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I've heard of at least one campaign where the PCs were members of a gypsy band, with the stereotypical gypsy house-carts. And I have wandering gypsy bands of that sort in my Etan setting, although I haven't worked them out except in the sketchiest of ways. ("They make up a semi-acknowledged...

There's an old saying in the Science Fiction fan community that "The Golden Age of Science Fiction is 14."

Currently I'm only running a D&D game. Over the course of time I've also run or played: Runequest Tunnels & Trolls Villains & Vigilantes The Fantasy Trip (and my homebrew based on TFT) Champions Star Trek (FASA edition, IIRC) Call of Cthulhu GURPS One or two other obscure systems from older...

Yes, GURPS and the Traveller setting were a good fit. I do have a minor aesthetic regret that SJG put the original "Beowolf calling for help" on the cover rather than the ad text of a ship replying "Hang in there Beowolf. Help is on the way."

I have four feet of GURPS supplements from back when I was buying them. My favorite handful would be High Tech, Ultra-Tech, Space, Swashbucklers, and Middle Ages 1. Low Tech I found to be relatively disappointing after High and Ultra-Tech.

List of Divination Methods From The Complete List of Divination Methods (Ancient & Modern) - Occultist 1. Astrology: Interpreting celestial bodies’ movements for divination. 2. Augury: Predicting the future by observing birds. 3. Cleromancy: Casting lots or dice for divination. 4. Extispicy...

It's never come up in my games. But then my style is to handwave away all the gritty lovely-filth realism of camping out in the wilderness with mundane medieval gear. The PCs are assumed to be competent, and so are able to deal with making and breaking camp as a matter of routine. So Tiny Hut...

As others have pointed out, sci-fi artifacts and elements in D&D and in fantasy in general has been a trope for a very long time. It's not a trope I particularly like, and it's one I leave out of my own settings and games. But I can't call it either a new intrusion or a wrong thing. It's a...

I expect to do that in my next campaign too. In my current Brotherhood of Rangers game, all the PCs have at least 6+Int per level because they're all ranger-gestalts. This also fixes the issue of those 2+Int classes having such short class-skill lists. Overall, this works for the Brotherhood of...

I found the cross-class skill penalty to be too severe for my tastes. Between that and the other issues I had, I ended up creating house rules that I later learned were very close to (but not identical with) the Pathfinder 1e changes in cross-class & multiclass skills. I was tempted to just...

The only Forgotten Realms product that I ever bought was Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. Just not interested in any of the other Forgotten Realms products.

The three most important things about 3.x that brought me back after drifting away from 1e & 2e were, in order of decreasing importance: 1. A skills system that was actually half-way decent. It needed some cleaning up, but it didn't completely suck the way earlier attempts at skills and...

I responded to the poll back when but didn't post a comment. So now I'll post that I found 2e to be a modest advance over AD&D 1e, and that at the time I saw the "Complete Whatever" spatbooks as muchkin-bait but in retrospect not that bad. But when 3e came out I immediately adopted it as my very...

1. A reveal that the supposed fantasy campaign is actually post-apocalypse, which is something I can sometimes admire from a distance but would never actually run. 2. A junkyard or cache of old tanks in an openly post-apocalypse game where tanks are advanced tech from the Before Times. The...

I'll add: I'm unfond of critical hit systems in general, and while I'm not quite annoyed enough by the 3.5e version to reflexively apply a house rule to nerf them (or outright eliminate them), I am toying with a rule that all crit multipliers are reduced by 1 (and since most weapons have a 2x...

I don't want them to get crits on undead, but I do want them to get their class damage bonuses (favored enemy and sneak attack). Critical hits are a matter of luck but those class bonuses are a matter of character skill and knowledge. I want that that sort of character skill and knowledge to...

I voted "no apocalypse" but it somewhat depends on how one defines "apocalypse." Is medieval Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire "post apocalyptic"? In my old Etan campaign, I had some big in-world changes, including all the gods dying, when I changed over the system from AD&D to TFT and...

Players will fight tooth and nail against changes that force their PCs into being the subjects of attrition play. They will try very hard to have their PCs be at their best as often as possible. Some GMs will use the natural passage of time along with various time-pressure strategies as an...

Frequent-rest games being common is reality. My claim is that they're common because players prefer them to the offered alternatives - and if that's reality too, then that's also hard to fight.

Players will fight this tooth and nail - and they won't be wrong to do so. As a player I would fight it tooth and nail - or more likely just walk away from the table. There are good reasons why frequent rests and the five-minute-day have become a thing. It's in the players' interest to seek to...