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I'm calling it 1.2e now because one of the five characters has been rebuilt from being a 1e Ranger into a 2e Ranger. That comes out closer to what the player wanted. The character is a follower of Aldrya, the Gloranthan goddess of plants, fertility, elves and related species. D&D magic-user...

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon Campaign. Final Fay Lord body retrieved.

RuneQuest campaign concluded. Lunars defeated.

No, it shouldn't require lots of player intelligence. Having mechanics that allow it to be more fun for intelligent players is fine. The best example of this which I've played is GURPS Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic. Designing spells for this on the fly requires (a) thinking of concepts...

My experience of asynchronous play is that combat is very slow, and hence best avoided. It also works best with just one player and a GM, so that the turnaround avoids delays. My most successful asynchronous game was playing a character without any meaningful combat ability. He was a jester in...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp Very polite Nazi mad engineer.

I'd leave out one magic item that I'd invented, but I don't think I'd change much else. This was 45 years ago, running the first session in a setting I still use occasionally.

The Immortals boxed set for old-time Basic D&D has a creature called a "lith". All liths are planets, but not all planets are liths.

Toon is hard to play for more than an hour: the necessary maniac pace gets tiring. A set of modes that I've tinkered with go like this: The classic mode is one GM and several players, with the GM running many NPCs and the players each running one PC. One reasonably common variation has some or...

GURPS 4e occult WWII in India: Indus Valley Civilization ghosts talk!

I never went near it. I want my character information under my own control, not that of a large company's marketing department. My groups are pretty willing to try new systems, and also to give up on them if we aren't enjoying them. One system that didn't get played was Heroes of the Soviet...

My Wednesday evening group has been going over 25 years. It runs two campaigns on alternate weeks, with different GMs, and most of us GM some of the time. In recent years, we've mostly played GURPS 4e, but one of our campaigns is currently Honor & Intrigue. This choice was made by the GM for...

It has, however, a lot of "Coming Soon" and "20% off" and seems keen to take money in advance for things to be delivered later. That's something of a red flag from any game company, and from one that's been enthusiastic about blockchains and NFTs, is a huge flashing "caveat emptor" sign.

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications. Caiman attacks and becomes rations.

AD&D 1e, Avalon campaign: Weird monsters near Fairie's borders.

I really liked 4e's presentation. It was really clear and legible, vastly superior to 3e. But the rules and ideas were for a game I didn't want to play. I'd bought the slipcased three-volume bundle unseen. I gave it away without ever trying to play it.

I'm not terribly demanding about presentation, provided it's readable. A few examples of failures on that front: D&D 3e used a graphic background for most pages of its PHB. I'm significantly red/green colourblind, and found the background made reading the rules pretty hard. That was the point...

I started playing in late 1979 in college. After a while. it became clear to me that TSR were fairly deficient in knowledge of many fields, and made many mistakes in their rules and worldbuilding. When I started reading Dragon, I saw the contortions they went through to avoid admitting mistakes...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp "Vampire" confesses, Soviet PC leaves.

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Monsters bursting out all over! Alternatively: Blade Barrier fells evil trees.