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French emigres from an ancient noble family, fleeing the Revolution in France, bring with them a relic, long held in the cellars below their chateau; the skull’s upper jaw has distended canine teeth. At midnight, the chime of the church bell in the village of Hartsdown strikes 13 notes. Yet the...

A fashionable spa town in the Southeast, where the waters, emerging from untold depths below the earth, are more than they seem. A pavilion in a coastal resort, built by the Prince Regent, in an eastern style, whose staff are devotees of the Goddess of Death. Psychic memories of the fear of...

A Neolithic stone barrow where a bloody cult meet on storm-riven nights, with one of its leaders being a senior Royal Family member The ghost of a former lover at the window of a lonely moorland farmhouse A high-sided, thickly tree-shrouded lane, where travelers trapped by its magic through...

When you write the adaptation of Ravenloft in Gothic Regency England, count me in as both a play tester and a buyer! Your description sounds awesome. I’m a historian and a lover of British folk tales so it ticks every possible box for me. Your few words may have created a new white whale.

Go for it regards the Northlands Saga. I’ve been lucky enough to DM it for a great group of players and it was brutal fun. I can still taste the salt of the bitter old seas, and still see the look on @TheSword ’s face as the gold, tied up in a blanket, slipped of the tilting ice floe, into the...

White whales ahoy! Great question and my answers in no particular order: 1 Dark Tower in the Wilderlands setting. I’ll probably DM this one. 2 To see @Steampunkette ’s awesome Sins of the Scorpion Age setting in print (and for Arkaeus of Myrkona to tread it’s jewelled thrones beneath his...

I like Critical Role a lot but, at the risk of being an old punk grognard, I saw the Boomtown Rats a couple of times in the late 1970s and wouldn’t swap out the experience. They were awesome. Hope it goes well though.

There might be a sequel in which the protagonists drink the magic “wake up, get real, grow a conscience and start being a decent human being” potion, and realise that “ Byden’s Garage” was all a lie, and that the real secrets were hidden in a false sarcophagus under a Golfimbul course, ready for...

This book sounds like shite! The synopsis is comically awful. The book is probably worse. And as for Lord George, Lady Eliza and Duke Justin; they’re as character-full as white, powdery dog faeces that’s been too long in the sun. PS I won’t be buying.

You could build a campaign around the young mage accidentally “casting” Cacodaemon whilst examining her inherited books. The demon, for whatever reason ( I’d go for another part of the inheritance, such as an otherwise unremarkable amulet), leaves the young mage alone but goes on to cause death...

You mentioned a “Noah’s Ark” near Eshkigal, from which magical beasts emerge to protect the city at times of peril: a powerful beast emerges, at a time of no obvious peril, to warn of an impending catastrophe. The beast ( dragon maybe?) is also the messenger prophecied among worshippers of the...

Nothing to add in terms of answers but thanks for the reminder about the magical stuff from JG back in the day. I still have nightmares about our crushing defeat by the Witches of Marmon!

Thank you once again for these awesome articles. I reckon I’ve played devotees of Ehlonna more than any other Greyhawk deity.

Would be a good album cover for bands such as Hawkwind or Wishbone Ash?

Good question. One answer I can give is the one you already know: I’m currently a player in the Enemy Within campaign, using WFRP4, which is great. The other would be A5e, which is the system for the Scorpion Age campaign, run by @Steampunkette , which is also fantastic. Many of the other...

Huge congratulations! The shop looks great and the opening day seems a real success.

Or a brave warrior/paladin pushing someone out(ish) from a fireball, giving them advantage on their save at the cost of disadvantage on the warrior/paladin’s save?

Good luck in this venture. The photos look great. It’s a fair journey from London, UK so I might not be able to drop by, but very best wishes.

We actually used a pit trap to our advantage this weekend: our mighty, but clumsy, paladin blundered into it, but miraculously rolled a 20 on his dexterity save and jumped back ( shout out @TheSword ). The pit closed. Next encounter was a couple of mummies in a nearby room, who were quiescent...

Until I retired, I actually was a Headmaster, but sadly my plan to rule the entire human race ever came to fruition. In retrospect, I needed to have enrolled 4 out of 6 of your PCs.