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Maybe, but speaking personally, I am older (59 and playing since 1976), keen to see Greyhawk revived for 2024 and TOTALLY happy to see as many pebbles moved as are necessary to meet modern standards of decency and inclusivity as necessary.

I remember fighting one of these beasties back in 1E times in the 1980s. It ruled a clan of hill giants near the town of Tell Qa in the Wilderlands of High Fantasy. It was brutal!

I’ve never actually done it yet but one day I hope to run a game set in a historically accurate Europe in the year 1,000. The game would be set initially in Normandy and England and would play on the (at the time very real) fear that the turning of the Millenium would bring about an apocalypse...

“They’re big. They’re mean. They like the canteen!” I’d see them as translating the values of the forwards in rugby (or to translate, the O line and D line in NFL) to a brutal world of monstrous foes and savage environment. They recognise the roles of the “skill” positions in the battle against...

RIP Queen Elizabeth II

Playing in 3 groups: Roughly monthly with a face-to-face group of friends, running two campaigns each weekend ( I DM one, @TheSword runs the other). The group has been playing for over 20 years now. Fortnightly on Roll 20 for Warhammer campaign The Enemy Within, again run by @TheSword Weekly...

I reckon so: French sounds better than Dwarvish.

Elric of Melnibone was a good one for playing Elemental Lords against each other.

Luckily, the Great Fire of London was not the portal for an invasion of Efreet; the Great Fire of Waterdeep just might be.......

It is Smaug. The artist was Tolkien himself, so it carries that little bit of extra resonance.

Apologies for a second bite at the cherry but I can’t help thinking that the piece of non-D&D art below has had a pretty significant role in our wonderful game.........

Greyhawk by a mile. Seems to be a wonderful fit for the 50th Anniversary too. I like Nentir Vale as a smaller campaign setting if that was the objective but it doesn’t carry the historical kudos of Greyhawk.

This cover from Dunsany’s classic. For me, as a young teen in the late 1970s, it showed a more whimsical, romantic fantasy to go alongside the Elric and Conan stuff and they all melded in my D&D gaming. Real Partha did a miniature which I always assumed was based on this cover painting, so...

A truly horrific monster! A whole mini campaign could be built around this wicked thing, and it would work just as well in a horror RPG.

I guess life gets in the way multiple times and in multiple ways. The school group I played in ended when we all went off to various universities in 1981. We did game a few times in holidays but relationships, sport, travel and holiday jobs got in the way. I did play in a group at university...

I’m optimistic enough to believe that grognardism can (and should) be about celebrating the wonderful history of our game, based on the warm memories of experiencing it through the decades. I’m realistic enough to know that it can (and shouldn’t) be about rejecting or condemning the wonderful...

Played since 1976 so maybe a grognard in terms of time? My grognard definition is more about warmth of nostalgia and memory than it is about rejecting anything new. I loved the White Box and 1E and have great warmth towards the early adventures (roll on that 50th Anniversary Greyhawk and...