Recent content by John Dallman

Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice is done by a couple of friends of mine, and is pretty good.

That has become a trope in its own right. The correct response from PCs is normally attacking. Quite a lot. I don't worry very much about them being ordinary people (ordinary people wouldn't attempt the things that PCs try), but I do care about their feelings and motivations, and having them be...

I don't put traps in for their own sake. They get put in scenarios by inhabitants who are trying to defend themselves, and how good they are definitely depends on the resources available. One of the simplest, but most effective was a large net, coated in pitch, and hanging from a ceiling. It...

Not exactly a purchase: a playtester's complimentary copy of GURPS Gun Stats, a supplement that lets you create GURPS stats for firearms from information you can research.

GURPS 4e Day after Ragnarok, in Australia Japanese commandos, not Deep Ones.

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon Greensward campaign. Now we're getting real information!

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications Party dissolved, story is concluded.

Mongoose Traveller 2300, Bayern Campaign Ancient horror in (SPOILER). Flee!

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok, Australia. Serpent cult, veterinarian was leader.

AD&D 1.6e, Avalon campaign in Greensward Reached home area, started observing.

July 1940. We are in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, on the never-ending quest to transport the Duke of Windsor, and his wife, to the Bahamas, of which he's been appointed governor to keep him out of the way. We came here to get US currency, since after we fly across the South Atlantic via...

GURPS 4e occult WWII campaign, neutral countries strand: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications. Learning El Dorado culture, tattoos.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. It works well, and our GM was able to translate Pathfinder 1e scenarios on the fly without difficulty.

It varies widely, over the course of a campaign. The stuff I run is generally semi-historical investigation, without much in the way of fights. My current campaign had the first killing by a PC in the 19th session. When I'm in the early stages of a campaign and feeling out the setting, there...