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Finally got all of EE Doc Smiths Lensman series on my e-book reader, so I’m gonna enjoy that when I finish my Felix & Gotrek spree. My Lensman paper books are sadly a mess of loose pages.

My players leaned into power trappings from the start, so I Pavloved that - at least once per session they can earn a bennie by giving an evocate description when using a power wrapped in their specific trappings. They need to be inventive and can’t repeat themselves if they want the reward. I...

I'm generally very generous with my bennies, and even more so in our current Savage Pathfinder campaign, mostly because my players tend to spend them very frivolously - which make for a fun game where players aren't afraid to take risks. Even though our games are mostly focused on roleplaying...

Savage Worlds is my main system. Currently I'm running a fantasy city campaign using Savage Pathfinder, it's been going on for little less than a year. The system fits my style of GMing and home brewed semi sandboxy campaigns perfectly. It's very light on the mechanical prep and is easy to...

I started with Traveller and Runequest, and only later added AD&D to the repertoire. When we ran D&D style dungeon crawls, we used the Runequest system, since D&D combat was obviously inferior ;-) It took a while to start using AD&D rules, and then we always started at higher level. It was much...

Impatiently tapping fingers on table, waiting for official CoC modules for FoundryVTT

Re-reading the first two Felix & Gotrek omnibuses, since against better knowledge I'll start up a second weekly campaign, GMing WFRP4e on Foundry. But as we all know, one can never have too much Grey Seer Thranquol.

As a perma-GM only playing online via Foundry, I love it, since the vast majority of the crunch is player facing and the Foundry implementation is incredibly good. It's probably one of the most lazy systems to GM that I've tried. It's one of the last systems I would like to be a player in though.

As to social skills etc: In my campaigns no matter what system there is usually a heavy focus on roleplaying and the social pillar. And my players must always talk, argue and be clever if they want to fool a guard or squeeze info from a tightlipped bureaucrat. Investing in social skills gives a...

Yes, I would love it too!

Random chargen is a big no for me, for the above reasons. I always have a chat with my players about overarching campaign theme and rough party composition from fun and power level perspectives. They are then free to choose from a limited list, and I throw them a small amount of bonus starting...

Ime it depends very much on how light your/your GM’s touch is. And it’s kind of built into the game expectations that even if you live, sooner or later there will be amputation, corruption and mutations. And the system is not only crunchy but also wonky in many ways, like if C7 added artificial...

Pandora's Star and Neutronium Alchemist series are amazing, and Great North Road is one of my Hamilton favorites. His earlier Greg Mandel books is also very good reading. Fallen Star on the other hand is one of the few very mediocre PFH books. I simply found it boring and unengaging.

Well, it also put petrol on the everburning pile that is geek genre definition wars, which obviously is what we enjoy on our spare time. 1000 post threads about wether a book is 2nd gen cyberpunk or proto-transhumanism is part of our culture, darnit! ;-)

I was referring to publishers hard locking books in rigid genres.

I don't agree with you, and thankfully we are allowed to have different opinions and perspectives :-)

That genres are arbitrary and defined from many different perspectives - not the least marketing, profit and consumerism - is true. I still mean that using general analytic methods for defining good litterature shoots beside the target when judging wether a genre book is good from a genre...

It may well be that Dune lives up to objective and traditional literature analysis standards of being a good book. Genre literature however doesn't necessarily need to live up to those criteria to be seen as a good book within the framework of the genre. Sci fi in general is about raising the...

This is really an impossible question, with the plethora of subgenres and great books. But if I have to pick one, I must say Neuromancer, just because of how it made my head explode in my early teens. Neal Stephenson is still my number one author though.

I have lots of grog nagging about settings etc, but that is more a Wizards than a system problem. But I have one major overarching problem with 5e. D&D is a combat focused system, and still the combat is incredibly dull. Monsters are boring bags of hit points, there is very little meaningful...