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Tun Kai Poh, I look forward to reading your posts and recommendations. Thanks for sharing!

I want demons and slimes!!! (Or, demonic slimes... bring it on Juiblex!)

I wasn't sure what "real-time combat" meant in this context. My first thought was SCA or something where you literally have the fight. Now I'm thinking it might mean second-by-second combat along the lines of the full tactical combat system in GURPS. If so, I should adjust my poll response.

That certainly happened often enough for us, but I also recall erasing through the little boxes on my character sheet where I tracked arrows and rations. In general, I found that these things were only fun if the character sheets supported it and the GM had a clear, consistent system with...

Yes! I am thrilled that we'll finally get our very own GURPS Monster Manual. It's not that I've had tons of trouble converting monsters from other systems, but I rarely take the time to do a proper job of it. They're always better when they've been done thoughtfully. And playtested. And the...

Yes! I'm very excited about Gubat Banwa, but one of the PDFs is 500+ pages. That's a lot more reading than I usually do on a screen and too much to print. I'm hoping for a book at some point.

I agree that it is group- and genre-dependent. With that said, for my fantasy games, I have mixed preferences. I tend to like the fundamentals of the world to feel realistic. Economies make some sort of sense. Political conflicts are believable. People behave generally as I would expect people...

Yeah, it was pretty heavy-handed. (But Chick was never known for his light touch.) It did lead to some good conversations with the kids about religion in general and Christian theology in particular. But I will definitely aim to avoid that house in the future.

Yeah, I've seen that issue with hexes. In our normal usage, it doesn't matter much because any spatial warping is applying to everyone equally (PCs and their foes). I could see it having an impact if it were a set of interconnecting hallways and chambers with people racing around in various...

I just came across my first one ever at Halloween. Someone handed it to my kids while trick-or-treating instead of candy.

After playing GURPS for a while, I came to prefer hexes, even for buildings and dungeons. But I also prefer creating my maps without a grid and applying a grid later—the layouts feel more natural. In the past four years of playing DFRPG, we haven't encountered any serious complications, whether...

Groin shot ends the dragon.

I’m curious about this one. Did the GM fail to show up? Or, did they vanish mid-game? Like falling asleep during a virtual session?

Although I haven't played many of the games mentioned in this thread, I like the sound of how they implement these character-focused scenes. I've played at tables where we introduced play traditions around starting or ending sessions with flashbacks or other characterization. The only mechanical...

Whew. Yeah. There's always another angle, isn't there? Still, if I were actually playing with kids, I could see starting off with very clear lines of morality. The "good authorities" would never overstep their bounds. But I would absolutely problematize that as they continued exploring the...