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I believe that aliens have already found us and enslaved us. They call themselves Supreme Beings, Great Ones, Those Who Must Be Obeyed. We call them cats.

It makes me happy that at least a tiny portion of the vast sums I've spent on RPGs down the decades might have done some good.

Nothing screams "professional" like getting your legal advice from YouTube.

Not that I've read either of the books, but I get the impression that even AI would give them a miss.

Strongest or strangest, my vote is Spelljammer. Any reason why Darksun isn't listed? The potential controversies inherent in the setting, or just because you forgot?

I'm not sure whether it's officially set in the same world, but his short story "A Year and a Day in Old Theradane" is another hit and definitely matches the tone of the Gentlemen Bastards.

There used to be a text adventure up on the BBC site. I never managed to escape from getting crushed when the house is bulldozed.

The Dark Is Rising sequence.

D&D works best if it's about chucking dice, having fun with friends and taking neither the game nor yourself too seriously.

So BSoD might mean Bad Spirit of Dave?

B.S. of D.: Blue Screen of Death? Brown Shirt of Deutschland?

Water solidifying and then melting away?! Oh no, the end is nigh! Well, perhaps if you're a snowman.

Everyone should read MERP for the critical hit/fumble tables, if nothing else. They were a thing of beauty.

There are plenty of stones prettier than plain diamonds. Fancy coloured diamonds, for a start. Emeralds I can take or leave, for a green gemstone I prefer a nice tsavorite. Blue sapphires can be nice, but my favourite kind of corundum is padparasha sapphire.

Fungi that start growing on the PCs are always fun. Or large toadstools that are actually the homes of pixies.

I posted here a few years ago that for a magic user to progress from 10th to 11th (I think - I don't have my 2E books anymore), they'd need to single-handedly slay 9 Great Wyrms. I get that high-level characters were supposed to be rare, but surely not rarer than super-powerful dragons? In our...

As I recall, they toyed around with an idea that they tentatively called "668: The Neighbour of the Beast".

I read that as "Pilates".

Looks good!

There were instances when feudal (or feudal-ish) governments imposed price caps on goods, particularly farm produce, and on movement of people. This usually happened in times of upheaval: disease, famine. England and Spain, at a minimum, did this on occasion.