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Hmmm... The Traveller Adventure has several set-piece adventures/encounters which directly advance the main storyline. Then, there are a bunch of optional encounters of various kinds, which the GM is meant to sprinkle into regular play. It's not nearly as scripted as, say, the Dragonlance...

I remember the original Dragonlance books being published, and some of my gamer friends were really excited to play the modules they published shortly thereafter. But later, they expressed disappointment; I was given to understand that you could really only follow the published story in the...

I had the players try repeatedly to evade and defeat these rioters, who were surprisingly tough. Finally, I had to break character to just tell the PCs, "Look, we have twenty minutes left in this timeslot, and the module author has explicitly instructed me to do this. Please, let's just get to...

Look, they aren't paying for good environmental practices, they want to know that their profits are as high as they possibly can be. So long as I cover that base, they don't care how I handle the rest of the matter. So, you'll just have to depend on my, uh, checks dictionary "innate goodness"...

Railroading is admittedly hard to define, but I know it when I see it. I well remember when I ran modules for the Living Arcanis campaign during the 3.5E days. One module I ran was a high-level module. While the players are visiting someone, a riot breaks out in the streets. The players are...

Look, I got an Environmental Engineering degree. There's an art and science to dumping toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water. Can it be done? Sure. But if you hire me and pay my sky-high salary, I can set it up that it's easy and the municipality will even thank you for the needed influx...

On the one hand, I get the reason for integration. It's what we see in the Real World, so why wouldn't it be that way in the fiction? On the other hand, the reasons why we integrate in the Real World are sometimes fairly bad. If the orcs are integrated because they were enslaved in bulk before...

That one is the oddball. It's really a hexcrawl followed by a pointcrawl, and you have a time element which you don't know about until halfway through the book. Joe Dever and Gary Chalk contributed a few bits to White Dwarf magazine; they did a lot of kitbashing of miniatures. But the setting...

Don't listen to him! We love narcoleptics around here! In fact, we

... But threads on other message boards are fair game. Got it! ;) Just kidding! Life is too short to spend a lot of it complaining!

I'm probably going to have to do a playthrough of Night of the Nazgûl. I searched, and apparently I'm the first guy on ENWorld to mention it. That's... that's just a damn shame! It's IMO a great gamebook, from one of my top four series!

I mean, "Warlock" started it off by being extremely successful. Give it a shot; if it doesn't suit you, know that there is probably one (or more) that ticks all of the boxes for you. In college, I only got to game when I was on-campus. Over the summers, I played and replayed gamebooks a lot...

Those are pretty good. They're all different, with little crossover unless you squint and decide, behind the scenes, that you're playing the same guy. The best four series: TolkienQuest: The first three gamebooks produced by ICE under the license with the Saul Zaentz Company were written by...

The old TolkienQuest books by Iron Crown were amazing. I told my wife to play the first one, Night of the Nazgûl, and she had to play it twice right off the bat, it was so good. Highly recommend that series (well, the three that got printed), along with Steve Jackson's Sorcery! and Lone Wolf; I...

Wow. So, back in the 4th edition days, I ran the D&D Encounters program at my FLGS. Wizards would send physical copies of a module to a hobby shop for free, including poster maps and, sometimes, supplementary material like NPC or item cards or something. The shop would get DMs to run a part of...

It's really hampering the sale of Juul ecigarettes in Grade School!

I like to puree the pizza, refrigerate the slurry, and then reheat in the microwave for 3 minutes and consume. I mean, I guess people do it differently -- like, microwave for 2 and a half minutes, maybe? -- but I expect everyone eats it the same way I do, and both cannot comprehend and will...

Thanks for the reminder. I have to go get a refill of red-flavored Maxiblast Sugar Bombs.