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Last night we started playing a Day After Ragnarok campaign, so that's definitely post-apocalypse. We're based in Australia, which hasn't been hit hard compared to most places. The initial mission was "Find out why sheep and a constable have been disappearing" and the answer was a...

I prepare until I have a decent understanding of the situation as of the start of the session. This can be a lot of research, thinking and writing, or none at all. I get names ready for new NPCs, because I'm weak at improvising those. Then I just play the NPCs and allow new situations to emerge...

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok, in Australia. "Crikey!" means "I'm still OK."

The PCs we've been playing since spring 2020 are now between 19th and 14th level, and the GM is finding it hard to challenge them. Yesterday was devoted to establishing the framework for a new campaign in Avalon, in a different part of the continent. We plan to keep on playing the current...

AD&D 1,2e, Avalon Campaign: Planning new strand of campaign.

One group I knew found a way to make it work: they had large tables on their character sheets of armour class vs armour type, with each cell being the number they needed to hit. But when that group broke up, none of them tried to bring the practice to any other groups they joined.

The groups I played in at college generally reckoned that the 1e initiative system didn't make sense, and used simpler homebrew methods. After we'd graduated and got jobs, new groups formed with combinations of people from other ones. One chap who hadn't been playing regularly and was a bit keen...

I think - at least for the groups I've played in - one of the reasons it worked was that it wasn't very prescriptive about the kind of play it was trying to produce. It also had enough inconsistencies that it was clear there was no "best play experience" from rules-as-written. We felt very free...

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Toured temples of El Dorado.

The "Roughly how many years in total have you played tabletop RPGs in your life" slider only goes up to 20. I'm at 46, aged 64.

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon Campaign. Three months downtime, Wizard is cackling.

I can only speak for myself. I play a lot of GURPS, but I don't do so "because I like a lot of crunch." I seek verisimilitude, the feeling that the story is plausible terms of the characters, events and setting. I don't try to make GURPS do settings it doesn't handle readily, but there are...

I see two problems with that idea: Gamers will resist needing a VTT, provided by some third party, to play. When a company changes its offerings, oh, look, our three-year campaign that was about to reach its climax is gone. Forever. People who play crunchy games usually modify them, at least a...

GURPS 4e Occult WWII campaign, neutral countries strand. Liberians lack urgency of "Mañana." Party fail to kill chicken.

I'm quite fond of Glorantha and RQ. The problem I have with BRP systems is that I find the advancement mechanic (roll d100 higher than the skill you've used successfully) quite frustrating. Its reasoning is sound, but I've never played RQ frequently enough to have the statistics take effect...

There isn't a published one. The GM is doing it himself; that isn't terribly hard.

GURPS 4e Day After Ragnarok, character generation session: Australian PC will wrestle Serpent?

AD&D 1.2e, Avalon campaign Scry-exploring the interplanetary plumbing system.

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: Guns stolen, King gives gold.

I don't seem to have one of these. I hoped Continuum would be compelling, but it wasn't. I had hopes of CthulhuTech, but could never get the lore straight. D&D4e I gave away before I was half-way through the Player's Handbook. I've managed to play or run pretty well everything that's ever seemed...