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My latest favorite villain was known as "Heffaklumpen" (the alluded blue elephant thingy from Winnie the Poh). I made him as a not so big bad for a short drug smuggling side adventure meant as a distraction while the lowbie characters where on their way to a major city. It turned out my players...

Last time I was a player was around 1983-84. GM for life.

Last time I was a player was around 1983-84. I GM every Friday evening, with breaks for vacations and some holidays.

I have so many good memories from playing AD&D in the 80ies. It's not a game I would play today though, even though it's fun to read the old tomes sometimes, for an exercise in High Gygaxian prose.

Yes, and the variation I choose is Traveller Savage Worlds. Me and my players enjoy the system and have used it for different genres and power levels. And since it will be easy to adapt it to Travellers setting and premisses, I see no reason why not to use it. Fun is fun, no matter where you...

We all have our favorite systems :-) For me Savage Worlds have very transparent mechanics and create competent characters while keeping combat dangerous, and it's very easy to adapt to Traveller tech levels and their consequences. But then again, another positive with Traveller is that it's...

Little black books Traveller (and Runequest) was the first rpg I played back in the eighties, we had lots of fun. Today Mongoose 2ed have great products, I love the Third Imperium setting and the game premisses, but I don’t enjoy the mechanics. So this fall I will start up a traditional...

I'm not a player, but I expect my players to use their sheet as a base for their roleplaying. If they don't, they can go do freeform stateless roleplaying at another table.

Almost everything related to UN grounds for discrimination, such as socioeconomic class perspectives, as well as broader moral issues gets a pass here. Killing for profit, erasure of art and history, cults of destructive capitalism and using divine power paralleling real world religions for...

I'm not a player. As a GM I have my comfort zone of traditionalist systems with low-mid to high crunch and reasonable prep requirements. But within that framing, I'm extremely flexible.

It's simply a matter of where one want to put time and emphasis in ones game. In my group, rations and torches are implied, but having the correct seal on the forged letter of passage to present to the duergar royal majordomo definitely isn't, nor is balancing the fine line of eloquence...

Yes. A couple of episodes have moved me in a way usually only possible by literature or real life. Fantastic stuff.

Tracking rations and torches is usually unfun. But I will start up Abomination Vaults in Pathfinder 2e as a system test, and will try to run it totally RAW including encumbrance etc, we'll se how it goes.

Party murderhoboed the whole sanatorium.

My personal view, with the caveat that I did already give up on D&D before the OGL debacle, is that WotC should just give up on the old settings, since the late returns have been less than stellar. Have the old settings available as pdf's, with warning labels if necessary, and just start from...

I really like Pathfinder. It speaks to the 12-year old me that spent a lot of time alone in the woods. In reality it's just another d20 fantasy murderhoboing game, even though I love it. Another one is the old pastiche game Violence. Contrary to Pathfinder, here you get what the name implies...

Savage Pathfinder core p.164. It’s not rocket science, fast and fun to run, and very easy to adapt to any traditional style system. It just put some meat on meaningful social conflicts.

I love skill-less social negotiations as pure roleplay, but Savage Pathfinders social challenge system is amazing for making social skills meaningful. I as GM still hand out + or - to rolls depending how the player roleplay it, but skills matter and I use it al lot.

If I was a realms god, no wifi and an eternal Cheetos ban would be punishment enough for the non-believers.

Somehow I have neglected Robert W Chambers The King In Yellow. It’s amazing of course. Besides that, lots and lots, and lots, of Pathfinder 2e rule and setting books. And it’s about time for yet another lustfilled re-reading of EE Smiths Lensman series.