Recent content by John Dallman

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Guns stolen, King gives gold.

I don't seem to have one of these. I hoped Continuum would be compelling, but it wasn't. I had hopes of CthulhuTech, but could never get the lore straight. D&D4e I gave away before I was half-way through the Player's Handbook. I've managed to play or run pretty well everything that's ever seemed...

We've handed over the biological war to our home country's intelligence service, which is pretty efficient. We made some suggestions on further lines of enquiry, and then asked if there was anything else they wanted us to look into. Their response was: We have a record of blundering into things...

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon campaign: "You're gifted amateurs. Continue blundering."

Mother-in-law worse than the Abyss?

Maybe it's just the way this group plays, but we keep finding scenarios where strange alien ships are infested with parasites. We get rid of them, and the ships go on their way. The first was a bioship with parasitic worms, which seemed to be preventing its stutter-warp drive from operating...

Mongoose Traveller 2300, Bayern Campaign: “Our galactic society role: exterminators.”

Suggestion: When you have the PDF, put it somewhere it can be downloaded, and start a new thread explaining briefly, with a link to the PDF. Answer questions about it in that thread. Participate in other threads as a general gamer, without bringing your game into it.

I've used the Hero System luck roll in several games, including OD&D, AD&D1e and GURPS. As my co-editor wrote in The Path of Cunning #5, When personal characteristics seem irrelevant and one just wants a random outcome, we use a “luck” roll inspired by the Hero system mechanics: roll 3d6, count...

I'm afraid you are operating under a misapprehension. The denizens here are familiar, between them, with a large fraction of the thousands of RPGs that are available in English. Approximately none of them have a character concept that they want to play that they can't find a system to represent...

I have, a few times, been in parties that were travelling by sea and got attacked by pirates. This has never gone well for the pirates. On one occasion, in a party with a lot of wizards, an important question was raised "Do we want these pirates' ship?" Nobody did, so we set to work with Wall of...

I've been playing "Privateers of the Complications" under Honor & Intrigue fortnightly for three years. We started out from England in a fairly historical 1660 as "mundane" privateers (because we didn't know our ship's surgeon was a necromancer), but things got complicated quite fast. The...

We have returned to Avalon from Artemisia, where we prevented a war, to find that our home country of Landcentre is at war with the larger country of Greensward. Landcentre is doing quite well so far. Since we weren't immediately asked to do anything, we decided to investigate a rather virulent...

AD&D1.2e, Avalon campaign: Two wars now, one biological.

None of the options fit everything I run, because my practice varies considerably. It's quite rare for me to have creatures or people wandering around that will start fights, or that I haven't thought about in advance. I will sometimes decide randomly when something happens because prescribing...