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Unilateral reforestation by fanatic fae. (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)

Racing nazis for lost jewels.

Archduke’s ball, karate, spectacled cobra. (More GURPS Cliffhangers)

Gangster gunfight under Predjama Castle. [GURPS Cliffhangers]

Thanks for all of your comments. I recognize that it's an absurd question, really. As a bit of background context, I've been experimenting with creating ancestry data files for GURPS Character Sheet, a free utility that my players and I use to manage our characters. The developer has...

If you were creating a random PC generator and wanted to include non-binary as a third gender option, what statistical weight would you give it? One in three? (Even odds of being male, female, or non-binary?) Or some reduced amount? In the US there are about 1.2 million people who identify as...

Hulder brings back primeval forest.

I like this write-up. Gave me a lot to think about. This last bit made me think about how my play decisions in most RPGs are informed by information on multiple levels. I definitely think about my character and what they would do in any given situation. This may be informed to different degrees...

I definitely want to hear more about this one! Petrifying gaze? Something more subtle?

I’m not an expert on all of the available D&D books, but other RPGs have certainly managed it. In GURPS, for example, strength and hit points can be arbitrarily high. Other attributes rarely need to go much beyond the standard scale. It doesn’t resolve all questions for exotic builds, but it...

You beat me to it. This has been my experience too. Plus, it’s helpful to be able to compare capabilities to some extent.

When I think "PVP" I usually think of PCs duking it out, trying to kill each other. I've never seen that go well, though I'll admit that it's been a few decades since it has even come up in my adult games. I see it frequently with younger players (I run RPG activities for middle-schoolers), and...

This is a difficult question to answer if you don't use alignment in your games. I have disliked the alignment system since the mid-eighties and ditched it altogether in 1990. I haven't used it in any edition of D&D since. And, of course, it doesn't exist in most other role-playing games. In...

New mini-campaign using DFRPG: Cartography, a failed lullaby, donkeys.

GURPS in the Potterverse: Second-years foil villain beneath Hogwarts.

When I’ve heard this sort of thing, and I have many times, it is presented more subtly. One GM suggests to another that their world will feel more “realistic” if there’s more misogyny. Or they say something like, “But there weren’t any queer people ‘back then.’” Or they’ll call it “light”...

In this case, though, that work could be the adventure. Each of those steps could be an added layer on the adventure of finding and stealing the worms. Spying to learn how they are fed, raised, and harvested. Learning the steps of the process. Even more adventure material!

Many RPGs differ from other games in that they have an enormous quantity of rules. I never expect GMs or players to know them all. I’ve been gaming since 1980 and I wouldn’t claim to know all the rules of anything beyond ultra-lite systems like Lasers and Feelings.

A neat thing about Eri silkmoths is that they led to the production of Ahimsa silk that didn't require the death of the pupa. Throw this idea into a fantasy setting, and you could have some producers boiling the cocoons and killing the pupa and others waiting for it to hatch. The latter method...