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AD&D1e, Avalon ca,paign: Player departed; big reveal; planning!

The thing that was outstanding when it appeared was its terseness, and the amount of plot that could thus be fitted into relatively short volumes. Compared with the vast tomes that Donaldson and Brooks were producing at the time, it was very refreshing. Many gamers had their tastes formed in...

Sailing, climbing mountains, no complications!

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Finished battle, new investigation now.

Blades in the Dark: Rescued girl from Red Sashes,

Fairly traditional, but I'm always willing to take suggestions from the players about how things might be. Filling in all the gaps myself is impossible, and plausible ideas will get used.

Trying to, quite literally, play a Hero system character, using Hero system mechanics, in a D&D game. Or if prevented from doing that, making up a weird ancestry/background that makes his character special in strange ways. The setting is part of a meta-campaign that allows for a lot of...

Something even cooler is when a group of disparate characters, generated separately, evolve into a team and become far more than the sum of their parts. It isn't common, and takes quite a lot of play, but it's great when it happens. I fondly remember Hoyyou the Barbarian. INT 3, WIS 17. He...

I have several modes of adventure-running, depending on the ambition level and style of the campaign. The last time I ran anything resembling traditional fantasy, the characters were in a police force in a large city. This was inevitably informed by the Night Watch sub-series of Pratchett's...

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Soul's information content vs spirit's?

GURPS Cold War Pulp: Met Dero's queen; trade starting.

It does, and the term also gets misused for games in a generally similar style, but different mechanics. This confused me at first with BitD, although not nearly as much as the Roll20 character sheet.

I mostly run GURPS, simply because the kinds of semi-historical games that I like to run fit it well, and my players are used to it. I don't feel any pressure to conform to fashions in the hobby. The only other rule system I've run recently is AD&D1e, for the setting I've been running since...

How does this spell work?

Err, no. Games Workshop was founded in 1975, and TSR UK in 1980. While Warlock of Firetop Mountain certainly brought many people into the hobby, I'd demur from the idea it was "central" for very long.

Occasionally. Back in the first summer vacation after I learned to play, I played a few days of AD&D1e generated from the tables in the back of the DMG. But recruiting some people and teaching them was more fun. This weekend, I'm playtesting a kickstarted solo quest. But in between, nothing...

We don't make a fuss about the players' need to improvise their characters' reactions and dialog, because that's fairly easy, given that they have only one character to run, and plenty of time to think. I'm a fairly improvisational GM, having learned what I can do easily, and what I need to...

I don't have an LGS any more. I had one for a fair while. They didn't carry any of the stuff I wanted to buy. Well, most of it was pretty niche, so I tried to get them to order it for me: they'd get paid for that before they had to settle their bill with the distributor, so they'd be ahead. They...

And not improving with time.

Army's recruitment problem solved, politely.