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Since there where some replies to this post, I need to answer. "We are no thieves, we are heroes fighting for a good cause". If you ever took that +1 Longsword from the evil cults stash (the evil cult that you murdered), that's de facto theft. It's not like you asked them to give it to you, or...

It’s been decades since I was a player, but if the love interest - for a fair comparisons sake - is an Illithid, I would do it with gusto.

I’m not shure all of their victims would agree.

This is anecdotal and is probably a fluke, but my players haven't been interested in playing rogue-like characters in any system for like 5-6 years - it's like the sneaky, backstabby chars have gone out of style. Even if I try to create situations in my campaigns where a streetwise stealthy dude...

So, in a game that to a large degree is about player characters being serial thieves and robbers, going on regular grissly murder sprees sometimes bordering on genocide, I need to get consent from every player for including a possibility of physically transformative effects in case they are...

I don't want to prolong the pulp discussion, but I find it interesting that someone is nerdy enough to find this forum and create an account, while don't knowing the pop cultural meaning/genre/style of pulp, as it's used in gamer culture. This is not meant as something negative, but that it...

Maybe it's because I'm an old guy, but the old roots you refer to is pretty transparent to me, even if it is a traditionalist game. I don't really see the equipment porn either, compared to games of comparable crunch. If you play cyberpunk, you add stuff and stuff complexity, if you do a...

Finally got all of EE Doc Smiths Lensman series on my e-book reader, so I’m gonna enjoy that when I finish my Felix & Gotrek spree. My Lensman paper books are sadly a mess of loose pages.

My players leaned into power trappings from the start, so I Pavloved that - at least once per session they can earn a bennie by giving an evocate description when using a power wrapped in their specific trappings. They need to be inventive and can’t repeat themselves if they want the reward. I...

I'm generally very generous with my bennies, and even more so in our current Savage Pathfinder campaign, mostly because my players tend to spend them very frivolously - which make for a fun game where players aren't afraid to take risks. Even though our games are mostly focused on roleplaying...

Savage Worlds is my main system. Currently I'm running a fantasy city campaign using Savage Pathfinder, it's been going on for little less than a year. The system fits my style of GMing and home brewed semi sandboxy campaigns perfectly. It's very light on the mechanical prep and is easy to...

I started with Traveller and Runequest, and only later added AD&D to the repertoire. When we ran D&D style dungeon crawls, we used the Runequest system, since D&D combat was obviously inferior ;-) It took a while to start using AD&D rules, and then we always started at higher level. It was much...

Impatiently tapping fingers on table, waiting for official CoC modules for FoundryVTT

Re-reading the first two Felix & Gotrek omnibuses, since against better knowledge I'll start up a second weekly campaign, GMing WFRP4e on Foundry. But as we all know, one can never have too much Grey Seer Thranquol.

As a perma-GM only playing online via Foundry, I love it, since the vast majority of the crunch is player facing and the Foundry implementation is incredibly good. It's probably one of the most lazy systems to GM that I've tried. It's one of the last systems I would like to be a player in though.

As to social skills etc: In my campaigns no matter what system there is usually a heavy focus on roleplaying and the social pillar. And my players must always talk, argue and be clever if they want to fool a guard or squeeze info from a tightlipped bureaucrat. Investing in social skills gives a...

Yes, I would love it too!

Random chargen is a big no for me, for the above reasons. I always have a chat with my players about overarching campaign theme and rough party composition from fun and power level perspectives. They are then free to choose from a limited list, and I throw them a small amount of bonus starting...

Ime it depends very much on how light your/your GM’s touch is. And it’s kind of built into the game expectations that even if you live, sooner or later there will be amputation, corruption and mutations. And the system is not only crunchy but also wonky in many ways, like if C7 added artificial...

Pandora's Star and Neutronium Alchemist series are amazing, and Great North Road is one of my Hamilton favorites. His earlier Greg Mandel books is also very good reading. Fallen Star on the other hand is one of the few very mediocre PFH books. I simply found it boring and unengaging.