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I GM fantasy in what seems to be an unusual way. I treat every sapient creature as a PC that I'm looking after because their player isn't participating. None of them are interested in getting pointlessly killed, so I don't have "mooks."

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Can't get further by boat!

You're using 4e TL8; he's using the 3e TL8. They are different, confusingly so.

Yup. The moving parts of the system are more visible than in many game systems, but they have fewer hidden interactions. There are a couple of articles about running GURPS without using most of the rules in issue #5 of The Path of Cunning, a fanzine I co-edit.

Convention AD&D, Avalon campaign: "Haunting" is faked by ghost.

Glorantha is very different, wonderfully strange, and has a lot of internal consistency: different people looking into its mysteries mostly come out with similar conclusions. It's a good example of a magical world where the effects of the magic have been considered thoroughly, as opposed to...

To me, a successful session involves accomplishing something. The characters have found out something significant, solved a mystery, progressed past obstacles, or otherwise feel they've done something worthwhile. They have changed the setting, a bit or a lot, and possibly changed themselves...

The basis for Tech Levels changed at 4th edition. In 3e, it was largely on the basis of how much energy you could harness. Now it's mostly about the smallest things you can make and use. If it is revised again, there may well be another basis. Predicted futures always tell you more about your...

There days, mostly playing on line, either the Roll20 /roll command, or the Javascript dice roller a friend wrote. For face-to-face play, either some of the custom dice I designed in 2015-16, or Dwarven Stones metal dice I don't have a picture of.

GURPS Mars Attacks is a horror-pulp-comedy setting based on the trading card series. It seems to be out of print.

I may have some responsibility for that. Robin Laws guest-starred in my politics game at a convention in summer 2001, playing George W Bush.

I found the Dying Earth RPG worked well for playing a parody of modern politics. Since the game is about inflating your own importance and misleading your fellows, this wasn't a surprise.

AD&D 1e, Avalon Campaign: Rescuee has job, lodging, citizenship.

I've never run school club games (I didn't discover roleplaying until I went to college) but for the other three categories, what I aim to manage is the level of tension the players are experiencing. Fights that look dangerous are the easiest way to raise tension, but they tend to soak up...

Steve Jackson Games Solstice Sale. 15% off PDFs and STLs until 2nd January.

Game Night Life mats. Nice product idea, failure of execution. A small number of mats were produced and shipped, but most of the options for colours and shapes never happened. Funded spring 2015, last update spring 2019.

The ones I'm actively running at present (Cold War Pulp, and the Occult WWII in India campaign) are intermediate. The characters are free to do what they like, within the in-game constraints of the organisations that employ them and send them on missions. Those constraints are pretty loose...

No trace of his comrades. We've made it about half-way back to the city and explained a lot of what has happened while he was petrified, in broad outline.

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Explaining 2,500 years of history.

RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. Most comprehensible Dragonewt encounter ever!