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GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: "Deadly danger? Stage commando raid!"

Back to playing after a couple of weeks skipped due to GM's computer being sick. We recruited some satyrs, with a consequent rise in the ongoing innuendo level. Aster, our Priestess of Artemis who is charged with the mission to avoid civil war, got to take part in the convocation, and shifted...

AD&D1.2e, Avalon campaign. Recruited satyrs, prepared for journey.

GURPS Spaceships, a much more recent and simpler product than GURPS Vehicles, has a simple abstract space combat system that's fairly easy to apply to other kinds of vehicle. The Path of Cunning, a GURPS fanzine I co-edit, has a combat system for WWII aircraft derived from Spaceships. It's in...

In 45 years of gaming, I have had two favourite systems. The first was a slightly variable mixture of AD&D1e and OD&D plus all is supplements, which is what the Loughborough meta-campaign played from 1979, and still plays. Individual sessions were usually one or the other, but some characters...

Politics: the Sikh prince in the party has been signing declarations of friendship and co-operation with other governments in the region around northern India. These include Indian princely states and Afghanistan. Today he got called in by his cousin, the Maharaja of Patiala State to ask about...

GURPS 4e Weird War II, China-Burma-India theatre: Politics, recruiting, travelling, insurance, cliff-hanger.

Our Honor & Intrigue GM is a gifted player, and tends to forget that the rest of us aren't quite as lucky as him, and don't have insight into the forthcoming challenges . Yesterday, the quest for El Dorado appeared truly hopeless, and the players were seriously considering abandoning it. They'd...

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Abandon quest? GM turns friendlier.

Along the same lines, but less costly: Operation White Box.

I'm afraid I view RPGs are a distinct story form, and regard styling them after another form as a category error.

The sixth issue of The Path of Cunning, the world’s funniest GURPS fanzine, is now freely available from The Path of Cunning. Written by Shimmin Beg, Scott Maykrantz, Matt Wehmeier, Roger Bell_West and John Dallman. Artwork by Dan Smith and Los Alamos National Laboratories, plus Wikimedia...

As a GM, pacing is a dramatic tool and a way of accommodating the players' interest levels in different bits of the scenario. For example, I've run most of the last couple of sessions of Cold War Pulp quite slowly, because the characters are trying to figure out some alien technology and the...

It depends on how the cosmology is used. Having it be important all the time, for every character, seems like concentrating too much on one aspect of a setting. Having it be a background thing that shapes aspects of the world is good, it makes the setting distinctive as opposed to generic...

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp: Nazis "Oh, no, it's you!"

Every group I've played AD&D1e with did it a little differently. One DM of my acquaintance reckoned he'd figured out the RAW and tried to apply it in a large scenario. The players enjoyed making his system give ridiculous results in a different way each round. Don't challenge mathematicians if...

No session, GM's computer sick.

The session before last, a party of troops from the empire showed up, with two demands: The convocation of priests that's developing should happen in the capital. The foreigners (the PCs) appear to have entered the country without permission. They should come to the capital to sort this out...

AD&D1.2e, Avalon campaign: Recruited Olive Nymph, Athena's Owls.

GURPS 4e Cold War Pulp Antarctic tunnels with working vehicles!