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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.

I think that is just philosophizing about religion by way of gaming without actually interrogating what makes people religious and what...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Hans Kammler repents and surrenders.

If that's the same as in The Mote in God's Eye, it is similar, but the GM did not want to place jump points for convenience of plotting...

I like to keep descriptions short and to the point. I'm not going to give a lot of adjectives or such--"you're attacked by 4 giant...

It varies greatly depending on the campaign. Though I will generally rule out the idea that a whole town or city would be considered the...

The Banestorm setting makes an attempt at addressing some of the questions you ask. It is a setting where people from our world were...