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Exactly. You want cataclysmic events in your setting's past so you can encounter such places.

Not quite. Just time will lead to these ancient ruins having been plundered thrice over before your adventurers ever set sight on them...

Much of my gaming is in the world of Glorantha, whose major apocalypse is called the Gods War culminating in the Greater Darkness...

Put simply it is a name designed to cover both fantasy and science fiction. White Dwarf being the name of a type of star and the fantasy...

1 - If I could switch to another system: I may not be as comfortable running Questworlds (previously the HeroQuest rpg) as I can run...

I don't think D&D is remotely going to be a good model for "real-world skill development", so I'm not sure why you used it in your...

Hârnmaster from 1986. Recommend? Well... Great setting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A2rnMaster

I made this a couple of years ago. Whacked it up on a website. I've run it a few times in a pinch at conventions or when players haven't...

I cannot really say how often I have read through the Lord of the Ring or some of my other favourite fantasy classics, and while they...

A Golden Age rpgs: for whom, exactly? Measured as income or growth for WotC as the market leader? I have no idea about 6e (or for that...

I decided to vote "a balance of realistic and cool". While I grew up and lived in a naval port (Kiel, Germany) for most of my life, I...

In SF role-playing games, fleet encounters serve as a reminder of sovereign or projected power of some faction or authority, usually...

While the honorverse has keyhole space anomalies connecting distant systems in almost no time, there is a more pedestrian FTL drive "in...