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May 1940. Last session, we were present for the British invasion of Iceland, which was very polite. We were able to foil some German schemes, and stop some of their agents from impeding the invasion. But one of the agents got away. We split the party, as three of us flew captured codebooks back...

GURPS occult WWII campaign: Enemy agent caught mid-Atlantic.

In which case, the wording of the survey and its alpha-testing have been done carelessly, without questioning the author's assumptions. I'm partially sighted. I was doing the survey on a landscape-format laptop screen, with the font sizes turned up far enough that I have about six question rows...

It reads more like a sales tool for business start-up services. Given that, and the way the positive end negative ends of the scale confusingly flip around, I felt my answers would be of no value and abandoned the survey.

It seems remarkably obsessed with the idea of starting a business.

GURPS Cold War Pulp: Super-intelligent seals; next, polar bears!

The departing player is for an interesting reason. The Monday Avalon group has been running for four years, and the party are about 12th level. The DM is running another weekly session, in Avalon, and the departing player has been in that too. He feels it will be easier if he isn't having to...

AD&D1e, Avalon ca,paign: Player departed; big reveal; planning!

The thing that was outstanding when it appeared was its terseness, and the amount of plot that could thus be fitted into relatively short volumes. Compared with the vast tomes that Donaldson and Brooks were producing at the time, it was very refreshing. Many gamers had their tastes formed in...

Sailing, climbing mountains, no complications!

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Finished battle, new investigation now.

Blades in the Dark: Rescued girl from Red Sashes,

Fairly traditional, but I'm always willing to take suggestions from the players about how things might be. Filling in all the gaps myself is impossible, and plausible ideas will get used.

Trying to, quite literally, play a Hero system character, using Hero system mechanics, in a D&D game. Or if prevented from doing that, making up a weird ancestry/background that makes his character special in strange ways. The setting is part of a meta-campaign that allows for a lot of...

Something even cooler is when a group of disparate characters, generated separately, evolve into a team and become far more than the sum of their parts. It isn't common, and takes quite a lot of play, but it's great when it happens. I fondly remember Hoyyou the Barbarian. INT 3, WIS 17. He...

I have several modes of adventure-running, depending on the ambition level and style of the campaign. The last time I ran anything resembling traditional fantasy, the characters were in a police force in a large city. This was inevitably informed by the Night Watch sub-series of Pratchett's...

AD&D1e, Avalon campaign: Soul's information content vs spirit's?

GURPS Cold War Pulp: Met Dero's queen; trade starting.

It does, and the term also gets misused for games in a generally similar style, but different mechanics. This confused me at first with BitD, although not nearly as much as the Roll20 character sheet.

I mostly run GURPS, simply because the kinds of semi-historical games that I like to run fit it well, and my players are used to it. I don't feel any pressure to conform to fashions in the hobby. The only other rule system I've run recently is AD&D1e, for the setting I've been running since...