u/brammmish

I played Heroquest as an 11-year-old kid back when it was first released. My friends and I loved it and played it often but I don't think we ever got further than quest 6 or 7 in the original book. I don't know what happened to my original copy.

I rediscovered it a few years ago whilst working as a teacher at a SEN college. An even nerdier colleague and I introduced some of our students to it, but time conspired against us, and we never got to play more than the odd quest or two.

I'm 48 now and bought a new copy a while back in the hope that I could coax my eldest son into playing it. He just turned 11. We played it for the first time last month and he loved it! It's now become a regular Friday afternoon activity, and we just completed quest 5. I'm so excited that I'm finally playing it comprehensively as a campaign, that he and I have a hobby we can share and I can't wait to get hold of some expansions.

Are there any home brew rules anyone could suggest? We play a hero each with the app as Zargon and so far it's not been particularly testing, which suits him, but it might be nice to switch things up a bit in case he gets bored.

This is a boring story.

Recently moved into a new house. Finally got everything unloaded, including a large box containing 5 large tins of paint. Stored it in the garden right next to the double patio doors whilst sorting out sheds etc outside.

It's a couple of weeks later now and everything is unpacked and in its place. Needed the paint but wasn't sure where I'd put it. Checked shed. Three times. Not there. Emptied and checked the two large indoor storage cupboards. Three times. Not there.

Our house is brand new and currently surrounded by unfinished, uninhabited houses. Access to our garden requires passing either two locked 7ft gates, or climbing over two fully enclosing 8ft fences.

There's literally nowhere else on our property where the paint could be, other than where I've checked, multiple times. It's just not anywhere.

As always, I imagine there's a logical explanation and I'm open to suggestions, mainly because I need the paint!

Hi, my son just finished primary school, where due mainly to his ASD diagnosis he's been flexi-schooled since Year 4, attending in the mornings and being home educated the rest of the time.

Our approach during KS2 has been pretty flexible and low pressure, allowing him to pursue his interests at home (history and science), and attending school for English and Maths. He never did SATS as we felt they'd be a source of unnecessary pressure. It's been mainly child led with appropriate guidance - he has no issues academically and mostly performed at expected or higher level but struggled with routines, expectations, time limits, etc.

He spends the majority of his free time reading non-fiction, mostly history and science related and we'd like to nurture this natural interest and ability whilst keeping it in line with the curriculum.

We made the decision to home school him full time as we think he'd struggle with the secondary school environment, socially and emotionally. He'll be attending forest school one day a week, and an alternate education/social provision either once a week or once a fortnight, leaving us with three days to fill.

I'd like to give him some kind of structure, and include curriculum aligned maths, English, science and history, as well as life skills and critical thinking skills, and a looking for a bit of advice from similar home educators who have more experience than I do!

His mum is a qualified primary age teacher and I have years of experience as a TA in a SEND 6th form but we're both new to this.

Thank you!

He has no hobbies as such. Doesn't need anything. Lives in a different city so I can't just pop round and take him out (although we are heading there for a surprise party for him).

He's a Man Utd fan and likes a beer but other than that doesn't really have interests.

I don't have access to any of his childhood photos and the rest of his family have passed away so can't reach out to anyone, otherwise a historical photo story might have been nice.

I considered an engraved tankard but that seems a bit lame.

My wife and I run a business and one of my regular jobs is to set up the location in the evening ready for the next day's session.

This usually takes just over an hour, and factoring in transport to and from the venue, it means the whole thing from leaving my house to returning home takes around two hours. If I'm on the ball and rushing, I can get the set up done in 45 minutes at a push, but that's the absolute minimum.

Last night I left my house at 19:15. I arrived at the venue and began work at 19:35. I didn't check the time again until I was almost home. I was hot and exhausted ad took my sweet time setting up, even stopping for a sit down drink break. I'd been lazy packing up last session and so set up took a little more work. It was definitely one of my slowest efforts.

As I got home I checked the time. 20:30. Seemed strange but I thought I must have misremembered when I started. However, when I got in my wife was surprised to see me and asked if everything was OK and why was I back so early. If she hadn't been as confused as me I'd have put this down to me getting my times wrong.

I'd been gone an hour and a quarter in total, when it had definitely taken me an hour longer than that. Even had I got there and back in record achievable time, and set up as fast as possible, one hour fifteen would have been a push, and yet here we were.

I'm sure there's a logical explanation but neither me nor my wife can explain it.

I've tried ChatGPT but it keeps going rogue and adding rooms and moving walls. Is there something out there I coukd use?

4-year-old's sports day and I proper decked it 5m into the dad's race in front of maybe 100 parents and their kids. I have brought shame on my family and tears to my child.

My brother, now 50, had a good friend in his early years and teens called Wayne Burtenshaw. He was nicknamed Winky Wayne as he had a squint. Good old eighties.

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A few years ago I learned from my dad, who'd always found him odd, that as an adult, he'd set fire to the house of his ex, killing her two young sons inside. For whatever reason I looked this up in the past year or so and sure enough found multiple reports of it online, along with photos of Wayne. I shared these with friends who had also known him back in the day.

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I just Googled him again and got no results. Absolutely nothing. I fed all the details into ChatGPT which also returned nothing, as if he, the crime, the newspaper reports, the photos had never existed. I tried alternate spellings of his name, changed the location, added that I may have been mistaken on some facts (although I wasn't), but still got nothing.

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I'm baffled.