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So some friends of mine asked me if I'd be interesting in running D&D for a group of 11-14 year olds that are on the spectrum. Does anyone have any experience in doing so and have any advice? Heck, I'd settle for advice on running for tweens. The last time I did that, I was one myself!

So, spinning off from the Not-TSR thread, I thought I'd try starting a separate thread for specifically discussing Appendix N's influences on the game. @Mannahnin said that "the game itself is definitely not a particularly good Tolkien emulator." Very true, but I would go further in that it's...

I didn't see a new thread for the new year, so my apologies if I missed it. I finished reading The Discourses of Epictetus. It's fascinating to read the ideas and advice of centuries past. Now I'm starting the new year with Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, something I've been meaning to read...

In things I would have bet money on never happening, Mazes & Monsters is getting an HD re-release to coincide with its 40th anniversary...

So yesterday I watched the Snake Eyes movie. Though I thought the casting was all great, they were ultimately wasted on the movie. I can't claim to have great taste in movies, but I would not recommend it. Anyway, in it there was a moment when Scarlett was talking about the Baroness "being...

Spinning off from another thread, let's talk Jennell Jaquays and why her work is awesome! Though I have become a big Judges Guild fan in the ensuing years, my first experience with her work has to have been the Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide. This was the first really good advice I came...

Just came across the announcement for this new volume. It's lavishly-illustrated collection of short stories and excerpts from classic Appendix N literature: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/10/read-the-authors-that-inspired-gary-gygax-and-the-origins-of-dd-in-appendix-n.html "Drawing upon Gary...

Spinning off from the "Art That Exemplifies D&D To You" thread, what D&D art would you want on your van? Your sweet 70s, shag rug interior custom van a la: For my part, I think I'd choose this. Can't go wrong with a wizard.

Inspired by @Whizbang Dustyboots ruminating on the danger of ghouls, how many of you have lost a character to ghouls/ghasts and their paralysis? RIP J'rrik Greysword, eaten by a pair of ghouls in 3e.

After last night's Tomb of Annihilation session, I've observed the following phenomenon that I'm going to call Schrödinger's Rogue. Some time after the party enters a room, a PC (often, but not always, a rogue) will declare that they did not in fact enter the room. However, after nothing...

So I had a dream that I was creating a new character using the following stat generation method: You get a 20 in a single stat. All other stats are set to 8. You have six additional points to spend. Now, I can't account for the logic of my dreams, but one thing I found interesting is that...

Finished up Feist's Magician: Master. It was okay. Decent, even. Not sure if I waited too long between reading the first and second volume, but it felt a bit muddled for me. Next up is Okorafor's Binti: Home.

Halloween is over, and a bit of magic has gone out of the air. But books, books always have their own. I finished reading the second half of the Elric Saga yesterday. Man, does that ending still pack a punch. “Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!” Next up is...

It's the Halloween season! Even if the temperatures here are in the upper 80s here... Just finished up Kothar and the Demon Queen. Like the rest, it wasn't great, but it was a heck of a lot of fun. Next up is a re-read of Lord Dunsany's Queen of Elfland's Daughter. I haven't read that in ages...

So, spinning off from the What Are You Reading threads, let’s give this a try. I’ve been idly reading some Dragon magazine issues from the 80s and early 90s lately. And working my way through The Spire RPG. Loving this book – the rules are simple and interesting, and the setting is massively...

Perhaps it should be Advanced August, since it's still July. But I'm off to Gen Con and figured I might as well start the next thread now. I finished up St. Clair's Sign of the Labrys. It was good, and an interesting choice for Appendix N. It's closest to Hiero's Journey, mixing sci-fi and...

I was puttering around the old 3e D&D archives when I came across this: http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20010401a It’s an April Fools joke from 2001. What I find amusing is that it overshot 4e’s arrival time by about three years. What I find interesting is that they joke...

July is here, and reading is a perfectly fine summer activity. I am still working my way through Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra: A Life. Digging it so far.

New month, new thread! I just finished Sumner-Smith's Radiant. The worldbuilding got a little muddled now and then, but the story and conclusion were great. Next up is a re-read of Tolkien's Unfinished Tales, which I haven't read in ages.

Finished up The Grey Bastards. I quite liked the brawling, bawdy tale. Now I’m just about done with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Like the first book, there’s a depressive, cynical bent to it that I was too young to catch onto the first time I read the series.