After a short search the most critical source I found is this student project from Connecticut College. It seems to provide some detail for much of your timeline.
There is also an al jazzera article.

openpress.digital.conncoll.edu/beingukraine...

Thanks for taking the time for this.

Hey could you share some reporting on this? Maybe a timeline of events? I don’t know enough about Ukraine politics get any of these references.

The #compendium arrived today. Truly an arcane tome. Like something found in the inner sanctum of Dread Dormammu. Also pudding.

The Theory of the Labyrinth Zak S / Zak Smith /Zak Sabbath playing diy D&D (dungeons and dragons, dungeons & dragons) notes on playing RPGs w/fellow porn performers

One of those great RPG essays that immediately makes sense and adds another facet to how I think about the hobby that’s obsessed with since childhood. An instant classic.

Just about finished with a large block of dwarfs. RPG fandom has slowly merged over to miniature wargame hobbying.

Played a round of 5 Leagues from the Borderlands today, a solo miniature skirmish rpg game by @nordicweaselgames.bsky.social
My little boy participated. Great way to be a hobby nerd when mostly tied down by dadlife.

One time I ran a dungeon that I think is in this and it was rad.

the compendium—alllllmost 500 pages

Not a megadungeon at all. More of a one shot ish dungeon at a mega scale. Then there’s a huge wilderness area above. Looks really fun. Sholtis art and sensibility is great.

When I was young and carefree. In this case 10-13yrs old

I ran most of In Search of Adventure back in the salad days.

When I play with friends I’ve been playing a home brew based on Old DnD. Going to run a couple ADnD sessions with my students this spring. But mostly I play miniature games these days

Mythic Battles is great. It hasn’t hit the table in a la long while but really fun and challenging. And great models.

I keep saying Barrowmaze because I know it. I think all of them books in that series address a key issue with megadungeons which is getting stuck in them for too long. Flat modular structure is easy in/out for episodic play and allows a bigger campaign world to develop (in town etc)

I bought it. Like 8 years ago but I finally got Operation Completely Unfathomable by Jason Sholtis this year

Also Castle X is great. I would say similar prep to barrowmaze. Maybe a little more but still not much.

I know the feeling. Been stoked for dolmenwood for along time. My last campaign had elements of both actually.

Thinking about the factions, giving their leaders some names n stuff will definitely make Barrowmaze more fun. But you don’t need to do that to start.

Storm Kings Thunder was the high prep one. That campaigns a mess. It it fulfilled my bucket list of running a full on forgotten realms campaign. We had the poster map on the wall and the players enjoyed exploring.

Curse of Strahd is good. It the right size for a campaign setting. Just a little more stuff to do than the hero’s need to gain that xp to go back and brave castle. Lots of connection throughout. Very rewarding for our group.

Not all warhammer! #risingsun

And there have been some play successes to! The boy and I are calling the game Squid Wars because he plays as these tiny 3d printed octopi minis.

What I’ve been up to after the kids go down #hobbydad

WIP

What I’ve been up to after the kids go down #hobbydad

What I’ve been up to after the kids go down #hobbydad

What I’ve been up to after the kids go down #hobbydad
Whats this guys story?

These are all good. I’ve also had good no prep campaigns with the Barrowmaze books.

In recent years I had a good run with a couple friends in a home brew campaign world that contained all kinds of modules, dolmenwood stuff, HighFell stuff, a Cubeworld module and finally a long excursion in Xyntallin until parenting killed the time slot.