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Politics: the Sikh prince in the party has been signing declarations of friendship and co-operation with other governments in the region around northern India. These include Indian princely states and Afghanistan. Today he got called in by his cousin, the Maharaja of Patiala State to ask about...

GURPS 4e Weird War II, China-Burma-India theatre: Politics, recruiting, travelling, insurance, cliff-hanger.

Our Honor & Intrigue GM is a gifted player, and tends to forget that the rest of us aren't quite as lucky as him, and don't have insight into the forthcoming challenges . Yesterday, the quest for El Dorado appeared truly hopeless, and the players were seriously considering abandoning it. They'd...

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Abandon quest? GM turns friendlier.

Along the same lines, but less costly: Operation White Box.

I'm afraid I view RPGs are a distinct story form, and regard styling them after another form as a category error.

The sixth issue of The Path of Cunning, the world’s funniest GURPS fanzine, is now freely available from The Path of Cunning. Written by Shimmin Beg, Scott Maykrantz, Matt Wehmeier, Roger Bell_West and John Dallman. Artwork by Dan Smith and Los Alamos National Laboratories, plus Wikimedia...

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?"