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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...

Depends what you mean by D&D lore. If you mean stuff by the “official” company (TSR or Wizards), I’d say there’s not a whole lot to choose in terms of amount of lore, or its richness. However, if we are looking at what 3PP has brought to the lore, then 1st, 3rd and 5th win out to my mind...

Yes, the disguised future King was right to help. It’s always right to help those in need. His next step should be to declare a people’s republic and redistribute wealth so that nobody is ever in such dire need again. Might run up against some opposition, of course, but, hey, it’s your dream.

I love carrion crawlers! I have used as a bit of a side-quest to recover a magical weapon that belonged to a warrior slain by the creatures but never more than that. I guess this supports the OP’s question. Both the ideas expressed above are great.

Well, if you do end up running this, I'll probably be one of the players! so I'll get my retaliation in first: I like the idea, but not so keen on base-building, though if you have ready made "base" or bases; pockets of civilisation holding out, possibly with the need to cross the infected and...

Is black pudding a thing in USA? I mean the food item, not the monster. I’ve travelled a lot in USA and never seen it, but admittedly I haven’t really looked. It’s not exactly major-league popular in UK, but it does appear on most cafe breakfast menus, especially in the north.

I last fought a carrion crawler about two weeks ago; my grandson is running Dragons of Icespire Peak, as a first-time DM, and there was one in an old silver mine. I first fought a carrion crawler when Jimmy Carter was President! I have fond memories of the roper in Forge of Fury, but they’re...

I’ve either used or encountered all of these in the last two years, except the intellect devourer.

I was going to answer your question but then I rolled a 15,27,80, 09 and 62 on my mate’s ex-partner’s table, which meant that I have a sister that I never knew about, who is married to an owlbear (but not the owlbear in the D&D movie; a different owlbear) and their son is a long-dead vampiric...