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JI don’t think of losing hit points as a death spiral.
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JI really got into Glorantha (and BRP) when RuneQuest 3 came out. At the time, the whole system felt very elegant, and it scratched a...
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JJohn Dallman replied to the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib?.Oh, you can steer players into trouble even when you're letting them dictate what the adventure is about. I improvised an adventure in...
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JJohn Dallman replied to the thread It's the End of the World As We Know It: Apocalyptic Campaign Settings.Last night we started playing a Day After Ragnarok campaign, so that's definitely post-apocalypse. We're based in Australia, which...
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JJohn Dallman replied to the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib?.I prepare until I have a decent understanding of the situation as of the start of the session. This can be a lot of research, thinking...
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Limited prep. A one-page bullet point outline will easily get me 10-15 hours of play. -
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I note down a bunch of stuff ahead of time, but mostly adlib during the actual session. Adlibbing is easier when I know what to draw from.
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JJohn Dallman replied to the thread Describe your last rpg session in 5 words.GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok, in Australia. "Crikey!" means "I'm still OK."
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JJohn Dallman replied to the thread Describe your last RPG session in more than 5 words..The PCs we've been playing since spring 2020 are now between 19th and 14th level, and the GM is finding it hard to challenge them...
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JJohn Dallman replied to the thread Describe your last rpg session in 5 words.AD&D 1,2e, Avalon Campaign: Planning new strand of campaign.
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Postponed one week GM migraine.
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Handwritten character sheets work better
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JJohn Dallman replied to the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES!.One group I knew found a way to make it work: they had large tables on their character sheets of armour class vs armour type, with each...
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JJohn Dallman replied to the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES!.The groups I played in at college generally reckoned that the 1e initiative system didn't make sense, and used simpler homebrew methods...