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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...

I guess one of the (many) reasons that Stranger Things hit such a note was memories of a time before play dates being organised by parents online, when kids used to go round to their friends’ houses and knock for them. Society has change and we can’t go back but the memories are still good.

I was a kid on a bike in the mid 1970s, part of the time in semi-rural Kent UK where everywhere was an adventure and every piece of fruit could be stolen. The other part of the time was in the East End of London; no bike, no fruit and a lot grimmer. The Kent bit also had ruined castles and...

Voted 1E. I’m already playing or running three 5E games face-to-face and playing in two awesome online games, one in Level Up and one in WFRP, so I’d have the luxury of trying something “old-new”. My memories of 3E are fairly recent so I’d love to stroke the grey cat of nostalgia and play 1E...

You are right here I think. And what a sad thing for both Luke and all fans of the Greyhawk setting that Ernie’s actions have caused this likelihood. That said, and I speak as a huge Greyhawk fan, the setting matters not one iota compared to standing up to the nasty bigots and neo-Nazis involved...

Always thought that Hawkeye, Uncas and Chingachgook from Last of the Mohicans were good examples of rangers. Skilled in the wilderness, hunters, respected the animals, helped those in need.

Defeating the plans of Tharizdun? This could include Tsojcanth, with Drelnza to free to assist the players (for her own motives) and the the Temple of Tharizdun with the expanded cyst as the endgame. Front load some new lower level intro adventures to link to Tsojcanth, then some further new...

Agree with all your analysis. As to his end game; there may not even be one beyond promoting an irrational hatred of perceived “woke” in his area of interest. He may be simply emulating techniques applied elsewhere. Without mentioning names from a larger sphere, a certain somewhat scruffily...