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Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications. Caiman attacks and becomes rations.

AD&D 1e, Avalon campaign: Weird monsters near Fairie's borders.

I really liked 4e's presentation. It was really clear and legible, vastly superior to 3e. But the rules and ideas were for a game I didn't want to play. I'd bought the slipcased three-volume bundle unseen. I gave it away without ever trying to play it.

I'm not terribly demanding about presentation, provided it's readable. A few examples of failures on that front: D&D 3e used a graphic background for most pages of its PHB. I'm significantly red/green colourblind, and found the background made reading the rules pretty hard. That was the point...

I started playing in late 1979 in college. After a while. it became clear to me that TSR were fairly deficient in knowledge of many fields, and made many mistakes in their rules and worldbuilding. When I started reading Dragon, I saw the contortions they went through to avoid admitting mistakes...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp "Vampire" confesses, Soviet PC leaves.

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Monsters bursting out all over! Alternatively: Blade Barrier fells evil trees.

I GM fantasy in what seems to be an unusual way. I treat every sapient creature as a PC that I'm looking after because their player isn't participating. None of them are interested in getting pointlessly killed, so I don't have "mooks."

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Can't get further by boat!

You're using 4e TL8; he's using the 3e TL8. They are different, confusingly so.

Yup. The moving parts of the system are more visible than in many game systems, but they have fewer hidden interactions. There are a couple of articles about running GURPS without using most of the rules in issue #5 of The Path of Cunning, a fanzine I co-edit.

Convention AD&D, Avalon campaign: "Haunting" is faked by ghost.

Glorantha is very different, wonderfully strange, and has a lot of internal consistency: different people looking into its mysteries mostly come out with similar conclusions. It's a good example of a magical world where the effects of the magic have been considered thoroughly, as opposed to...

To me, a successful session involves accomplishing something. The characters have found out something significant, solved a mystery, progressed past obstacles, or otherwise feel they've done something worthwhile. They have changed the setting, a bit or a lot, and possibly changed themselves...

The basis for Tech Levels changed at 4th edition. In 3e, it was largely on the basis of how much energy you could harness. Now it's mostly about the smallest things you can make and use. If it is revised again, there may well be another basis. Predicted futures always tell you more about your...

There days, mostly playing on line, either the Roll20 /roll command, or the Javascript dice roller a friend wrote. For face-to-face play, either some of the custom dice I designed in 2015-16, or Dwarven Stones metal dice I don't have a picture of.

GURPS Mars Attacks is a horror-pulp-comedy setting based on the trading card series. It seems to be out of print.

I may have some responsibility for that. Robin Laws guest-starred in my politics game at a convention in summer 2001, playing George W Bush.

I found the Dying Earth RPG worked well for playing a parody of modern politics. Since the game is about inflating your own importance and misleading your fellows, this wasn't a surprise.

AD&D 1e, Avalon Campaign: Rescuee has job, lodging, citizenship.