Mr. Welch
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.
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.
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.