Our Real Life Adventures series takes a look at unique sights, interesting places, and curious landmarks in that most fabulous of realms . . . the real world! Whether they be tours of spots directly related to gaming’s rich history, or places that are just flat out amazing or weird, our Real Life Adventures can serve as inspiration for your own tabletop gaming — be sure to check out the other articles in this series for more! Real Life Adventures: A Return to Quasqueton, Iowa by Tim Wadzinski I’m part of the team that worked on Original Adventures Reincarnated #1: Into the Borderlands, which reprinted, expanded, and converted to 5E the seminal D&D modules B1: In Search of the Unknown by Mike Carr and B2: The Keep on the Borderlands by Gary Gygax. Carr named the dungeon in B1, the lair of warrior Rogahn the Fearless and wizard Zelligar the Unknown, the “Caverns of Quasqueton,” after a small town in Iowa. He never actually visited the town, but he knew of it from his travels and liked the sound of the word. Earlier this year I undertook a pilgrimage there and that story can be read here. I’ve been in touch with Carr since that time and he was amused by my story enough to begin planning his first visit to Quasqueton, after all these years. He came up with an idea for a fun promotion, a bumper sticker that reads “Quasqueston: Former Home of Rogahn & Zelligar,” and wound up printing hundreds to be given away at various events. He unveiled them at Gamehole Con in Madison, Wisconsin, this past October. Carr generously gave a large number of stickers to Goodman Games, to be handed out at the booth in the vendor hall. He also stated plans to include them in swag bags for the next editions of Gary Con and Gen Con, as well as to give some to the museum run by the Quasqueton Area Historical Society. He informed me he decided to finally visit the museum in November as part of his inaugural trip out to Quasqueton, and he invited me to join him. We reached out to Corinne Love, the President of the Historical Society, and the wheels started turning for an event that would see us speaking about Quasqueton’s place in the history and lore of D&D… Little did we know what Ms. Love had in store. A press release was sent out to local TV stations and newspapers, communications went out via social media, and Carr wound up doing an interview for The Gazette out of Cedar Rapids, which can be read here. As an amazing last-minute bonus, Carr’s former TSR colleague Harold Johnson joined him on the drive from the Lake Geneva area out to eastern Iowa. (Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during that road trip…) Carr, Johnson, my wife, and I all rolled up to the museum simultaneously on a sunny Saturday afternoon and were greeted by some nice advertising on the city sign. (Side note: Arch Zenopus from the Zenopus Archives blog noted the text “City of Quasqueton” appears to be written in Futura, the font of the Holmes D&D basic set that included a copy of Carr’s original B1.) Upon entering the building, we were greeted by Ms. Love, her son Fred (a game designer and contributor to EN World), their family, and about 10 docents. They led us upstairs to a large room where we’d be giving our talk. It was a pleasant surprise to see the stairwell’s walls adorned with photos I’d sent her from my prior visit and from when Goodman...