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After leaving Lundenwic ("London Port") we needed to go north up Ermine Street, which starts at Roman Lundinium, about a mile down the Thames. We got a ferry across the River Fleet, a north-side tributary of the Thames, and followed a track to Lundinium. We talked to a sentry on the walls, and...

GURPS 4e, in Alfred's England: Bought and freed Saxon Slave.

Yes, I know. But that's a bit complicated to explain in-line in a thread.

I guess I have an agenda when I run games, though the phrasing is different: Give the characters freedom, but the NPCs may want to impose consequences if the characters are violent idiots. Show the characters interesting things they can do, but don't force them. Don't forget about the...

The situation wasn't very good at the start of yesterday's session. We had the artifact we'd been sent to Macao to get, but the owner had been shot before handing it over to us. He's still alive, but badly wounded. There are multiple armed men outside the front and rear doors of the casino who...

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok: Pulp Reservoir Dogs in Macao.

I've read it, but not played it. It uses the normal GURPS 3e combat system. It has not been revised for 4e, or released as PDF because there was a falling-out between SJ Games and the old White Wolf company.

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon in Greensward: Scouting ground for prisoner exchange.

GURPS 4e in Alfred the Great's England: Making Danish friends via wrestling.

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon in Greensward Going well; shoes will drop?

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...