D&D General D&D is so mainstream...

... that 5,000 miles and an entire continent away from where it's made, the BEHOLDER is a drink in a pub.

Mainstream media outlets regularly feature D&D, as do popular TV shows like The Big Bang Theory and Stranger Things, and now it's in pubs across the world!

The pub in question is The Hobbit, in Southampton. The ingredients of the Beholder appear to be melon liquer, blue curaçao, and vodka energy.

 

[Tormyr]

Hey Morrus,
I went to university in Southampton in the 1980s and still hold the city in great regard.
I’m probably spending a couple nights back there in early 2022, and this looks like a must-visit. Whereabouts in the city is it?
Thanks in advance.

Google is your friend: The Hobbit Pub · 134 Bevois Valley Rd, Southampton SO14 0JZ, United Kingdom

 

[Anselyn]

Google is your friend: The Hobbit Pub · 134 Bevois Valley Rd, Southampton SO14 0JZ, United Kingdom

You may be interested to know that locally "Bevois" is pronounced BEE-vis - and this is why:
Bevis of Hampton - Wikipedia. It's quite an adventure!

 

[GuyBoy]

Google is your friend: The Hobbit Pub · 134 Bevois Valley Rd, Southampton SO14 0JZ, United Kingdom

Thanks. I know the building well, though as a different pub; I used to walk past it most days on way back from uni to our student house in Derby Road. And, yes, if you remember Southampton in the 1980s, life was “interesting” in Derby Road!

 

[embee]

they should have to find proof....which is in the (black) pudding

It's even worse...

According to the actual saying, the proof OF THE pudding is in the eating.

I suggest using a wooden spoon, as the Black Pudding will dissolve a metal one.

 

[Jimmy Dick]

That's some nice artwork too.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

This is her look when you drink too much.

Added to things I cannot unsee…

 

[Erdric Dragin]

Mainstream D&D is what ruined the game for me. Anything popular usually gets ruined as the game morphs into something far too different and leaves behind those who wish to stay more conservative about it and who wish their style could be more supported. Wish it stayed niche. We had such great products and a vast number of them pre-4E days.

One day WotC, or some other company, will do the smart thing and support ALL editions. Be nice if the DMs Guild opened up permission to publish D&D material for ALL editions, instead of 5e only which is crap. It'd be nice to see a 3.5e version of some of the 5e adventures, newer monsters, and more. Or an Expanded Incarnum book, a Fiendish Codex 3: Yugoloths, a Tome of Psionics book, Monster Manual VI, and more.

 

[NotAYakk]

I absolutely want to run a mini-campaign where players must find freedom, beauty, truth and love.

Beauty is obviously in the (central) eye of a beholder. Truth is in wine (a giant pool with some very drunk sahuagin in it), and love is in the (elemental plane of) air... not sure where to find freedom yet.

Well, propoganda:

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I absolutely want to run a mini-campaign where players must find freedom, beauty, truth and love.

Beauty is obviously in the (central) eye of a beholder. Truth is in wine (a giant pool with some very drunk sahuagin in it), and love is in the (elemental plane of) air... not sure where to find freedom yet.

You could go full Orwellian…

A quote from 1984

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

www.goodreads.com

 

[darjr]

Mainstream D&D is what ruined the game for me. Anything popular usually gets ruined as the game morphs into something far too different and leaves behind those who wish to stay more conservative about it and who wish their style could be more supported. Wish it stayed niche. We had such great products and a vast number of them pre-4E days.

One day WotC, or some other company, will do the smart thing and support ALL editions. Be nice if the DMs Guild opened up permission to publish D&D material for ALL editions, instead of 5e only which is crap. It'd be nice to see a 3.5e version of some of the 5e adventures, newer monsters, and more. Or an Expanded Incarnum book, a Fiendish Codex 3: Yugoloths, a Tome of Psionics book, Monster Manual VI, and more.

Look at the OSR, I believe new material is being made to this day for older editions.

Also all four of those books, I think, could be done under the OGL.

Go forth and create! WotC has done you a favor and made it all possible. Unless the requirement that it be on the DMSGUILD is, somehow, essential.