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It might be because I haven't read it in a long time, but I don't recall Shadows over Innsmouth having too much in the way of 20th century tech unless you count the grocery store or the bus the narrator rides in on. Now, the after-effects with the navy attacking the reef clearly do. As an...

In a campaign I ran, we used firearms, but they had a specific history. It was a post apocalyptic impact-winter world, where the calamity was caused by Ymir's corpse dying on another plane's Ragnarok and plummeting through the planes until it impacted with this world. Evil and chaotic factions...

Honestly, the more I sit and think about this question, the harder it is to pin down a good answer for this. Abjurer seems about right, but I'm sure there are other ways you can add to make them spooky. Looking at the spell list, I think what I'd say would make abjurers spooky is all the...

I still think Kevin Smith's 'Masters of the Universe: Revelation' is my favorite MotU product. I mean, my mind was blown when they addressed Prince Adam being able to summon the power of Greyskull WITHOUT the sword.

I've always loved the world of Dominaria, but I didn't like the article they put out for it. I've often kicked around the idea of running a D&D game set there, where the PCs and most of the threats consist of all the low-mana cost original cards.

Listening to the Omnibus podcast before, I believe musician John Roderick told Ken Jennings that 1997 didn't exist because he wasn't sure of any event happening that year.

I like this. I think it was during Superman press where James Gunn talked about Guy, and said he's the guy that, when someone needs a superhero and Guy shows up, they're just like 'Crap. Not THIS guy' and regrets not being more specific when they request a hero.

"Melee fight over a gun." Traveller. Boarding action where we're trying to disable crew, not kill them. PC #1 fails a grapple, NPC grabs PC #1's gauss pistol. NPC shoots my PC after winning a grapple against me. On my turn - all of this is in combat oder - I grab the pistol away from the...

The other day, I watched a video describing the difference between 'I apologize' and 'I'm sorry', and I learned that apology came from apologia, or more of a defense/explanation of one's actions.

Great article as always. I find there can be a lot of interesting history to work into gaming. Salem is always a good scenario given that it purports to be about infernal pacts but usually ends up being so much more of neighbors landgrabbing each other, but I think there are other good...

I don't feel that's railroading as much as plot set-up, and as long as it's not used too often (the GM taking players' abilities away ex machina) it's okay. To me, the example of railroading was, when I was younger, there was a DM. The problem was he was one of those DMs who, instead of being...

Stripping the Esseray stealth ship. (Traveller, two years post-Fall of Tinath)

I don't know if you've seen, but... they explained the disappearance of the Alphas after the Bicentennial Battle in Chicago. When I read it - it blew my mind.

An oldie but a goodie is Brave New World, if you can find it. It's all low level supers, and essentially it's Savage Worlds for a system.

If need be, this should be your party's exit...

I like this. It reminds me of John Wick's Orkworld - an RPG that started out as a 4000 word essay just so he could play an ork bard in a D&D game (the GM's attitude was that orcs are just speedbumps for adventurers) - and the concept of Trouble. Some people are born with a little Trouble, and...

Exactly. Everyone needs to eat, and doesn't have a lord to provide it, so it's often a choice of choosing to be an adventurer or choosing banditry. "I didn't choose the adventuring life. .... it chose me."

I feel adventurers in D&D are a lot like the Magnificent Seven in film. They're not trusted because they're not generally tied down to the community enough for others to vouch for them. They don't have a steady employment - say, being a hired gun for a ranch. They tend to be tougher than the...

I'd agree - a short rest is a worthwhile gamble, unless that time could be used better to get out of the complex. The resource they're lowest on might not just be HP, but information: where the Master is, what the Master is, number and disposition of remaining minions (hell, some may have seen...

Personally, I like the escape back to get a full rest outside, and come back in, prepared for stiffer resistance. Or, an option that will allow the group to find a place to hunker down and get that full rest relatively safely. Yes, you may have put the compound on full alert, but...