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Hey, @Steampunkette , your first product is superb. I’m really looking forward to your future stuff. Cheering for you!

Seeing a good person succeed is a welcome feeling. You rock, @Steampunkette

The exact moment WOTC made this announcement, I didn’t actually notice because I was sat in a friend’s apartment, with four good mates, DM-ing a great 3PP adventure (shout out to Kobold Press and Scarlet Citadel) using 5e rules and playtesting the D&D1 stuff that’s been released already. We had...

Both Night Below and Return to the Tomb of Horrors for 2E were great fun to DM, and I think/hope my players enjoyed them too.

If I'm purely going for greatness, The Enemy Within for WFRP wins the "best ever" award, and I consider myself fortunate to be playing in it right now. Shout out to @TheSword as GM. If talking nostalgia, for me it will always be the Giants and Drow series from the late 70s/early 80s.

My two grandkids are desperate to see this movie. Looking forward to taking them

Loving this story hour.

Really like this idea. A resource like this could spark as many campaigns as there are regions in it; could even allow an aspect of shared continuity in multi-DM groups, with each DM running their game in a different setting from the book. If the regions are anything like the depth and richness...

My 13 year old grandson is about to run his first campaign (Dragon of Icespire Peak) for his 9 year old sister, my wife and myself. I’m sure he'll make a better job of it than I did back in c.1977 when Celetan the Wizard, Valon the Priest and Johan the Fighter entered the Dungeon of the...

William the Conqueror was born illegitimate from a relationship between his father, Robert, Duke of Normandy, with Herleva, daughter of a tanner in Falaise. Tanner was a particularly low status job, due to the smell of the process. Herleva must have been quite a woman, as she went on to marry...

Played D&D since 1976 and still playing it now. It matters little to me whether I’m playing the TSR editions ( though never NuTSR!), WOTC, Pathfinder, Kobold Press, Level Up: in all cases, I’m playing D&D. Always will be. I’m invested in the spirit of the game, in its history and in all the...

Brilliant action scene and the art is beautiful. Dante is a wonderful name for a little dragon; even the smallest fires can become an Inferno!

I will stick with D&D, though I also play Level Up and WFRP, and will stick with those too. I’m currently running Scarlet Citadel ( Kobold Press) and am likely to stay a lot closer to 3PP products than WOTC stuff. My next campaign will either be homebrew or Goodman’s dark Tower. It seems WOTC...

With all that’s going on in our hobby right now, it is so great to see a genuinely nice person like @Steampunkette succeed.

To the best of my knowledge (which might well be wrong), the Normans introduced the word “county” as an administration tool after 1066, though these new counties were actually the same as the old Saxon shires in terms of geography. Sheriff was, as you say, from shire-reeve. The use of counties...

@Omand is totally correct. By all means, have the title "Earless" in your campaign if you want, but it was never in use in medieval England. Earl was an Anglo-Saxon title, deriving from the Norse word "Jarl" and usually spelt "Eorl" until 1066. The Norman equivalent was "Comte", which gave rise...

These vassal barons that only indirectly answer to the Earl (not the ones who directly answer of course); surely one of them could marry the poor girl?

Is anyone going to marry the Earl's daughter?

I hope WOTC don’t ban these random tables your mate makes, as part of their new OGL policy.

This article, like this whole series, is fantastic. Thank you!