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I played one session of AD&D1e with a group I knew from SF fandom. After the first fight, they were surprised that I hadn't kept track of the damage I'd done to each opponent. After some confusion, they explained: they'd found the table of monsters in the back of the DMG, which expressed their...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp Meeting various clerics in Cairo.

Our goldmine is running out.

When I started playing in fall 1979, one of the groups I played with was still using an evolved version of OD&D. A couple of people in it had started in 1974, when TTRPGs were very new, especially in the UK, and had perpetuated some strange interpretations. Copy-pasted from Men & Magic: Hold...

You didn't have to tell everyone! It's more fun if they each figure it out for themselves.

This thread has given me an idea for a modern-day TTRPG, about business, politics and related fields. It's mostly about non-violent activities, so I haven't bothered with physical attributes yet. It lets characters move between different fields of work fairly easily, because it mostly models...

Honour & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications. Captain's deal doesn't look great.

Monster Hunters witches are quite capable. They aren't all that great at combat, unless they've had a couple of days of preparation time with some idea of what they'll be fighting, but their abilities at finding things out are excellent.

If you have conventional agriculture replaced by hydroponics, vat-grown algae, or some other method that relies on industry, then a breakdown becomes more plausible. The landscape has all been made into parks or solar energy collectors, giving you places for herds to roam. The problem becomes...

We never hit the need for that one, because we had a techie to whom surveillance systems were friends. Getting data off them, and making sure we didn't show up on them was one of our main investigative tools.

Assuming you mean the full sense of pastoralism, with no crop-growing, just herding animals, the difficulty is that you have very few people, and they have to stay on the move or their herds run out of food and die. It's much easier to develop craft industries if people can stay in one place and...

Fail-Weapons GURPS Monster Hunters, using the Ritual Path Magic system This is named after a spell in Mary Gentle's fantasy parody novel, Grunts! It was invented on-the-fly in the first scenario of our Florida! campaign, which was Monster Hunters in the Florida of Tim Dorsey's and Carl...

AD&D 1e Avalon campaign: Aldryami vs lurching undead trees.

The PCs work for MI6, under cover as the crew of a Short Empire BOAC flying boat. We were sent to Lisbon in Portugal to bring the Duke of Kent home from a trade visit, then our orders were changed, and two RAF Sunderland flying boats arrived to take DoK back to the UK. Our new mission is to...

GURPS 4e occult WWII campaign: Duke of Windsor is annoying.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Islamic Atenism in 1950 Egypt?

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Probing weird zone of evilness.

One thing in Rote-based magic that I doubt anyone likes is "pre-selected spells." That was the idea, which I first encountered in AD&D1e (PHB, p. 40), that spell casters had to memorize specific spells to have them available to cast in play, and if you wanted to be able to cast the same spell...

It depends if you count En Guarde as an actual RPG, rather than a precursor to the form. If it's an RPG - and I'm genuinely unsure - it was my first non-D&D family RPG. If not, I'm not sure, but it might well have been the first edition of DragonQuest. Incidentally, anyone who'd played the game...