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We have returned to Avalon from Artemisia, where we prevented a war, to find that our home country of Landcentre is at war with the...

AD&D1.2e, Avalon campaign: Two wars now, one biological.

None of the options fit everything I run, because my practice varies considerably. It's quite rare for me to have creatures or people...

The encounters aren't random, but when/if they occur may be. :)

AD&D1.2e, Avalon campaign: Gained Accounting as weapon proficiency.

The poll and question seems to be asking two unconnected questions. Scripted assumes both tightly balanced and predetermined vs...

It really depends on the game. I like gritty, low power games where the PCs have to consider all fights to be potentially lethal. I...

Yeah, GURPS is more a RPG construction kit. You could never play with every rule and you aren't expected to.

If I recall, GURPS has lots of those dials, but you aren't required to use them all in any given campaign. It is meant to be customized...

This is definitely good terminology. I don't think that's an unbreakable rule. It may well be common, but it really depends on what...

Me too, which is why if I run something in that period, I'm always willing to be contradicted by facts I didn't know. I prefer running...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Campaign hiatus, GM is overcommitted.

A GM of my acquaintance includes a group of "outsiders" in his setting, who are interplanar refugees from a post-enlightenment Earth...

'Twas a mimic all along.

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon campaign: War approaches, possible biological attack.