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'''Mr. Welch''' is a legendary figure amongst [[Grognards]] and other fans of [[Old School Roleplaying]]. A self-professed advocate of embracing the player archetype described as "the Loonie", Mr. Welch inspired the legendary joke list "Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG", which covers over ''two and a half thousand'' (2525, to be precise) crazy things that Mr. Welch has done in various roleplaying games. | '''Mr. Welch''' is a legendary figure amongst [[Grognards]] and other fans of [[Old School Roleplaying]]. A self-professed advocate of embracing the player archetype described as "the Loonie", Mr. Welch inspired the legendary joke list "Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG", which covers over ''two and a half thousand'' (2525, to be precise) crazy things that Mr. Welch has done in various roleplaying games. He is also quasi-famous for his article discussing in detail why Gandalf was actually a high-level fighter with a genius IQ, and then broke down how dysfunctional the Fellowship of the Ring was as a D&D party. | ||
In more recent years, Mr. Welch has become a figure of admiration in the OSR community for a less annoying reason. He is one of the world's biggest fans of [[Mystara]], the long-forgotten setting of Basic [[Dungeons & Dragons]], and has spent the last three years on Youtube creating videos to educate the younger generations of fans brought in by [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] on this lost setting. He has also been hard at work creating a full Player's Handbook for the Mystara setting with hopes of releasing it on the Dungeon Master's Guild, but this plan has been stymied for years now by WotC's absurd restrictions on not allowing any fan-submitted content to that site that isn't set in the [[Forgotten Realms]], [[Ravenloft]], [[Eberron]], [[Ravnica]] or [[Theros]]. | In more recent years, Mr. Welch has become a figure of admiration in the OSR community for a less annoying reason. He is one of the world's biggest fans of [[Mystara]], the long-forgotten setting of Basic [[Dungeons & Dragons]], and has spent the last three years on Youtube creating videos to educate the younger generations of fans brought in by [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] on this lost setting. He has also been hard at work creating a full Player's Handbook for the Mystara setting with hopes of releasing it on the Dungeon Master's Guild, but this plan has been stymied for years now by WotC's absurd restrictions on not allowing any fan-submitted content to that site that isn't set in the [[Forgotten Realms]], [[Ravenloft]], [[Eberron]], [[Ravnica]] or [[Theros]]. | ||
When Mr. Welch is not waxing nostalgic over Mystara, the greatest D&D setting ever, he reviews other RPGs from the well known like [[Deadlands]] or [[Traveller]] to the more obscure like [[Tephra]] or [[Street Fighter]]. He's even covered RPGs printed in other languages such as the [[The Dark Eye]] or [[Aquelarre]]. His videos are known for their in-depth research on the history and mechanics of the various games, putting images of Winona Ryder in every video, and frequently switching languages, often in the middle of the sentence. So far he's spoken German, Swedish, Spanish, French and Welsh. If you're lucky he will even subtitle those parts of the video. | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG - Provides easy links to the entirety of the infamous Mr. Welch list. | * https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG - Provides easy links to the entirety of the infamous Mr. Welch list. | ||
* https://www.youtube.com/c/thehgw - Mr. Welch's Youtube channel. | * https://www.youtube.com/c/thehgw - Mr. Welch's Youtube channel. | ||
Revision as of 00:12, 27 January 2021
Mr. Welch is a legendary figure amongst Grognards and other fans of Old School Roleplaying. A self-professed advocate of embracing the player archetype described as "the Loonie", Mr. Welch inspired the legendary joke list "Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG", which covers over two and a half thousand (2525, to be precise) crazy things that Mr. Welch has done in various roleplaying games. He is also quasi-famous for his article discussing in detail why Gandalf was actually a high-level fighter with a genius IQ, and then broke down how dysfunctional the Fellowship of the Ring was as a D&D party.
In more recent years, Mr. Welch has become a figure of admiration in the OSR community for a less annoying reason. He is one of the world's biggest fans of Mystara, the long-forgotten setting of Basic Dungeons & Dragons, and has spent the last three years on Youtube creating videos to educate the younger generations of fans brought in by Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition on this lost setting. He has also been hard at work creating a full Player's Handbook for the Mystara setting with hopes of releasing it on the Dungeon Master's Guild, but this plan has been stymied for years now by WotC's absurd restrictions on not allowing any fan-submitted content to that site that isn't set in the Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, Eberron, Ravnica or Theros.
When Mr. Welch is not waxing nostalgic over Mystara, the greatest D&D setting ever, he reviews other RPGs from the well known like Deadlands or Traveller to the more obscure like Tephra or Street Fighter. He's even covered RPGs printed in other languages such as the The Dark Eye or Aquelarre. His videos are known for their in-depth research on the history and mechanics of the various games, putting images of Winona Ryder in every video, and frequently switching languages, often in the middle of the sentence. So far he's spoken German, Swedish, Spanish, French and Welsh. If you're lucky he will even subtitle those parts of the video.
Links
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG - Provides easy links to the entirety of the infamous Mr. Welch list.
- https://www.youtube.com/c/thehgw - Mr. Welch's Youtube channel.