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I know we all know it’s the name of the D&D group on Stranger Things, and the new D&D starter set, but I thought it would be fun to take a look at the origin of the real-world Hellfire Club! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club The Hellfire Club started by the Duke of Wharton in the...

I've literally never heard of them. So no, not everywhere.

And that is literally a dad telling his kid what's wrong with music today. And, more importantly, it's what your dad thought about your music. There's no getting round it. There's no secret hidden answer which makes you different to the other 2 billion dads on the planet. You don't like the...

I'll also reinforce this, albeit merely with a single anecdotal data point, that I don't play videogames (like, at all) and I find 5E to be just fine. Certainly 'this feels like a videogame' has never entered my mind, and if it it did feel like a videogame to me, I suspect that--like...

Sure. In my mind the mechanics are only there to serve a flavour, not vice versa. But we all play differently!

A theory I heard a while back is that your teens to mid-20s are the formative time when things ‘imprint’ on you, and that sets your preferences for the rest of your life. It’s why your dad hates your music and you hate your kids’ music. Your grandad hated your dad’s music. Your kid will hate...

So druids who transform into animals to do martial arts?

People shout at WotC when they do anything new. Or anything old.

I’m trying to imagine what it “is”. Do you have some flavour text? Is there a fictional character or archetype you wish to emulate?

They’d NEVER make a show with Sean Bean as a major lead and then behead him. …. would they?

I've been there a couple of times, and neither time did they tell me I had to keep quiet about it! :D

Is Portugal a secret?

And yet, it is still fun. (I predicted your reply almost down to the word, BTW! You’re nothing if not reliable! :) )

I disagree. You can make it interesting. We treat “Supply” (being food, water, firewood, medicinals, and other consumables) as basically party hit points. And exploration challenges and time passing use up that Supply. It works remarkably well. Messed up on the broken bridge challenge? You...

The short version of this question—D&D lacks a full exploitation pillar; what games feature one? I will of course (and predictably—but you did ask!) suggest our own Level Up: Advanced 5E which recognised this problem and built a fully-fledged exploration pillar into the game, baked in from...

I've never seen that art before, but that has not happened in the show (yet). I suspect it was just some advertising bod getting too jiggy with photoshop.

Cite? To determine that you'd need to do a thorough study of everything published, categorising each and every item as either publicly playtested or privately playtested, and then somehow gather some kind of objective quality rating for every rule, spell, feat, feature, monster, etc. I...

I don't like it when they pack so much in there you can't taste the beef. Or, as others have said, when it's stacked so tall you can't actually pick it up and bite into it. Sometimes less is more.