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An addition that might have some objective truth to it: Most Wiccans consider themselves less geeky than those who do Wiccan rituals in Klingon. Yes, this really happened.

Avalon has a rather fractured planar structure: all of the current populations have arrived through assorted portals from other worlds. The oldest known events are about 4,000 years ago, when giants, dragons and the fay were already present. About 3,500 years ago, a group of fay lords were...

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Found tomb predating current population.

Stabcon convention game, mixed kinds of D&D: Scenario faked by evil temple.

Neither of the campaigns I'm running have a BBEG in the conventional sense. Nor do they need them.

Things like this are why I prefer to avoid BBEGs as plot drivers.

Stabcon convention game, mixed kinds of D&D: Negotiations saved from Loki's children.

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Bigger ship has trapped us.

I usually prefer the game subject matter to be serious - characters doing risky things for unimportant reasons doesn't make any sense to me - but I have no problem with the characters making jokes to relieve their stress. Indeed, one of the ways that I can tell the players are getting into the...

Not fantasy. What I'm running is GURPS 4e, in two demi-historical settings. One is "Cold War Pulp," use of a pulp style for games set in the early Cold War period, as a deliberate defiance of current real-world political trends. The current scenario is based on the activities of Ronald Richter...

Nobody publishes the kind of scenario I want to run.

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Got past fae tomb's guardians.

Sense of duty, plus it's fun. I've played lots of excellent games under the GMing of my players, and I run games in (semi-historical) settings that I'm interested in. The research and planning is pretty interesting, I don't have to design lots of monsters or magic items, and there's a real joy...

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign, side session: Reading memories "destroyed" by enemy.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Reconsider plan, flee with "scientist."

I missed part of last week's session, due to illness. During it, some mind-reading of the "Terran Guard" was done, which revealed that they were working for the Berserkers ("Goodlife" is the Berserker term) and that their ship contained a bomb which would wreck the planet if it ever got into an...

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: I missed attempted planetary destruction.

All of the "pros" are aimed at getting people to give them money to set up the NFT system, and buy the NFTs on the basis they will get more valuable. They're assuming the "investors" don't understand TTRPG players. This is a grift against them, as well as the likes of us.

No. I generally use what I call a "mission framework." The characters work for some organisation, which gives them missions to do. It does not tell them how to do the missions, or supervise them closely, it just points them at problems to solve. This gives the players plenty of scope for...

There are few, and they are not compelling. Blockchains have a bad reputation, which has a lot of justification. My advice, as a professionally qualified IT person, is to have nothing to do with them. People promoting them - and I'm not accusing you here, you were asked for use cases - need to...