Recent content by John Dallman

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok: Recruit professor? No, he's Tainted!

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon in Greensward: Found the (OMG! OMG!) scenario.

Mongoose Traveller 2300, Bayern campaign: Found two different failed expeditions.

Back when I hosted evening sessions, we ordered delivery from a place that did good Chinese, fish & chips, pizza and burgers. Everyone just told me what they wanted and I placed one order. No, we didn't save money on large pizzas, but the saving in hassle was easily worth it.

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok Enemies crash in car chase.

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon in Greensward: Attempted enemy agent readily doubled.

In my own D&D setting (running since 1979), printing was introduced during play. This caused some brief newspaper wars, in the style of the British tabloid press, until people got used to them. In the setting where I mostly play now, printing exists, and one country issues a guide to monsters...

Four is more to my taste, simply because players in their fifties or older tire faster. To refine this a bit, it's definitely part of a campaign that has well-established characters*. There's development of the campaign narrative, opening up new possibilities. At least one of the characters...

I fear we will never agree over this. The sole piece of Star Wars media I've ever taken in was A New Hope, in 1977 on its first run in the cinema, at age 16. I found it pretty dull, and have never wanted to see any more. I've read some of the terrible struggles people have trying to do Star Wars...

"It's part of the act."

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon in Greensward: Settling into lord/village politics.

OD&D, and AD&D1e. I have characters from 1979 that I still play occasionally. AD&D2e didn't seem worth the cost and effort of changing over. 3e had "atmospheric" production that made it very hard to read for someone with my collection of sight defects. 4e was very legible, which enabled me to...

GURPS 4e occult WWII campaign, neutral countries strand: Mystery ship sighted from Ascension.

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok: Mistakenly summoned South China sea-serpents.

Mine seems to be about getting India through the war and to independence in the best shape possible. The PCs work for the Indian equivalent of MI5 and have spent a lot of their time countering German and Japanese spying and subversion.