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Until that post I had never seen it portrayed this way.

The posted specifically mentions it's to allow player agency, but you do you. What interests me is that it allows for not even having a group, and at the same time argues to leave some things in the air for player input.

Over on rpg.net someone recently noted that and I can't stop thinking about the implications.

GURPS WW2 Weird War Two - required reading for any secret history game leading into or out of the war - which is to say, the majority of the 20th Century The Knuckleduster Cowtown Creator - a perfect how-to for a setting. If you didn't want to play a western before you pick this up, you will...

The GM is there to run 99% of the world, and ideally that should be done in an entertaining fashion. But she has as much a right to be entertained as well.

The GM shouldn't have to motivate players in a strict West Marches game. The players are supposed to be deciding when to meet and who goes where.

The idea being, if a kid pokes around enough he will find the plastic dinosaur.

It's not strictly necessary, but the amount of time the DM spends creating the world before play is proportional to the amount of time it takes to gather information about a location and present it to the players once they get somewhere. Especially if the journey is unexpected.

I believe that's a sand table. A sandbox as it was originally used is a child's place to play where there toys can be found if they dig.

I assume there is a cost to acquiring a license - which, unlike the cost for the VTT or D&D Beyond access, you wouldn't be paying if you were DMing for friends - and some prep time that you can't bill for, in addition to you DMing for that period.

I came here to say 13th Age but will leave having said Dungeon World and Swords of the Serpentine.

My favorite thing about watching Traveller evolve is the steady increase in the chance that your randomly-generated gas giant had rings. I also wanted to add a note about Gurps Traveller - while the 4th edition book is set in the Interstellar War period, the 3rd edition books are set in an...

I found a great page with a cutaway view, but I was just wracking my brain looking for a game product.

I am going through my collection because I swear I owned something that has a map of a Cold War-style spy trawler. The best I can find is the d20 Modern Menace Manual, but I though there might have been something else. Does anyone have/remember a product that has a mapped out trawler for a game?

I did detect a necromancy aura when I cast.

Link please?

Four player actions and then bad things happen!

GURPS Traveller is this period as well, with 18 full size books and a handful of shorter titles. But in this timeline there is no rebellion so it's definitely a separate setting. This stuff was 95% third edition GURPS while Interstellar Wars was 4th. And beyond the 11,000 worlds of the Imperium...

The Imperium deserves special mention because you could set a campaign at a great number of times. There is playable setting material for the Interstellar War period, Year 0 of the Imperium, the Golden Age, the Rebellion, the New Era, and the alternate history where the Rebellion didn't happen.

As game publishers go, he's a heck of a tattoo artist.