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DMs can make challenges AND be a neutral arbiter?

Has anyone quoted Raymond Chandler in ten posts? If not: There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. & A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. & Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it...

So out of 1000, ONE GM does this? What a claim!

Instead of being the 10th person to tell you to try another system, although you should, I want to answer the original question. I usually run about 60% of the time for our gaming group, which is the number I’m happy with. When I’m on the player side, I facilitate everyone else doing cool...

The following are Pulp games or full expansions: TERRA INCOGNITA PULSE-POUNDING PULP DUST Adventures (Post WW2/alt history) Peter's Schweighofers Anykey PULP EGYPT & RURA TONGA Indiana Jones d6 & WEG Pulp C'thulu Dime Adventures Justice Inc Broken Compass octaNe - Against the Reich! Hollow Earth...

Beverage's rule of headlines.

The Beautiful Blue Danube / Seven Deadly by Simon Lucas “Is Koval your first or your last name?" Ava asked the royal bodyguard. “Is name.” “And when were you born?" Devi asked. “1887.” Ava spun her rifle idly. “That’s a boring tombstone. Koval, 1887 to 1935.” Normally, these stories tell the...

Well, kind of. The game takes place at the beautiful Tenderhook Hotel, one of the swankiest hotels in the City. The players have been hired by Larry Shoemaker, the touring manager of the Buzzards to watch over their bad boy guitarist, “Crazy” Joe Ladd. BUT!

THE ELLIS AFFAIR by Lisa J. Steele. Great set pieces, easy to improvise in fate or expand/skip parts. Nine Lives in the Fast Lane by David Kizzia. Fun, funny, game-able central premise for a comedy adventure.

Travel to Flatlantis / “Prairie Dogs Ripped My Flesh!” By Jesse Pingenot “Gee whiz,” said the hayseed. “I ain’t never fired from a turret before. But I bet I’m a quick learner.” New player, new GM, and a fun new character this week. The newest member of our group plays "Cousin Clara,” a...

Yes in sci fi, no in fantasy.

Defeated tanks, lost to janitor.

Operation: T*R*U*S*T Fall “Your mother already signed. And who do you trust more: your friends, or your mother, me, and the United States of America?” This week, the players defeated an armored division and lost a fight to a janitor. April 1935 really is a land of contrasts. The first land was...

14, with one murdered yesterday. Mysterious!

Dreamgirl/ Callback by Kath Ginther. So good. Makes me happy whenever I see them.

Cold Vengeance and Haute Cuisine “Three stars?” asked Thaza. “Sounds like a good play or a bad telescope.” Times Square was packed, thousands of revelers ready to ring in the new year. Through the crowd pushed four determined faces: three Asian women and Rafe Lancaster. Thaza O'Rourke, cat...