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This is generally my biggest complaint with most of the published adventures. They don't go into detail about the why of the conflict. I have no trouble making one for my table but it would be nice to have a sentence or two about why the conflict exists.

I am a big fan of GURPS for anything in the human scale. Superhuman high point value characters get odd. The best thing is that you can turn on or off the detail for you game fairly easily. When people talk about taking a long time for combat, I don't see that unless you turned on all the...

I really don't like level based RPGs for modern or science fiction. I prefer Traveller, GURPS, HERO, or just about anything else that doesn't have levels.

I hope it has the most important thing about having pets in a roleplaying game. Being able to buy them cute hats.

Spaceward Ho! and NetTrek for mac LANS. That was fun Edit: Forgot Mac Bolo - networked tank game. So much fun

I run games mostly because I haven't found anyone in my area who runs games they way I like to play. I love trying new games and new GMs at conventions and I've had good play experiences. The games I have played in local haven't been as fun for me as a player. I would run more games but I don't...

As written the module is deeply flawed. I combined all 4 villains and my group had a great time. I did not use the Remix as I had my own ideas which was everyone after the treasure and the party smack in the middle where everyone thinks they know more than they did and they had to play it...

I've finished Day of the Tiffids and Semoisis for the Stellaris book club. We meet on their official discord server. Trying to read more of my Analog magazines, I'm too many issues behind right now.

I used the Alien generation article to make Starfire races. Lots of fun.

I cannot imagine a DM just choosing the campaign and expecting players to all sign up for it without discussion. As a GM, I pitch 3-5 ideas to the players and then we see who shakes out at each idea. Some ideas don't get any players, some get the players interested and then we have a session...

The one concern I have about GURPS Traveller is that the sheer number of skills might be a bit out of hand. You can pare down the skills but the need to get high numbers for piloting, navigating, Jump Drive engineering, and gunnery within the GURPS system throws things a bit out of whack. I...

I tend to be a big fan of GURPS Traveller. I enjoyed the original black books but haven't really been able to get into the new versions.

I haven't seen episode 6, but episode 5 was a big meh from me. Nothing new was conveyed. Seemed like a lot of filler. Even Gaal's backstory didn't really give us new things to work with.

Western conflicts do have a lot of possibilities. Cattle ranchers versus Sheep Ranchers, over throw corrupt government (mayor, judges, marshall), water right warfare, train routes, county seats, and more. There are a lot of things to fight over but westerns are focused between the in group and...

Now that sounds like a great game idea. But not everyone likes everything. Just be honest about what you do and do not want to play.

Pendragon (I think 5th edition)

I ran a game with it in the 80s and it worked okay. It is clunky but a lot of systems were back then. We muddled through. The sector books are still great for science fiction game ideas.

While there is a quote where "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" It may be better to say Power attracts the corruptible. The super serum will always be attracting those that wish to profit from the power no matter the good intensions. The Ultimate Marvel Universe had a lot of...

Throw in some Steampunk or Space 1889 flying ships and that's a crazy fun world to play in

No matter what system, it wouldn't be bad to pick up Reign of Steel from GURPS that does a good job of making organic life difficult.