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The problem comes with games that build "balancing" for combat encounters into the rules, which more or less started with D&D 3e. It makes running games much easier and safer for new GMs, but has this downside. It may have others, but I've rarely played and never run such games, so I don't know.

Cursed ruined city: no trees.

Blades in the Dark: Gave up; will play RQ.

Essentially, the states of stress and their effects lack subtlety and nuance. There are almost-audible clicks as the system changes state to "desperate" and the like. Also, the Roll20 character and group sheets are too complex and quite confusing. The GM believed it wasn't necessary to...

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I'm playing in AD&D1e and GURPS 4e campaigns, both of which I'm very satisfied with, and running two GURPS 4e campaigns, likewise. In all cases, the ruleset being used fits well with the setting and the style of play. My answer in the poll was "Very satisfied" for GURPS 4e, because that's the...

I treasure the look I saw on a player's face as he recognised the sequence of saving throws he was rolling, and realised his character was hovering above a beholder they couldn't see.

Privateers of the Complications: To Orinoco's delta, via hurricane.

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Heroes Feast for village children.

I have run many Call of Cthulhu scenarios under GURPS without difficulty. The games' similar attribute and hit point ranges make this quite easy, even when I'd adapting on-the-fly during a session. I have played the first four parts of the PF1e version of the Kingmaker adventure path under...

GURPS Cold War Pulp: Superintelligent polar bear(s), confused scientist.

So the original owners sold it for something like what it was worth. Then the new owners managed to sell it for far more, and the next set of owners did the same. Looks like the value of the business has been wildly inflated by people who think "private equity" means "we can print money" and the...

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign. Killing basilisks helpful with locals.

May 1940. Last session, we were present for the British invasion of Iceland, which was very polite. We were able to foil some German schemes, and stop some of their agents from impeding the invasion. But one of the agents got away. We split the party, as three of us flew captured codebooks back...

GURPS occult WWII campaign: Enemy agent caught mid-Atlantic.

In which case, the wording of the survey and its alpha-testing have been done carelessly, without questioning the author's assumptions. I'm partially sighted. I was doing the survey on a landscape-format laptop screen, with the font sizes turned up far enough that I have about six question rows...

It reads more like a sales tool for business start-up services. Given that, and the way the positive end negative ends of the scale confusingly flip around, I felt my answers would be of no value and abandoned the survey.

It seems remarkably obsessed with the idea of starting a business.

GURPS Cold War Pulp: Super-intelligent seals; next, polar bears!

The departing player is for an interesting reason. The Monday Avalon group has been running for four years, and the party are about 12th level. The DM is running another weekly session, in Avalon, and the departing player has been in that too. He feels it will be easier if he isn't having to...