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Mongoose Traveller 2300, Bayern campaign, first session: "Useful ... like a magnesium heatshield."

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: How to pass giant spiderweb?

Since I don't enjoy four-colour superhero comics, I can't really buy into the genre. Yeah, I can't help doing that.

Post-apocalypse does not appeal much. I've enjoyed a game set a few centuries later, trying to rebuild civilization, but some people seem to glory in the collapse, and that doesn't appeal at all to me.

Much the same here. The only superhero campaign I stuck with was built round mythic archetypes rather than comics tropes. I've no objection to romance spontaneously happening within a campaign, but a game where romance is the point isn't the kind of drama I can readily deal with.

I've commissioned lots of art for the GURPS fanzine I co-edit, The Path of Cunning. Dan Smith and Kurt Wilcken are the artists I've used the most. We also use a lot of Dover Books' electronic clip-art.

Avalon is infested with portals to other worlds, which open and close randomly, but has a smaller number of "nexus points", which can be controlled. Our wizard is learning to control one, which involves going through it and then practising controlling it from the other side. This uses up all her...

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon campaign: Have we best priestess on world?

Our GURPS Dungeon Fantasy campaign was often playing two scenarios at once. The player of our wizard is quite often busy with other things on Wednesdays, so the rest of the party would play a different scenario on those occasions. The GM wasn't at all bothered about continuity details, and the...

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, Pathfinder scenario: "Sorry, m'am, we are neo-sensibilists"

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon campaign: Portal opens, nothing comes through.

Looks reasonable. Players do sometimes care about this: I once pointed out to a DM that the lack of a river just there didn't make any sense unless someone had moved it underground or similar, and a whole new plot line appeared.

July, 1940. We are engaged in transporting the Duke & Duchess of Windsor from Lisbon to the Bahamas, where the Duke is to serve as governor. Because our aircraft, the Short S.30 Empire-class flying boat Cathay lacks the range for a direct Atlantic crossing, we have to go the long way around...

GURPS 4e Occult WWII. Natural, time-tested substances. Very safe.

Set up something that looks like a plot against a ruler by one of his friends? For a twist, it's actually a bluff, to see if anyone is disloyal enough to join in the plot. For a double twist, there's a real plot that's trying to exploit the bluff to get someone else blamed for a murder.

As we ascend the Orinoco River looking for El Dorado, things are gradually getting weirder. We had zombies in a graveyard ages ago, but man-sized spiders are definitely another step away from mundane reality. We were attacked by three while we were moving along the river bank, and had to stop to...

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Rafted past the giant spiders.

This is the original version of 2300 AD, not the more recent Mongoose version.

I suspect they believe it's so cool, combining the TTRPG with a video game, that everyone will crowd aboard. Groupthink can lead a company to very strange places. I haven't the slightest intention of using any form of D&D for the next campaign I run. I don't know what I will use, and I don't...

These days, I don't run third-party adventures. When creating scenarios for the campaigns I'm running, I don't design them to the details of the PC's capabilities, because that makes the game feel unreal to me. I try to make sure the general level of challenge is within the characters'...