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US law seems to have much more entertainment value than English law at present. I admit my reasons for this impression are not fully representative, but there are several of them. NuTSR's cases. The legal entanglements of a current presidential candidate. Lowering the Bar's stories.

There can be nuance in these things. I'm playing in a group that's working through the Pathfinder 1e version of the Kingmaker adventure path. We're doing it under GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, but that doesn't really affect this. We're emissaries of a Lawful Good kingdom, so we're trying to spread...

A general rule of submarines: whatever you think is the least space that could be provided for a purpose, there's less than that.

Honour & Intrigue privateering campaign: Found our ship, dodged warship.

Monday group: always Monday, almost always 19:30, coordinated through the same Discord as we use for voice while playing. Wednesday group: always Wednesday 19:30, two campaigns running alternate weeks, coordinated through a e-mail list. If people don't read their e-mail, they don't know what's...

All of our lists are inevitably shaped by our formative experiences. I'd list: RuneQuest 2e or 5e as an example of really big world building. Champions as an example of detailed character design and unified mechanics. Amber Diceless as an example of doing it really differently. Call of...

AD&D1e, the Avalon campaign. We have been evacuating the assets of a provincial cathedral of the Church of Mammon, god of wealth. The cathedral and the surrounding provincial capital were wrecked in "Skyfall," an orbital bombardment that took place a few game years ago, but the vaults were...

Logistics, logistics, logistics, rumbled, depart.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Pathfinder Kingmaker. Barbarians defeated, into the tomb.

DM has Covid, session cancelled.

Whereas to me, it mostly means "I want to have some effect on the setting." That pretty much requires the narrative to respond to events, and the characters to have some kind of objective., rather than just doing what they like.

I was pleased with a pickup-game I ran at a convention in the 1980s, for a bunch of level 1-2 OD&D and AD&D1e characters I'd never seen before. Their fight against a young green dragon ended in victory with only one PC still standing but no characters dead.

Yup. We like the intensity, but we aren't keen on the actual dying part.

It's getting to be like e-mail spamming, only intended to target the hard-of-thinking. Hum . . . I wonder if LaNasa believes that since judges and lawyers don't know much about the history of TTRPGs, his "alternative facts" will be just as plausible as the real history? If that is his plan, it's...

I'm willing to have quite complex character generation, and to trade that for fairly simple resolution mechanics in play. I seem to be unusually willing to do mental arithmetic in play: I mostly play GURPS, and I'm happy to do the arithmetic for highly-skilled hand-to-hand fighters (base skill...

There's a mis-phrasing here. All of those GURPS titles are new products, not re-releases of older ones. SJ Games will presumably do some PDF re-releases as well, but those titles aren't listed.

Privateers of the Caribbean. Retook ship; some Spanish survivors.

Found safes' keys on body.

AD&D1e GURPS 4e Honour & Intrigue Cthulhu Awakens

Never have, never seen anyone do it. Some parties who were law enforcement of various kinds would leave cards with contact details, but they were obliged to do so. There was a legendary PC in the eighties in the UK who did such things. His trademark style was distinctive. You would be in some...