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AD&D 1.2e, Avalon campaign: War approaches, possible biological attack.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Hans Kammler repents and surrenders.

If that's the same as in The Mote in God's Eye, it is similar, but the GM did not want to place jump points for convenience of plotting. He was using the Hipparcos dataset for star positions, and could generate jump point positions from that.

Yup. The most satisfactory interstellar game I've played had a custom FTL system, described here. The index to all the campaign's pages is here. Be warned that a guiding principle was "This is not Star Trek." If something seemed like Star Trek, it was changed. As I have said many times...

Artemis endorses treaties. In person.

It's different, certainly. I found it fairly easy to adapt to it, coming from a background in OD&D and AD&D1e where there are no attacks of opportunity, bonus actions and other things that can be fitted into a multi-second combat round. You need to pay attention continuously during fights, and...

February 1941. The characters were in Chongquing, the temporary capital of Nationalist China. They were there escorting a delegation from the Indian National Congress, who were being shown just how vicious the Japanese war against China was. There was a faction of the INC that believed the...

GURPS 4e occult WWII campaign, CBI theatre: Japanese wreck own political objectives.

The space navy game I've run was the Royal Navy of 2100 in GURPS Transhuman Space. Ships range in size from large spacesuits up to 10,000 or so tons, there is no interstellar travel but there is widespread biotechnology and strong AI. There are no "space fighters" although there are lots of...

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Killed Pteranodon. Met friendly natives.

AD&D1.2e, Avalon campaign: International negotiations going very well.

I've been exposed to several people's attempts to create their own RPG. They tend to have have a common problem: the rules-writer is also the designer. They are very used to the ideas of the game, and tend to regard "what the game is about" as totally obvious, and don't explain it. This can be...

The original Arduin Grimoire volumes aren't a game in their own right. They don't say what they are, but they're a load of add-ons for early versions of D&D.

We are making our way hop by hop, from Earth to the Pleiades. We came to a system that is a little strange. There's a fairly sun-like star in the middle, and a pair of low-mass red dwarfs as a fairly close binary orbiting it. There are a bunch of asteroids at the barycentre of the pair of...

Mongoose Traveller 2300, Bayern campaign: Astrophysics by Mongoose undermine story.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp Most Antarctic Space Nazis surrender.

We used to say we played RuneQuest e - 2.71828. It was a group with a lot of mathematicians.

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon Campaign: Athena, Poseidon helpful, Dionysius not.

RPG books tend to need tables. And tables are tough for Kindle, ePub, and similar formats that reflow text freely. PDF has fixed pages, which means they can use the same layout as print.

No fixed behaviour here. For the last two systems a group has introduced me to (Honor & Intrigue and Unknown Armies) I've bought the core book in PDF, but that hasn't been a requirement.