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I love DM-ing overall. I also have been blessed by having so many great players, who buy into the implied social contract of the game, specifically in regards of fun for all, including the DM. One minor, and very occasional dislike, is if a player blames the ruleset or game system for something...

St Swithin is kicking butt! I work part time on a vineyard since I’ve retired and it’s been so wet since Xmas that I feel like I’m a water elemental. Then today we had a massive thunderstorm; a vineyard with thousands of 8 Foot steel poles supporting the vines is not a good place to be in an...

I can, and do, look back to playing as a kid in the late 1970s/early 80s, with glasses that are tinted with a whole garden of roses. Similarly, I also loved the days of 3e, gaming with many of the friends I still game with today, including the OP of this thread. But there is no question in my...

It was actually Southampton Uni, so your dog would have been welcome……if he’d been around in the early 1980s!

Of course, one of the amusing things about playing sport, in my case rugby, to University level is when you talk to Americans and casually mention, “I played rugby for my university”, their eyes light up and they picture you running out in huge stadiums, with tens of thousands of fans. My rugby...

Now the NFL is all very well, and I watch it weekly. It sure beats football/soccer IMHO. But rugby! Rugby is proof that if a deity exists, they are a sports fan and gifted us with the William Webb-Ellis moment. Go England!

All this savoury food talk requires British desserts of course, so: Bakewell Tart (or to be strictly Derbyshire, Bakewell Pudding) is the king here, but honourable mentions to Apple Crumble, Spotted Dick and the southeastern speciality, Gypsy Tart.

Hi I’m British, originally from London, but now living in Maidstone. And I detest Marmite with a passion.

Silverymoon is the San Francisco/Woodstock/Glastonbury of the setting, where everyone wears flowers in their hair (and possibly listen to the Grateful Undead).

I ran Scarlet Citadel for our monthly in-person game and got very positive feedback from the players. I did ensure there was a theme running between the dungeon itself and the local homebase , a small town, by linking the town’s mayor and another prominent NPC to a significant villain within...

I’m not running it but I am playing in it, if that perception is helpful at all? We are having a blast. The factions are really engaging as a concept; we have worked with all of them to varying extents, and they also provide a healthy tension within the party because we each lean towards...

Very true. We already had experience of this, having skedaddled pretty rapidly from Executioner Square! It was exit, pursued by wraiths. What made this one worse was that the others flew back towards Emberwood, utilising the giant eagle polymorph, leaving my poor rogue to sneak back to Temple...

Thank you for writing such an engaging and excellent story. I have enjoyed it immensely. I wish you the very best in your writing career; you deserve success.

Spoiler Alert; Last weekend, we played a session of Drakkenheim where we got our butts comprehensively kicked, but it was an awesome game regardless. Having assisted the Knights of the Flame in liberating one of the gates from the beastmen/gnolls, the party shadowed the fleeing survivors back...

Glad you’re back.

IMO he should/could write professionally.

Very sad to read this news. Jean Rabe touched many lives for the better.

Epic fight. I have really come to care about the characters, which speaks of your skills as a writer/storyteller, and of the players themselves.

Enemy Within is probably the champion here, but I’d also give praise to RHOD and Carrion Crown from relatively recent times. Going back further, I’m a big fan of the GDQ series and the wonderful Night Below.

Another point in favour of WPM, particularly for its time, was the wilderness map around the mountain, which encouraged the DM to flesh out adventures including bog mummies, gags and undead dragons. Of course it wasn’t perfect but I still think it’s a classic.