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<blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9052709" data-attributes="member: 6999616">The GURPS occult WWII campaign. We'd flown an Imperial Airways &quot;Empire&quot; class flying boat into a rural lake in Norway, in April 1940. Our job was to fly out royals, diplomats and some of the gold reserves. The GM, who is normally very knowledgeable, had got his research wrong, and was under the impression that the Crown Prince of Norway was unmarried and childless. Several of the players were aware this wasn't right, and there was a swift retcon. So we flew out the young boy who in the real world is the current King of Norway, his two sisters, the wife and children of the Danish ambassador, a couple of junior British diplomats and 160lb of gold. We also won a sweepstake, run by the RAF officers at Lerwick in the Shetlands, on the number of extra holes in the aircraft when we got back, with &quot;none&quot; and spent the winnings on drinks for the RAF other ranks at Lerwick. This ensures we'll get good maintenance if we go back there. There was no combat, apart from dodging anti-aircraft fire and vanishing into clouds, but a lot of tension. We planned the mission realistically, executed it effectively, and were very happy with it. We used magic for weather forecasts and to avoid fuel shortages; the mission could have been done by a mundane crew, but the margins would have been very tight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Dallman, post: 9052709, member: 6999616"] The GURPS occult WWII campaign. We'd flown an Imperial Airways "Empire" class flying boat into a rural lake in Norway, in April 1940. Our job was to fly out royals, diplomats and some of the gold reserves. The GM, who is normally very knowledgeable, had got his research wrong, and was under the impression that the Crown Prince of Norway was unmarried and childless. Several of the players were aware this wasn't right, and there was a swift retcon. So we flew out the young boy who in the real world is the current King of Norway, his two sisters, the wife and children of the Danish ambassador, a couple of junior British diplomats and 160lb of gold. We also won a sweepstake, run by the RAF officers at Lerwick in the Shetlands, on the number of extra holes in the aircraft when we got back, with "none" and spent the winnings on drinks for the RAF other ranks at Lerwick. This ensures we'll get good maintenance if we go back there. There was no combat, apart from dodging anti-aircraft fire and vanishing into clouds, but a lot of tension. We planned the mission realistically, executed it effectively, and were very happy with it. We used magic for weather forecasts and to avoid fuel shortages; the mission [i]could[/i] have been done by a mundane crew, but the margins would have been very tight. [/QUOTE]

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