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It’s arguably the best of the original stories (and the last written I think). If you have read the module you will know the gist. Conan and Valeria stumble into an advanced lost city and meet some degenerate cultish survivors who are locked in a deadly civil war. They end up all killing each...

Conan story that was the original inspiration.

Top hats and bustles? Nope, not seeing any of that. What we are seeing are two things. A recognition that all that magic the PCs wield must have an effect on the society they live in. I.e. Magitech, which is most definitely not Steampunk. And a recognition that since D&D fashions have never...

Sure. That's fine. But don't try and claim that it's medieval unless you are actually doing medieval. Call it genericfantasyland or something.

And my point is all these things are equally not remotely medieval, but they are all very much D&D. This thread is all "I am going to define something that is not remotely Medieval as Medieval and complain that it is turning into something that I am going to call Steampunk even though it is not...

The problem is, it looks like its trying to be historical, and failing. Wolf Hall deliberately put a different twist on the history-what-everyone-knows, and thereby is a worth watching TV show. This looks like it's just doing a bad job at regurgitating a tired history lesson. Lucy Worsley...

Yeah, I think the person doing the update must have read Red Nails beforehand to get the feel.

I can't believe you missed out Monty Python and the Holy Grail! I'm not sure how you are connecting Name of the Rose with Tristan and Isolde. The later is a mythical story stet in the time of Arthur (whenever that happened to be), whist the former is a 20th century historical fiction novel with...

It's a really good collection. Good original adventures updated skilfully. I've only run Barrier Peaks from it so far (and Lost Caverns in ye olden days).

Whilst I wouldn't disagree with you, I think you may be overstepping the forum's "no politics" rule there.

The thing I noticed, having seen the Disney movie long before reading the book, is I had assumed that all the silliness with sentient mustard pots and time travelling anachronistic Merlin was down to Disney. But nope, it's in the book.

There are a lot of different versions of Arthur. He has been around for a long time, and when his popularity swings around again he is reinvented to suit the period in which the stories are being told. So the answer is: anything you like.

This looks very meta to me. Like its deliberately trying to look like an 80s B movie.

You don't need a robot to turn ultrasound into frequencies audible to humans though. A common bat detector does that. It's possible, I guess, that the calls are being deliberately targeted at Wendy.

If humans behaved rationally to conserve scarce resources they wouldn’t be in that situation in the first place.

I haven’t been anywhere. Everything I know about America I learned from D&D. Like other people seem to have learned their history.

The “vibes” I get from early D&D are Wild West. Nothing remotely medieval. Which is why I’m asking people to explain what they mean. So far all they can come up with are things that have always been around, or never existed, like wizards in robes and pointed hats.

Things that have been around since the Iron Age and are still used now. (Bronze age for armour). Pretty sure wizards never existed, and “cunning men” didn’t were robes and pointy hats. Several castles within 30 miles of were I live. At least one is still lived in by a king. I know a few of...

Early modules, such as Keep on the Boarderlands, Village of Hommlet etc. it’s the same Wild West stuff that you find in Howard and Burroughs.

I’m familiar with the word. What I can’t see is anything in D&D that is identifiable as distinctively medieval.