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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...

I’ve never been 100% clear on the difference between a flail and a morning star; the image in post 2, I would have considered a morning star?

The party is camped in the freezing forests, far from the nearest habitation. The night air shines with frost, and it rimes the chainmail of the fighter.......and they hear a howl in the distance. It is no wolf!

As a partial aside, but still relevant, I was watching the rugby (no surprise there) this morning (UK time) with Australia hosting South Africa. A representative of the Australian First People’s nation, upon whose land Adelaide was built, performed a Welcome to Country ceremony: as part of this...

OK, just some random thoughts: How long has this concept existed?; were the current adults themselves divine as babies or is it a new thing? If everyone reveres the unborn children, who cares for the pregnant women? Is it everybody or a ritualised priesthood of some type? Are all babies...

Interesting idea and certainly a first for me in terms of ever hearing anything like this. My first thought is that it might be tricky to see this applied to all children: there are a lot of children born into any society, they need lots of care as babies, are fairly helpless, and eventually...

I love the side quest concept of a bard searching for one of these spirits to learn a song, which then frees people from the magic of a powerful, evil song.

Sorry, couldn’t help choosing another person, in this case Drelnza, daughter of Iggwilv, imprisoned deep within the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. Maybe it’s just because my personal dream for the 50th Anniversary would be a “Return to...” treatment of Tsojcanth and Tharizdun, with Drelnza as a...

King Snurre of the fire giants. What’s not to like? He wears a white dragon cloak to protect against cold, he has a fiery sword and he’s grabbed himself a mage to throw. AND his mate has a 1940s moustache straight out of the RAF.

Maybe it’s because I got this when I was about 15 and ran my first campaign there? Maybe it’s because I now know that it resonates with the early history of the game and ties into the whole Egg of Coot/ Nosnra thing? Maybe it’s just a cool map? It was this or the Wilderlands of High Fantasy map...

You are using an Alt-Right trope of “woke left” to make a false equivalence to the religious right. This is disingenuous. I assume the “ I don’t expect to be here long” is a claim to some form of perceived martyrdom? Your response to Morris seems unnecessarily rude. I’m not sure what being...

I enjoyed reading your first post, but this one makes me less keen. The Religious Right were (and still are if we look at a recent SCOTUS horror-decision) a problematic group doing immense damage to our hobby, among other things. “Woke Left” seems to be a pejorative used by the Alt Right to...

As one of the aforementioned players, I am now very worried!

No!!!!! Bad memories. Playing a badly railroaded FR campaign and Drizzzzzzzzzzt shows up to slay our adversaries and save the day. Hated it. The fight took place on a bridge. No idea why I remember that? Maybe the bridge was more interesting than the campaign?

This piece of art is superb. Totally agree with everything you say about it. I played in this campaign, run by @TheSword , and it was brutal! My half-ogre cavalier, Gunther Von Panzerkrieg, was pretty brutal too...

Errol Otus points out that even Illithids suffer arachnophobia when druids come calling.