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Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Bigger ship has trapped us.

I usually prefer the game subject matter to be serious - characters doing risky things for unimportant reasons doesn't make any sense to me - but I have no problem with the characters making jokes to relieve their stress. Indeed, one of the ways that I can tell the players are getting into the...

Not fantasy. What I'm running is GURPS 4e, in two demi-historical settings. One is "Cold War Pulp," use of a pulp style for games set in the early Cold War period, as a deliberate defiance of current real-world political trends. The current scenario is based on the activities of Ronald Richter...

Nobody publishes the kind of scenario I want to run.

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Got past fae tomb's guardians.

Sense of duty, plus it's fun. I've played lots of excellent games under the GMing of my players, and I run games in (semi-historical) settings that I'm interested in. The research and planning is pretty interesting, I don't have to design lots of monsters or magic items, and there's a real joy...

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign, side session: Reading memories "destroyed" by enemy.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Reconsider plan, flee with "scientist."

I missed part of last week's session, due to illness. During it, some mind-reading of the "Terran Guard" was done, which revealed that they were working for the Berserkers ("Goodlife" is the Berserker term) and that their ship contained a bomb which would wreck the planet if it ever got into an...

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: I missed attempted planetary destruction.

All of the "pros" are aimed at getting people to give them money to set up the NFT system, and buy the NFTs on the basis they will get more valuable. They're assuming the "investors" don't understand TTRPG players. This is a grift against them, as well as the likes of us.

No. I generally use what I call a "mission framework." The characters work for some organisation, which gives them missions to do. It does not tell them how to do the missions, or supervise them closely, it just points them at problems to solve. This gives the players plenty of scope for...

There are few, and they are not compelling. Blockchains have a bad reputation, which has a lot of justification. My advice, as a professionally qualified IT person, is to have nothing to do with them. People promoting them - and I'm not accusing you here, you were asked for use cases - need to...

That sound more like an argument for ignoring the problem than a suggestion for how to address it. In any case, proof-of-work blockchains use far too much energy to be acceptable, and proof-of-stake blockchains all look as if they can be subverted if someone cheats by modifying the software...

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Hostages rescued with minimal violence.

Sadly, no. For a long time to come, there will be people who've newly discovered them, see "$$$!" and start hyping them. The leading edge of awareness has moved past them, but the trailing edge has not yet discovered them. So many, in fact, that it starts to seem like the main point.

"Evil Idiot Games" doesn't sound so good, but appears to be closer to the truth.

Voted no. Not interested in any Star Wars game at all.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Fusion only works near "inventor."

The occult WWII campaign has two strands at present. I run the China-Burma-India theatre, and Zyg runs the neutral countries. The characters in the latter work for MI6, under cover as a BOAC civilian flying boat crew. They were sent to Lisbon to convey the Duke of Kent back to the UK. He's been...