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GURPS conversion of Against the Cult of the Reptile God: Clever magic use subverts ambush.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy: Unexpected deal with captured assassin.

D&D 5.5e: Squished spider; freed captive sprite.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy: Assassins, cultists, mage-slayers… busy night!

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy: Carpenter's wife; envenomed blade; why?

Some years ago, I posted a short urban adventure on the Dungeon Fantasy RPG forum at Steve Jackson Games. I originally ran it for kids, but have also run it for two adult groups who enjoyed it. Here's the link (I post under the username "Dalin"): One-shot adventure: A Plague Under All of Your...

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy conversion of Ghost Tower of Inverness: Umber hulk's gaze sows discord.

For people who are interested in realism or simulationism, these more free-form rules can feel more true to reality. Even systems with fairly complex healing and recovery rules can't fully model the chaotic nature of how bodies respond to injury and heal from it. Sometimes wounds linger and take...

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy conversion of The Ghost Tower of Inverness, continued: Berserk minotaur nearly beheads wizard!

GURPS Horror: Family reunion; tropical island; shadows.

At a minimum, I usually pick a world language to use for names and a (thin) veneer of linguistic plausibility. Beyond that, I enjoy knowing a bit about local foodways, religion, holidays, music, and architecture. Decades ago I would spend an inordinate amount of time pre-creating these...

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy conversion of The Ghost Tower of Inverness, continued: Crushed by boulder; got better.

Totally understandable. Take your time!

I like this set. One question, though. Last week's room #9 had a trap door in the floor leading to the dungeon level. I think it would lead to room #4 on this week's map. Did you have other intentions for it?

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy conversion of The Ghost Tower of Inverness, continued: Rust monsters still cause mayhem.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy conversion of The Ghost Tower of Inverness: First gelatinous cube in decades!

As @BookTenTiger mentioned above, finding other supportive tasks can help. I usually take meticulous notes including sketched maps and whatnot. I'm also a fan of leaning heavily on intra-party role-playing. Could be as simple as the banter between Legolas and Gimli about how many orcs they...

Whoever will be GMing usually just picks something and everyone goes with it. A few years ago, though, I wanted to run one of J.C. Connors' excellent one-shot adventures and posted a prospectus of sorts on our group discord (screenshot below). Votes were clearly in favor of the cliffhanger...

Some adventure titles are spoilers themselves. For example, I’m currently running Against the Cult of the Reptile God for one of my GURPS groups. I told them that I’m adapting an old AD&D adventure, but not the title. They still have no idea that there’s a “cult” or a “reptile god;” the slow...