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I ran it a few times, always as one-shots. It needs to be played at breakneck speed, without thought or planning, so I found sessions...

Immersion in a work of art is a personal thing, so I can’t really offer meaningful insight into what works for other people. I can try...

The two long-term campaigns I mentioned are both set in an alternate-history WWII. That provides vast amounts of source material, and...

If my experience on Stack Overflow: Worldbuilding is any guide, there are quite a few people out who think that comic-book super-powers...

To describe it from the victim's point of view: You're the sole crewman on board the sub. The other three left two days ago to go onto...

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok, in Australia: Japanese mini-sub caught napping, captured.

I wrote about immersion at some length in issue 5 of The Path of Cunning, the GURPS fanzine I co-edit. It's a bit long to repeat all of...

Most fantasy settings certainly do. There are two homebrewed ones that I find interesting, and they have some common features: They...

I think the question is driving precisely around (or through) what you're saying---what properties must lore possess to make it such...

There is another form of skill, which is skill in operating as a team. This was forcibly brought home to me on Saturday, watching a...

If it's not clearly in the character's abilities, it needs a roll. Player skill in narration can get moderate bonuses to the roll. If...

Which in the situation described is basically "Wait, what? Did I not say it was lava?" I'm pretty sure in the past that I've had...

That seems to be the exception, brand new players. I'm not sure what happens or when, but at some point players lose the "interact...

I'm always puzzled with these threads because there isn't one answer. It's like asking 'how much bacon do you like on all meals...

I'm glad you highlighted that, because there are multiple meanings of "players skill" and sometimes people debating it are using...