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These articles, just like the Dragon ones, are a wonderful insight to the history of the game. Thank you so much for your work here.

It’s a fantastic game and suits the grimy grittiness of the Old World so well. I’ve never GM-ed it, but am currently playing in two superb campaigns; Enemy Within (online) and Ubersreik (face 2 face), both of which are epic.

Back in the late 1970s, I painted some Minifigs “pig-faced” orcs, and stored them in an old cigar box, each wrapped in a piece of toilet roll. The orcs adapted an aroma redolent of both Havana, Hemingway and Hummel. That smell is the most wonderfully evocative smell of all time, and I would not...

Speaking only for medieval England, a female Earl is called a Countess. The likely explanation is due to the Norman Conquest of 1066. Prior to that “Eorl” was the senior noble title for Anglo-Saxon England, such as Godwine Eorl of Wessex and Leofwine, Eorl of Mercia. The title morphed into Earl...

The minis are great. More importantly, they are inclusive. Inclusion is a wonderful thing because it makes life better for many people. It doesn’t make life worse for anyone at all....... except for those who choose to let it enrage them, just because they need to hate. And these people need...

Leaving aside the actual gaming for a moment; one thing we did have in the late 70s and early 80s was loads of game shops, selling D&D, miniatures and loads of other games beside. They were like caverns of wonder to teenage gamers, and remain strong in my memory. Games Workshop when it was in a...

The brief descriptions of dungeon rooms certainly brought back memories. As a DM, I either negotiated graph paper from a friendly maths teacher or possibly stole it! Similar story with the lined exercise books for writing out the brief notes for each room. My first campaign was an inn and a...

Biggest loss: my white box Original set Second biggest: Night Below boxed set. Hey, life goes on........

Something very fishy is going on with your smallest country in history.

2.4 million population is actually pretty large for a “smallest country in history.” By comparison, Tuvalu is the smallest UN-recognised State IRL, with a population of around 12+ thousand. No silver dragons, though.

Agree. The enigmatic expression on the woman’s face as the ship came to a tragic end on the rocks: Mona Lisa reinvented as a blonde sea witch?

I think you could rephrase as lots of retired climate activists campaigning for a future for all who live on this planet. All the best for great gaming for your group in the future.

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.