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As a player: late in 1976, my mate Phil knew this lad from the year above in school who had this new game from the USA. The older boy, Dave, had designed a dungeon and Phil and I rolled up characters to explore it. Aelfric the fighter was mine and Phil had Amroth the wizard, with his one spell...

PS thanks for posting and welcome to the boards.

I don’t recognise any, but they definitely have a late 1970s vibe and they carry a nostalgic beauty. There is a wonderful site called Lost Minis Wiki which may help, or if not, give hours of fun. I’m not savvy enough to do a link but Google should get you there.

I love DM-ing but have occasionally struggled in the past when I was working ( my job as a school principal was very long hours) and exhaustion got in the way of creativity or motivation. I play in a group of five face-to-face, one of whom is @TheSword from these boards, and he and I both run a...

@Dannyalcatraz is right to identify the use of the word “boy” as potentially having racist or bigoted connotations. The 2006 Ash v Tyson Foods ruling of SCOTUS is clear on this. So, I probably need to explain my username: My wife is from a UK Roma background and adding the word “boy” to the...

Guess I’m slightly cheating here because I’m rolling my love for a magic item (inspired by the image below) into my love for an entire adventure that I ran back in 2e times. Oh well, it’s a cool axe anyway;

It certainly did. This series is so wonderful to read.

Lillend were a truly beautiful creation with so many uses in a campaign.

It was in Kent, UK There would be far too much risk assessment involved, plus no way a group of students, led by senior students (I was 17 as were a couple of others) could stay in the school overnight without teacher supervision.

Our school club even did a 24 hour charity DND marathon in the October break, using the school premises. It was pretty cool because the school was founded in 1549 and the old buildings had many “memories” which made for a creepy gaming atmosphere. Having ended up as a school principal myself...

There was an actual D&D club at my school from 1979 onwards; my friends and I actually founded it and ran it till we left in 1981. Bizarrely, my 12 year old grandson now attends the same school and the club is still running; he intends to join as soon as he reaches Year 9 (aged 14) to meet the...

I'm not sure who it's by, but this image of the landshark captures so much of the spirit of early wilderness adventures. It was a close call between this bulette image and the one which has "treed" a halfling like a dog to a racoon, but this one just edged it.

Xvarts are the same colour as Tharizdun. Just saying.

I used the Anti-Paladin as a BBEG in a long-running campaign, so that sticks in my mind. I also still wake up shaking at what the Witch NPC did to my character and his friends in a Wilderlands campaign that I was playing in; not quite a TOK but close. Loved Wormy of course. The main thing for...

OK, short version; My next door neighbor fixes old grandfather clocks for a living. I don’t know how many people in the UK do this job, but it’s not many! He gets a call to fix an expensive grandfather clock at a very large house in South London. The owner of the clock (and the house) was Kate...

My grandkids (12 and 9) got into D&D directly due to Stranger Things; I’m running them through Lost Mines of Phandelver, and the 12 year old wants the rulebooks for his birthday in October. In vaguely related and slightly whimsical news, the ivy on my garden fence has grown from a cutting from...

Man Beast (from an early White Dwarf magazine)

I tried to recreate a bit last week with my grandkids (12 and 9) by taking them up to the ruins of Sutton Valence castle to play out the Cragmaw Castle section of the starter set. Had a blast but didn’t try to steal any fruit from the local orchards! PS just an idle question to US friends, in...