Joël of the FoS said:
Ask them to bring you the best 6 pack you can find from Québec : 3 bottles of St-Ambroise and 3 of Boréale rousse (red). Amazing stuff. Or better, give me their address, and contact person, I'll bring them the six pack and make sure you get it.
Sounds great to me! My contact at Alchemic Dreams is Aurelean Merville, and the address is 21051 Succursale St. Marc, Shawinigan, Quebec.
That is cool about Québec, we are part French (and love French wine), part Brit (the love of port wine and good quality beer).
Excellent, French wine, British port and sherry too, along with their beer and ale...and maybe cheeses from both
I have to say that my daughter is now amazingly proud that the creator of the D&D game said something good about her

She wants you to know the monster book is one of her fave one.
As the father of six children, three of which are girls, I am most happy to be of service to all children, Greatest thing in the world, those
“yacking instead of hacking”
Ok, sorry for the misconception. I was under the impression that the first D&D books were not saying much about role playing. It is probably from my own experience then (I play mostly with engineers, the best optimizer people I know!).
I have to admit I didn’t these essays you mention. Can we find these online?
Joël
Hacking is far and away the favorite occupation for RPG players.
the misconception is logical, as little effort was made to encourage roleplay and conversation. As with traps, we rather assumed the players would be astute enough to figure out on their own when it was appropriate to attempt conversation.
The series of generally humorous essays was run in
Dragon magazine around 2002-3.
Rob Kuntz is completing a series of his own similar tales, and when he has done so, I'll expand on my work a bit and we hope to publish the compilation as a hardback book, possibly through Piazzo, although we haven't approached them on this yet.
Cheers,
Gary