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I think I’ve run Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, in various iterations, more than any other adventure. It’s certainly flawed but it will always be number one in my heart for gaming.

I own Borderlands and initially bought it to scratch the nostalgia itch of both playing and running the original decades ago. In the event, I’ve ended up running it as an old school “filler game” for my face-to-face group in the event that someone can’t make a session. It’s gone down really well...

Looks great. NFL is the greatest sport in the world (apart from rugby, of course!) and D&D is the greatest game. They mesh!

Thanks once again for this article. Like you, I made liberal use of Urdlen as an evil deity in my campaign at the time.

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Best wishes both for getting better and the writing projects.

If you ever make it over, let me know. I’ll show you some Roman ruins, Iron Age forts, Neolithic burial sites and (of course) medieval castles in the London/SE region. Genuine offer. Alnwick is in the NE, but definitely worth a visit ( Bamburgh Castle is close to it as well as Hadrian’s Wall)

The Bloodflower is a beautiful monster. Truly scary. Alnwick Castle in UK has a wonderful Poison Garden, full of (as the name suggests) dangerous plants. The Bllodflower would fit in just fine to a fantasy version.

NZ sure is a beautiful country. Planning to visit in a couple of years to marvel at the scenery, meet people, geek out at the LOTR stuff and take in some rugby.

You can buy a chocolate-coated version, but the actual mint cake is pretty much just mint and caramelised sugar. Lots of energy and that “ clean teeth” feel, but pretty unhealthy.

I know I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating; these articles are awesome.

“ That’s the last of the mint cake,” said Sam, wistfully, as they huddled together on the stony mountain slopes of Mordor.. “Oh, Sam,” whispered Frodo, his drawn features breaking in a rare half-smile, “ how I wish we were back in Kendal.”

You can get pemmican in UK but only really in outdoor shops in the more “outdoorsy” areas of the country (Lake District, Highlands etc). I loved Kendal mint cake as a teenager, but find it a bit too sweet nowadays.

Energy bars are so great for hikes; I always think lembas! Back in the day, we had Kendal mint cake. Is that a thing in USA?

Hopefully Luke will appear in it. Hopefully Ernie won’t.

Wow! Superb read. Thank you so much.

Very good in a Steampunk setting or Victoriana of some kind.

I'm 59 and was also playing the kind of OD&D that this Alex bloke was playing in the 1980s, and I hated fascists then and I still do, whether they're dressed up as Alt-Right, MAGA, NuTSR or whatever crap labels they spout in support of their performative hatred and false victimhood. And just as...

In late 70s/early 80s UK, the punk scene was hugely important to me (though I no longer have green spikes hair nowadays!) but it’s influence on my D&D was probably more in terms of attitude ( as @Ralif Redhammer suggests) than in actual gaming culture. I leant a lot on the books I’d read...