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A book of real D&D lore sounds like a cool product for a 50th Anniversary!

The “no edged weapons” rule for clerics probably originates from Medieval European Christian rules, of which the most famous example is Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, who is shown with a club on the Bayeux Tapestry. The tapestry was commissioned by Odo to mark his half-brother’s victory at Hastings and...

I missed the 1E to 2E change completely. I’d started, aged 13, with the white boxed set in 1976 and moved seamlessly to 1E alongside my friends at school. Kept going through university, both at the uni itself and with old school friends during the holidays a bit. I left university in ‘84 and...

I look forward to carrion crawlers, ettins and beholders appearing in the sequel. Great art.

Stating that the Seven Years War was a world war is not without merit, but to argue that it was a world war “started” by the American colonists is historically questionable. Certainly the power projection capabilities of Britain and France by the 1750s made combat in multiple theatres possible...

On the serious side: The three giant leaders (Nosnra, Grugnur and Snurre) and Eclavdra carry a lot of history in the game.

Gutboy Barrelhouse should be there! Even if only to cause havoc with spell check and my username.

Give me a beautiful map. With interesting place names and varied geographical features and climate. Give me some well-detailed sites - towns, villages, ruins - and some interesting culture, people and legends to build on. Leave a lot to my own creativity, but also give me some fully realised...

Great account once again. The looted blunderbuss is still an item of great import in our game, many sessions on from you. The PC, Hilda Von Lustfahrt, the formidable river-warden, has used it with great effect. She’s even named it: Grosse Wilhelm. (Yes, we do still have the odd instance of...

Fair enough. I absolutely agree that the "founding fathers" were appalling hypocrites and pretty terrible people. I do think, though, that the Declaration, followed by the whole Federalist Papers debate and the Constitution was an improvement on the near-absolute monarchies prevalent in Europe...

Go ahead and throw that tea! There were some good people in Britain at that time - notably, Tom Paine and a very young Mary Wollstonecraft - but King George and his government were tyrannical and foolish in equal measure. The sentiments of the Declaration of Independence , although sadly not...

Good luck with this project. From an Englishman! TBF, I taught American History and Politics and am all in favour of 1776. It was a great move by the 13 Colonies. Just a little local story: the main church in my current home town (Maidstone, Kent) houses the grave of Lawrence Washington who...

They can set it wherever they like in the Realms; I'll be moving it straight to Greyhawk!

Still loving this and it’s bringing back (fairly recent) great memories. In @TheSword ’s campaign, we are currently battling foul chaos in Castle Wittgenstein.

It is a cliche, but it’s a fairly well-supported one: My school (where I played all that rugby, but alas no American football at the time), was founded in 1549, so it’s more than two centuries older than the USA. On the other hand, I was talking to some US friends who drove 60 miles to their...

I’m a Londoner originally, but live in Maidstone now.

My (likely forlorn) hope is an expanded Re-visit of Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth alongside Temple of Tharizdun in a super-adventure. I also want the Giants to win the Super Bowl and Harlequins to win the rugby Premiership once again. The latter two are more likely to happen!

USA has far more wilderness and open space generally so those adventures are very much part of the psyche. In contrast, human history (certainly of the type that is more common in D&D) is more evident in UK. For example, I have four small castles and three large ones within 20 minutes drive of...

Gave it a 9. I took my wife and our two grandkids last week. We all loved it. As a 46 year D&D player, I saw a lot more great references in it, but my family members loved it. They have been playing for about a year or so now and loved the chance to visualise some of the spells and critters...

I wish you luck with this. I find this type of monster-math to be fascinating to watch and incredibly hard to accomplish due to so many special powers, often situational in nature eg flying, swim speed, resistances etc. I fondly remember Don Turnbull doing his Monstermark in the early White...