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Just an idea: Have you thought of setting the game in around (not) 750 BCE. It could even utilise not-Homer as a key NPC. That way, you’re around 400+ years after the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation and the ensuing Greek “dark ages” and just at the birth of the Classical Greek era, but...

Thanks. I'll take you up on that offer, for both gaming and football. I get stateside fairly often (I've been lucky enough to visit all 50 states over the years) and try to get to both NFL and College games whenever I can. I'm a Giants fan, so a bit of a glutton for punishment over the last...

Interesting article and it ties gaming in with the much wider issues of ageing populations, social policy changes and many other issues. Speaking personally, I was lucky enough to be in a position to retire a couple of years ago at 58 and I’ve enjoyed it a lot. I’ve never played golf and playing...

I like your idea and wish you the best with it; a Conan-esque S&S campaign sounds great to me, with variants of fighters, rogues, barbarians and rangers to choose from. I’d maybe allow some magic in the world, but only in the form of sinister mages in spider-haunted towers and priests of...

I ran Lost Mines with my wife and grandkids (13 and 10) and we had a great time, which also got the youngsters into D&D in a big way. I’ll be getting this and running it with my monthly face-to-face group, who are all in their 40s, as soon as we finish Scarlet Citadel. Looking forward to it...

Brilliant article especially the emergence of the mind flayer! I started playing D&D in 1976 so this pre-dates even an oldster like me.

Will be interesting to read replies to this thread. I was a player in this game and it was awesome; even if we did some curb-stomping, there were some wonderfully close battles, and we got our butts kicked by the pyrohydra, with one PC death and a narrow escape for the rest of us.

I’m really enjoying DM-ing Scarlet Citadel from Kobold Press, though I admit to being a bit of a lover of old-style dungeons.

Why do I love D&D? The wonderful art The magic of the old Dragon, Dungeon, Dungeoneer and early White Dwarf magazines The friends I’ve made over 46 years of playing The miniature figures I’ve painted Teaching my grandkids to play The wonder of my very first game The old Swords & Spells battles...

Keep on the Borderlands carries so many great memories for me, so it’s definitely my favourite intro adventure. I’ve even been running it intermittently as a “stand in” if someone is absent from our regular group. Phandelver is great IMO: I ran it for my wife and two grandchildren and they...

So true! And thank you for the wonderful memories inspired by that piece of art.

You could consider grouping Goblin, Bugbear and Hobgoblin into a single language?

Sadly, I can’t help with an answer but my DM used the ones from the old Dragon magazine as the Witches of Marmon in his Wilderlands campaign in around 1981 and our party got absolutely smashed (near TPK) and we were around level 10 and pretty well equipped. Still scares me today!

One of the most memorable wizards I ever DM-ed was named Jantin Foord, who called himself “Destroyer of Worlds” and whose battlecry/catchphrase was “ fireball the bastards!” So, yeah, fireball gets my vote. ( and shout out to Richard who played him)

I was 13. It was 1976 and a lad from the year above asked my friend, Phil and I if we wanted to play this new game from America, called Dungeons and Dragons.

1 Modrons are the most boring, worse and irritating monsters ever designed for the game. 2 Greyhawk is so much better than Forgotten Realms

Being islands, your Zealandia has a lot of sea surrounding it. A chance to put in at least one undersea race; maybe cetacean-based with dolphins and orcas?

The Sassanians, who ruled what’s is now Iran in the C3rd to C7th CE, are often thought to have deployed chained units of slave soldiers as human shields. Most historians consider this unlikely, and that the word “chained” is more likely to be a reference towards a form of unit organisation. So...

On the subject of pubs and directions, anyone ever play Pub Legs? Doesn’t work on motorways (interstates to our US friends) but great on long journeys on A roads. Driver is pub 1, first passenger pub 2, second passenger pub 3 etc, returning to driver to restart the count. You get a point for...

When I studied Medieval history, there was a real fear of world-ending catastrophe as the CE year 1000 approached; a bit like the “Millenium Bug” of the late 1990s, but with divine wrath, demons, angels, floods etc. Obviously it didn’t happen but I have toyed with a campaign set in a not-Europe...