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I once DMed a game where an Elven wizard tried to cast Sleep on a bunch of Elves. (It was 3rd edition, so the chance of failure was 100%; I have an idea it might have been "only" 90% in previous editions.) I guess I'm an evil DM, because I didn't stop him from trying. (If it had been a human...

I'm sure I've seen a thread about that somewhere. (Maybe you did too?) There was some stuff on it that had never occurred to me, like Star Destroyers not carrying any tie fighters (since we never saw any launched in ANH other than from the Death Star).

I think the best use of canon is to inspire adventures. If it doesn't do that, what is the point of it? The worst canon actively closes off adventure ideas. For example, the first Pathfinder book about the multiverse said there weren't any Air Dragons on the elemental plane of air - why would...

According to Wikipedia, Liverpool is derived from Old English, not Welsh.

And also in Icelandic, for some reason, although it sounds it bit more like a slurping noise, in my opinion.

I pronounce it Llewelyn, since I've never heard anyone say it with a second LL. #eh wel in (with the # standing in for the ll sound)

The Map Men have a good video on British place names (no need to single out just England here!) Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?

That was the great thing about AD&D. You'd have a long write-up about how druids are nature priests, and believe really strongly in balance in all things, everything has a season etc. so must be true Neutral. And they lose all their powers if they ever stray from that alignment. Then someone...

Since this is 1st edition AD&D, the answer is probably eight years.

Dammit, now I want a full page of heraldry as well! I hope WotC doesn't listen to any misguided developers who suggest using the space to actually describe more places. Show me a purple shield with a white unicorn on it; what more do I need to know about the County of Ulek?

Since my University days (when we never completed anything), I think I've had two campaigns as a player that didn't complete - in one of them the GM got bored with the campaign after 10 or so sessions, and in the other I withdrew from the group as the playstyle of the other players didn't suit...

One of my (many, so far unfulfilled) campaign ideas is to run Souls, and then have the party equip their own expedition to Saventh-Yhi (if they are so inclined) and then run a modified version of the city, with competing groups of explorers turning up later on. So basically running the 1st...

I'm currently running Zeitgeist (PF 1e version) using Fate Core. None of us have ever played Fate before, or anything like it. We're most of the way through the 4th adventure, and so far everyone has been loving it. I'm finding it so much more relaxing than trying to run it in Pathfinder would...

I'm not Reynard, but I didn't think that was what they meant by their post. I took it more as a suggestion to look to see how Fate does it, with a view to maybe coming up with something similar in a 5e game. So I missed out on the laugh-out-loud moment you enjoyed.

Emphasis mine. I'm struggling to think of a (role-playing) game I have zero interest in. There are probably a few very-niche ones on itch.io I have no interest in (or would have no interest in, if I'd ever heard of them) but even then I'd happily listen to someone else talk about them, if...

You might find Anthony Huso's blog useful, since he went back to AD&D and has a lot of advice about how to play it. Blue Bard He also claims to be playing AD&D "by the book" which most people think is impossible.

That version of the puzzle seems a tad easy ...

I think the WotC campaign titles are intended to convey "buy this, it'll be awesome" rather than provide useful information. I'm always interested in new adventures, for any edition of D&D, but I've stopped buying WotC ones. The titles may have had something to do with it. For some reason...

I've only seen this once, in a 3rd edition game. The party were on some kind of floating platform, with another platform nearby. The whole area was shrouded in mist, and we had no idea how far down it was to the bottom. The armour-wearing fighter, quite strong but with no ranks in Jump...

Raging Swan has converted a few of their adventures to 5e, available as Print on Demand at Drivethru. This one is a pretty good short adventure for 1st level characters (at least, I like the Pathfinder 1e version) for £7.25. 38 pages, but about half of that is the description of the nearby town...