With a cool Tim Truman cover, which already hints at all the Conan work he would do in the future, although this is supposedly a character named Ren Grakkan (you’re no fooling me Tim!) we reach issue 21 of Polyhedron. As always it isn’t the most fascinating read, feeling like outtakes from Dragon magazine, but there are still enough unique things in it to make it worth looking through.

One of the cool things of Polyhedron is how the cover always directly related to something inside the magazine, namely the Encounters feature, where the situation on the cover is turned into a mini module for whatever TSR TTRPG fits the situation. Of course here we get an AD&D mini-module featuring a battle in a snowy setting.

Other than that we get some Gygax column reprints, some articles by Roger Moore on creating adventures for campaigns and for publication, but the central piece of the magazine is the competition module Witchstone by Carl Smith, first used in the 1983 GEN CON South Games Fair, the kind of things which is the bread and butter of Polyhedron and the RPGA as the competitive D&D association.