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Luckily, the Great Fire of London was not the portal for an invasion of Efreet; the Great Fire of Waterdeep just might be.......

It is Smaug. The artist was Tolkien himself, so it carries that little bit of extra resonance.

Apologies for a second bite at the cherry but I can’t help thinking that the piece of non-D&D art below has had a pretty significant role in our wonderful game.........

Greyhawk by a mile. Seems to be a wonderful fit for the 50th Anniversary too. I like Nentir Vale as a smaller campaign setting if that was the objective but it doesn’t carry the historical kudos of Greyhawk.

This cover from Dunsany’s classic. For me, as a young teen in the late 1970s, it showed a more whimsical, romantic fantasy to go alongside the Elric and Conan stuff and they all melded in my D&D gaming. Real Partha did a miniature which I always assumed was based on this cover painting, so...

A truly horrific monster! A whole mini campaign could be built around this wicked thing, and it would work just as well in a horror RPG.

I guess life gets in the way multiple times and in multiple ways. The school group I played in ended when we all went off to various universities in 1981. We did game a few times in holidays but relationships, sport, travel and holiday jobs got in the way. I did play in a group at university...

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...