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AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Moved into tower, planned downtime.

I voted 1 - tiny to no impact. Hasbro/WotC are the copyright holder on the stuff I play (OD&D, AD&D1e) , and I will occasionally buy a PDF from them, but I have very little interest in their current products. They've been getting more and more prescriptive about the way their games should be...

My players will generally read a short primer. We're all in our fifties or older. I do get irritated with players who won't make any effort to be able to role-play real things that their characters would know. An example is a player who will dig deeply into Egyptology or the KGB, but in a...

When I played an Igor in a Discworld game, he regarded himself as a superior being, who adopted the hunchback and the lithp to seem less threatening to ordinary people. The optional nature of the lithp in the stories supports this reading, as does the trope-inversion.

Poe's Law applies; one can't tell his serious stuff from self-parody.

AD&D 1e, Avalon campaign: Shopping, research, holidays, prospecting, encounter!

Rune Quest: Adventures in Glorantha: Victory, honourable to enemy clan.

I played one session of AD&D1e with a group I knew from SF fandom. After the first fight, they were surprised that I hadn't kept track of the damage I'd done to each opponent. After some confusion, they explained: they'd found the table of monsters in the back of the DMG, which expressed their...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp Meeting various clerics in Cairo.

Our goldmine is running out.

When I started playing in fall 1979, one of the groups I played with was still using an evolved version of OD&D. A couple of people in it had started in 1974, when TTRPGs were very new, especially in the UK, and had perpetuated some strange interpretations. Copy-pasted from Men & Magic: Hold...

You didn't have to tell everyone! It's more fun if they each figure it out for themselves.

This thread has given me an idea for a modern-day TTRPG, about business, politics and related fields. It's mostly about non-violent activities, so I haven't bothered with physical attributes yet. It lets characters move between different fields of work fairly easily, because it mostly models...

Honour & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications. Captain's deal doesn't look great.

Monster Hunters witches are quite capable. They aren't all that great at combat, unless they've had a couple of days of preparation time with some idea of what they'll be fighting, but their abilities at finding things out are excellent.

If you have conventional agriculture replaced by hydroponics, vat-grown algae, or some other method that relies on industry, then a breakdown becomes more plausible. The landscape has all been made into parks or solar energy collectors, giving you places for herds to roam. The problem becomes...

We never hit the need for that one, because we had a techie to whom surveillance systems were friends. Getting data off them, and making sure we didn't show up on them was one of our main investigative tools.

Assuming you mean the full sense of pastoralism, with no crop-growing, just herding animals, the difficulty is that you have very few people, and they have to stay on the move or their herds run out of food and die. It's much easier to develop craft industries if people can stay in one place and...

Fail-Weapons GURPS Monster Hunters, using the Ritual Path Magic system This is named after a spell in Mary Gentle's fantasy parody novel, Grunts! It was invented on-the-fly in the first scenario of our Florida! campaign, which was Monster Hunters in the Florida of Tim Dorsey's and Carl...

AD&D 1e Avalon campaign: Aldryami vs lurching undead trees.