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To return to the original topic, I ate in an Neapolitan restaurant on Saturday that prides itself on authenticity. They will provide a pineapple pizza, but it's £500 (about US$600) as opposed to about £15 for other pizzas.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp Richard Vogt betrays Martin Bormann.

We were having a fight in a badly constructed set of tunnels when they started to collapse. Suddenly we had to get the BBEG to chase us away from where he was blocking an exit. If we could do that, our advance scout could escape the collapse. If we didn't, the scout would be trapped and likely...

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Ninety megalomaniac steel spiders: unnatural!

One weekly game on Mondays. Two fortnightly games with overlapping membership, alternating on Wednesdays. A monthly Saturday group and a monthly Sunday group. All online.

That's why players of characters who tend to get solo scenes, such as stealthy infiltrators, really need to work at sharing the tension around. Stream-of-consciousness commentary works fairly well.

Honor & Intrigue: Privateers of the Complications Man-sized spiders in Orinoco jungle.

I'm calling it 1.2e now because one of the five characters has been rebuilt from being a 1e Ranger into a 2e Ranger. That comes out closer to what the player wanted. The character is a follower of Aldrya, the Gloranthan goddess of plants, fertility, elves and related species. D&D magic-user...

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon Campaign. Final Fay Lord body retrieved.

RuneQuest campaign concluded. Lunars defeated.

No, it shouldn't require lots of player intelligence. Having mechanics that allow it to be more fun for intelligent players is fine. The best example of this which I've played is GURPS Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic. Designing spells for this on the fly requires (a) thinking of concepts...

My experience of asynchronous play is that combat is very slow, and hence best avoided. It also works best with just one player and a GM, so that the turnaround avoids delays. My most successful asynchronous game was playing a character without any meaningful combat ability. He was a jester in...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp Very polite Nazi mad engineer.

I'd leave out one magic item that I'd invented, but I don't think I'd change much else. This was 45 years ago, running the first session in a setting I still use occasionally.

The Immortals boxed set for old-time Basic D&D has a creature called a "lith". All liths are planets, but not all planets are liths.

Toon is hard to play for more than an hour: the necessary maniac pace gets tiring. A set of modes that I've tinkered with go like this: The classic mode is one GM and several players, with the GM running many NPCs and the players each running one PC. One reasonably common variation has some or...

GURPS 4e occult WWII in India: Indus Valley Civilization ghosts talk!

I never went near it. I want my character information under my own control, not that of a large company's marketing department. My groups are pretty willing to try new systems, and also to give up on them if we aren't enjoying them. One system that didn't get played was Heroes of the Soviet...

My Wednesday evening group has been going over 25 years. It runs two campaigns on alternate weeks, with different GMs, and most of us GM some of the time. In recent years, we've mostly played GURPS 4e, but one of our campaigns is currently Honor & Intrigue. This choice was made by the GM for...

It has, however, a lot of "Coming Soon" and "20% off" and seems keen to take money in advance for things to be delivered later. That's something of a red flag from any game company, and from one that's been enthusiastic about blockchains and NFTs, is a huge flashing "caveat emptor" sign.