girls!; The IISS Rangers; Pyramid Review: Stellar Frontier; Second Sight: Why We Need An Evil Empire; Supporting Cast: Tsunayoshi Matsuro; Suppressed Transmission: One Giant Leap After Anoth er: Lunatic Theories; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

July 23, 1999 Recycling Paper; Pyramid Review: Deadwood; The High Guild; The Names of Legend; Pyramid Pick: Elemental; Second Sight: License to . . . What?; Creatures of the Night: Master Ants; Suppressed Transmission: Into the Woods With Robin Hood; Murphy's Rules; Do rk Tower

July 30, 1999 Fudgers of Catan; GURPS In Your Pocket; Pyramid Pick: Star Compendium; Pyramid Review: Enemies of San Angelo; Slow and Steady Experience Spending; License to . . . What?, Part Two; Supporting Cast: Ash Grey; Suppressed Transmission: City In Dust: Many-Col umned Irem; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower; Wednesday: The Calm Before The Storm; This Just In: Gen Con Opens

August 06, 1999 Card: The Game; Look It Up!; Pyramid Pick: Big Robots, Cool Starships; Pyramid Pick: Young Jedi; Thieving in the Sixth World; Second Sight: License to . . . What?, Part Three; Terra Incognita: Port Calloway; Suppressed Transmission: The Extra ''H'' Is For ''Homicidal'': H.H. Holmes; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower; Thursday: The Saga Begins; WotC announces Third Edition Dungeons & Dragons; This Just In: 3rd Edition D&D Coming for Gen Con 2000; Friday: The Big Announcement; Science Fiction Saturday; Sunday: Thi s Is The End

August 13, 1999 Pyramid Review: AD&D Core Rules 2.0 Expansion; GURPS Traveller Alien Races 2 Designer's Notes; Pyramid Pick: Dry Gulch; Pyramid Pick: The Way of D'era; Shooting From The Hip; Second Sight: What Are We Roleplaying For, Anyway?; Supporting Cast: Charles de Batz, Freelance Reality Cop; Magic Explained! Q&A on GURPS Magic and Grimoire; Suppressed Transmission: Crisis on Alternate Earths; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

August 20, 1999 Lands of the Bedouin; Infinity Ops; Andrew Season!; Pyramid Pick: The Stone; Pyramid Review: Sidekick Sourcebook; Pyramid Pick: Delta Green: Countdown; Second Sight: Why We Roleplay, Plus More; Adventure Pizza: Giant Robot!; Suppressed Transmission: The S hadows Over Lovecraft; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

August 27, 1999 A Tasteful Interlude; A Magical Invasion; Pyramid Review: Star Wars' The Visual Dictionary & Incredible Cross-Sections; Pyramid Review: Mind's Eye Theatre Journal; Pyramid Pick: Systems Failure; Star Wars CCG: The Middle-earth Variant; Due Diligence; Seco nd Sight: More Merger Mania; Creatures of the Night: Nøkken; Suppressed Transmission: I Need An Article About Trepanation Like I Need A Hole In My Head; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

September 03, 1999 Lost Souls; Pyramid Review: KRASH; Full Immersion; Pyramid Pick: Aberrant Storytellers Screen; Pyramid Pick: Back East: The South; The Jgd-ll-Jagd; Second Sight: Power Kill, Puppetland, and Polls; Warehouse 23: The Sword of Sorrow; Suppressed Transmission : The Suppressed Transmission Tarot; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

September 10, 1999 A Wall Sufficient to Defend; The Only Constant; The Lima Incident; Pyramid Review: Imagine Player's Guide; Pyramid Pick: 7th Sea CCG; Pyramid Review: Sovereign Stone; Second Sight: Atlas Shrugged . . . Again; Supporting Cast: Lady Diamond; Suppressed Tran smission: Who Killed Kit Marlowe?; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

September 17, 1999 The Lambton Worm; Pyramid Review: DarkTown, The Apocalyptic Cycle; Skull Valley; Pyramid Review: Mount Nimro, Kingdom of Giants; Pyramid Pick: Star Trek Roleplaying Game; Riders on the Storm; Second Sight: Not Necessarily the News: More on WotC-Hasbro; Cr eatures of the Night: Plague Zombies; Suppressed Transmission: Who Ya Gonna Caul? The Benandanti; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

September 24, 1999 In Trouble Again; Pyramid Review: Back East: The North; There's No Place Like Home; Pyramid Pick: Sega Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure; Bodyguards in Shadowrun; Second Sight: The Rumor Mill; Supporting Cast: Ironhand; Suppressed Transmission: Altered Spaces ; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

October 01, 1999 Pyramid Review: Brave New World; Cyberway: Bringing High-Tech to Everway; Average Joes (and Janes); Pyramid Pick: Kalamar Quests; Take 'Em Down; Pyramid Pick: Down in Flames; Second Sight: What's New Under the Pyramid; Creatures of the Night: Dayuvach; Su ppressed Transmission: Jacks Wild: Six Stabs At The Ripper; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

October 08, 1999 Pyramid Review: Clash of the Lightsabers; Hall of the Mountain Grill; INWO Quickie Decks; Pyramid Pick: BRAWL; Pyramid Review: Tales That Dead Men Tell; Playing Unknown Armies By the Book; Second Sight: Of Supplements and Splatbooks; Supporting Cast: Hi M y Name Is Todd; Suppressed Transmission: Libertatia or Death; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

October 15, 1999 Medieval and Fantasy Missile Weapons; Play Dirty: Episode One: Getting Dirty; Pyramid Pick: Ends of Empire; Pyramid Pick: Mechwarrior 3rd Ed.; Pyramid Pick: Trinity Players Guide; Demon Hunter West; Second Sight: The Role of the Game Master; Terra Incogni ta: Highwind; Suppressed Transmission: Doing Urban Fantasy Right; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

October 22, 1999 Pyramid Review: Heroes Unlimited GM's Guide; Celestials in the World of Darkness; Limited Mana; Pyramid Pick: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings; Need Guidance? Shaman Your Tribe; Second Sight: The Latest on the Merger; Supporting Cast: Moria; The Suppre ssed Transmission Tarot II: The Suit of Forks; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

October 29, 1999 Acting Like Animals; Pyramid Review: Celtic Legends; Tile Chess Designer's Notes; Pyramid Pick: Guide to the Technocracy; Space-Time for the Advanced Mallwalker; Second Sight: White Wolf and Internet Hoaxes; Creatures of the Night: The Llorona; Suppressed Transmission: Return of Clio's Nightmares; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

November 05, 1999 One in a Million; Faith-Based Magic; Pyramid Pick: Continuum; Pyramid Review: Ravaged Planet; Pyramid Pick: Tales of Chivalry & Romance; Second Sight: Micah, Movies, Millennium, and More; Supporting Cast: Niketas; Suppressed Transmission: HAARP of Darknes s; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower; Publicity Stunts 101

November 12, 1999 An In Nomine Faerie Guide; With Friends Like These; Pyramid Review: Obsidian: The Age of Judgement; Pyramid Pick: Infernalism: The Path of Screams; Pyramid Pick: Starfleet Command; The Vigilance-Class Picket; Second Sight: Millennium Countdown: T Minus 8 Weeks; Supporting Cast: The Blonde Bombshell; Suppressed Transmission: Paul Bunyan, All-American; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

November 19, 1999 The Multi-Classed Thief; Beneath the Sublime Porte; Pyramid Review: Guide to Hell; Pyramid Pick: Bearers of Jade; Pyramid Pick: Lightning Strike; Second Sight: The Millennium's Best Boardgame; Adventure Pizza: The Abbey of Gaia's Heart; Suppressed Transmi ssion: The Maiden and the Monster: Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower;

November 25, 1999 Pyramid Review: Aberrant: Year One; GURPS Silencer; An Introduction to Tabletop Gaming; Pyramid Pick: Dark*Matter; Pyramid Pick: Dragon Magazine Archive CD-ROM; Compiler's Notes: GURPS Who's Who 2; Second Sight: The Millennium's Most Influential Company, and The Millennium's Most Underrated Game; Warehouse 23: The Proof; Suppressed Transmission: The Top 23 Illuminati of the Millennium; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

December 03, 1999 Designer's Notes: GURPS Y2K; Pyramid Review: Access Denied (for the Blue Planet RPG); Designer's Notes: You Are Here; Pyramid Pick: What Were You Thinking?; Second Sight: The Millennium's Best Roleplaying Game; Supporting Cast: Migare, Wandering Merchant; Suppressed Transmission: Trail of the Black Dragon; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower; Blue Sky, Red Herring: Out of Print, Out of Mind

December 10, 1999 Changing the World; Designer's Notes: GURPS Alternate Earths 2; The Alderon Diary; Pyramid Pick: Dragon Fist; Pyramid Pick: Fading Suns, 2nd Ed.; Second Sight: The Millennium's Most Influential Event and The Millennium's Most Unsung Hero; Supporting Cast: Tiam, Mage-Hunter; The Suppressed Transmission Tarot III: The Suit of Knives; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower

December 17, 1999 ``. . . And I Feel Fine.''; GURPS Myth Designer's Notes; Pyramid Pick: Dragon Ball Z; Pyramid Pick: The Pirate Nations (for 7th Sea); Pyramid Pick: Sengoku; Second Sight: The Millennium's Best Card Game; Supporting Cast: Lars Johnson, Professional Rescuer ; Suppressed Transmission: Golden Cities, Far: The Greater El Dorado Metropolitan Area; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower; Play Dirty: Let's All Go to the Movies!

December 24, 1999 Jack Frost: Part One of Two; Wu Jen's Scrolls; Pyramid Review: Hunter: The Reckoning; Pyramid Pick: Star Trek Roleplaying Game Narrator's Toolkit; Second Sight: The Millennium's Best "Other" Game; Supporting Cast: Scanner; Suppressed Transmissio n: Illyrium Tremens: What Stirs On Twelfth Night?; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower; Women In Gaming: How Do You Get Women Into Gaming, Anyway?

December 31, 1999 In Nomine GM's Guide Designer's Notes; Pyramid Pick: Vinci; Pyramid Review: Rifts: Canada; Roleplaying Relaxes Sailors; Jack Frost: Part Two of Two; Pyramid Pick: Growlers (for VOR: The Maelstrom); Second Sight: The Millennium Wrap-Up; Terra Incognita: Ca mbiare (Tempest I); Suppressed Transmission: The 23 Most Illuminated Events of the Millennium; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower


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