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We can't drink that tonight...

He still lives there. He has a podcast! Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice.

On reflection, a further point. In Pendragon, it's natural for PC knights to feel that they are at the centre of important events, because that's true as a tenet of the setting. In RQ2/3, that wasn't usually true for starting characters, and it came in gradually as they developed. In RQ:AiG...

Rune Quest: Adventures in Glorantha: We're mythic, but insufficiently competent.

I heard Greg tell that tale himself, so it's at least mythically true. I just played my first session of the new RQ. I played a lot of RQ2-with-bits-of-RQ3 back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and read most of the Mongoose RQ material, and much of the Hero Wars material, but I hadn't played...

"Dungeon Hobby Shop Hobbies" "Sure, Justin, that sounds great!"

For us, that depends on what we're playing. If most of the fighting is with guns, then TotM is just fine. But if it's melee, especially in fantasy games, the maps and positioning are quite important, and there are quite a lot of Martial Arts rules in use. The most fun version of that is to see...

Sadly not, but here's the page for the campaign we played.

GURPS 4e will give you all the crunch you want, both in combat and character design. The Monster Hunters series of supplements give you character templates, magic, equipment and opponents for modern urban fantasy. It works especially well if set in Florida! That's the Florida portrayed in Carl...

Agreed. I was 13 when the TV series appeared, and have no nostalgia for it at all. It was nonsensical from the beginning, and never rose above that.

Another sub-genre that is not impossible, but is hard: time travel.

Briefing, too secret to post.

The characters are in Kabul, Afghanistan, in September 1940. They were sent there because a member of the Afghan royal family suddenly switched to supporting Germany, after having been anti-German. Since they readily found out he has a magical effect on him, and the Cultural Assistant from the...

GURPS Occult WWII, India campaign: The Confederation of Mountain Kingdoms?

Amber Diceless Roleplaying, actually.

Something I've never really understood: what's the motive for playing new games inspired by the style of the old ones? Why not just play the old ones?

Psychodrama about the interior life of a single character is quite hard as a TTRPG. I managed it by having three players share control of a single character. They ended up playing the id, the ego and the super-ego, more or less.

Doing that at scale is hard. You need lots of GMs, and they need organising, paying and supporting with material. Think about the availability of customers at different times of day, and the amount they'd be willing to pay, and full-time GMing starts to look like a low-paying gig economy job...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Defeated Nazi helicopter commando team.

What I'd really like is someone who can read books on history, culture and religion in multiple languages, starting with Japanese, Mandarin, and Sanskrit, and fish out the gameable details.