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I've never run school club games (I didn't discover roleplaying until I went to college) but for the other three categories, what I aim to manage is the level of tension the players are experiencing. Fights that look dangerous are the easiest way to raise tension, but they tend to soak up...

Steve Jackson Games Solstice Sale. 15% off PDFs and STLs until 2nd January.

Game Night Life mats. Nice product idea, failure of execution. A small number of mats were produced and shipped, but most of the options for colours and shapes never happened. Funded spring 2015, last update spring 2019.

The ones I'm actively running at present (Cold War Pulp, and the Occult WWII in India campaign) are intermediate. The characters are free to do what they like, within the in-game constraints of the organisations that employ them and send them on missions. Those constraints are pretty loose...

No trace of his comrades. We've made it about half-way back to the city and explained a lot of what has happened while he was petrified, in broad outline.

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Explaining 2,500 years of history.

RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. Most comprehensible Dragonewt encounter ever!

A seriously talented English female ATA pilot, Jackie Bishop. A slightly less talented Norwegian pilot and engineer with shamanic abilities, Svend Nordmann. A Scottish RAF reserve officer who's a navigation specialist and ritual magician, Iain Ferguson. An English/Norwegian engineer and...

I haven't played very much Dragonquest, but I got good use out of the College of Illusion. The ability to make yourself invisible while projecting an image a few feet away can be quite effective. The less-good use I heard about was whichever college - one of the nasty ones - gets Agony. The PC...

At the end of the last session, we had got the Duke & Duchess of Windsor aboard our Empire "C" flying boat and left Lisbon at about 7pm local time. Our assignment is to get them to the Bahamas, where the Duke has been appointed governor. An Empire boat does not have the range for a direct...

GURPS 4e occult WWII, neutral countries strand To Canaries, via illusionary Bavaria.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: PCs beat up Romanian "vampire."

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Cancelled, 'cos French rail strikes.

A line I came up with while playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker under GURPS 4e: "Do you want to quit while you've a head?"

I don't do that deliberately, but unconscious bias is a thing, so I'm happy if the players plan outside sessions, and do anything else that doesn't require GM decisions. Giving feedback on player's plans before they start to implement them is tricky. I'll happily remind them of things the...

Um . . . combat with lethal force needs to be taken seriously, even if you expect to win. Yup. I've also imprisoned a character for a decade, for murder. Claiming that he was allowed to kill people because he was an Assassin didn't go down well with the judge.

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Avoided piranha attacks, just about.

I don't worry about that in the slightest, because I take a pretty loose attitude to rules, and am always willing to discard them. I prefer not to have copies of the character sheets, because if I know the fine details of the characters' abilities, I'm concerned that I will target events in the...

I've spent a lot of my gaming time in groups where everyone is experienced and most are skilled GMs. In those, everyone tracks their own damage and related matters, everyone jointly tracks the combat turns, and rule lookups are done by whoever isn't busy at the moment. As a GM, I'll occasionally...

On a hill outside the borders of Fairie, we found a very lifelike stone statue, in warrior's gear of ancient style, with no plinth and significant wear on exposed parts like ears and nose. Historical information is quite interesting in Avalon, because it's subject to occasional cataclysms that...