Recent content by John Dallman

Continuum: a time travel TTRPG that sort of works for the time travel, but has a system, setting and backstory that are utterly bizarre, and don't make any sense to me. Cthulhutech: Again, the backstory is a problem. There's a lot of it up-front that you seem to need basic comprehension of to...

This kind of system has been used in many non-D&D games, starting with the first editions of RuneQuest and Chivalry & Sorcery, back in the 1970s. It usually works like this: Odds to hit are determined by skills, and if "Character Levels" exist, they are far less important than in D&D family...

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok: Confined to casino, with casualty.

GURPS 4e occult WWII, based in India. Agent caught, Anglo-Iraqi war averted.

It's August of the year 875. The party is in Lundenwic ("London Port") which is around the mouth of the River Fleet, about a mile upstream of Roman Lundinium. Our mission for Alfred is to find out where the Great Heathen Army is, who is leading it, and where it plans to attack this summer. We...

GURPS 4e in Alfred the Great's England: Fistfights as friendship rituals - Danes!

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon in Greensward: Interrogation unmasks opponent's henchman cultist.

Things have been a touch busy, but here you go: Characters: Simon Deacon, narrator and commanding officer. First Lieutenant, British Army Intelligence Corps, on indefinite loan to loan to the Commonwealth Security Organisation. Don Williams, zoologist working on his PhD, likes to wrestle...

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok, based in Australia: Plane, Manilla, plane, boat, Macao.

AD&D1.6e, Avalon campaign in Greensward: Henchmen defeated, noble family reunited.

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok: Kill "Octopus Angel," Island destroyed.

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon in Greensward First planned combat of campaign.

GURPS 4e Agents of Alfred the Great: Reached London, players learning culture.

AD&D 1.4e, Avalon campaign in Greensward. Entangles and arrows kill Iguanodon.

Mongoose Traveller 2300, Bayern Campaign Should have brought frozen surrealists.