Recent content by John Dallman

As a GM, pacing is a dramatic tool and a way of accommodating the players' interest levels in different bits of the scenario. For example, I've run most of the last couple of sessions of Cold War Pulp quite slowly, because the characters are trying to figure out some alien technology and the...

It depends on how the cosmology is used. Having it be important all the time, for every character, seems like concentrating too much on one aspect of a setting. Having it be a background thing that shapes aspects of the world is good, it makes the setting distinctive as opposed to generic...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Nazis "Oh, no, it's you!"

Every group I've played AD&D1e with did it a little differently. One DM of my acquaintance reckoned he'd figured out the RAW and tried to apply it in a large scenario. The players enjoyed making his system give ridiculous results in a different way each round. Don't challenge mathematicians if...

No session, GM's computer sick.

The session before last, a party of troops from the empire showed up, with two demands: The convocation of priests that's developing should happen in the capital. The foreigners (the PCs) appear to have entered the country without permission. They should come to the capital to sort this out...

AD&D1.2e, Avalon campaign: Recruited Olive Nymph, Athena's Owls.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp Antarctic tunnels with working vehicles!

AD&D1.2e, Avalon campaign. Now I only speak Greek!

Mongoose Traveller 2300, Bayern Campaign: Wormed alien bio-ship, it departed.

Initiative has to be individual, and the GM has to be able to reconcile the different systems and produce a sequence. Then it works.

I'm surprised that this is an unusual idea. At conventions, I've played games with all kinds of mixtures of characters. I think my record was a heroquest at the first Convulsion that had AD&D1e, AD&D 2e, RuneQuest II and Marvel Superheroes characters. There might have been more, this was 35...

GURPS Goblins: "Mission successfully completed." "You what?"

I use the site to keep up with news, and get tastes of other groups' ideas. This is the only forum on the site I try to keep up with.

The political situation is rather complicated. We're in the word of Artemisia, where the human areas worship the Greek gods. Our priestess of Artemis seems to have been picked by her goddess to change the political situation. The human-populated areas are a small fraction of the continent, all...