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About 30 in my going-out-to-play roll, a few hundred custom d6s of many designs that I designed and had made in 2015-16, and, ah, assorted others. I got quite into designing dice, to the extent of custom dice for campaigns, until the pound suddenly sank in 2016, and it seemed time to stop.

Honor & Intrigue, Privateers of the Complications: What's wrong? Go rescue NPCs.

We took the robot apart using a Wand of Force, X-Ray vision, and persistence. We found what seemed to be the brain, which was all ceramic and destroyed that thoroughly. The next morning, what appeared to be a small spaceship appeared through the nexus point. Its power is out, because advanced...

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Dismantled robot, then aliens arrived.

Mostly not. I'm well aware that the cosmic significance of the games I play and run is limited. I've had some wonderful experiences along the way, but they don't affect anyone except me and the other players. If they keep turning up and are not vociferously complaining, things are going...

This is complicated, even by Avalon standards. 46 years ago, game time, in Avalon's year 1998, the person who embodied Evil at the time was killed. The person† who did that had been sent to steal something from her, but went beyond his instructions. Among other problems*, this unbalanced the...

AD&D1e, Avalon Campaign: Deity reconnected, dead robot appears.

SJ Games used to only sell their PDFs on their own store, Warehouse 23, but they found that quite a few potential customers wanted to buy everything from DriveThru, so they started selling there too.

One of the PCs has an odd relationship with time: she can sometimes see into the future, and she can summon equipment and skills from there. She is followed around, much of the time, by some fascinated Buddhist mystics. They are an Enemy disadvantage, not worth much because they don't want to...

GURPS4e Occult WWII, India game. Opposition thought Enemy were masterminds.

Told military intelligence new things.

Could the cleric be the sole survivor from the last party the mercenaries dumped in here?

Please tell me that the idea of "balanced" hasn't grown to the point where there are games where a herbalist is likely to be as good in combat as a knight?

I ticked that one because of a player who can't stop talking about his employee benefits, although they are of no interest to anyone else.

"There's none of them round here, lad. Dragons and elementals in this world aren't interested in breeding with humans, and half-demons are treated as demons."

It depends on the setting, and the premise. The last time I had to be firm about this was with a campaign within the great big meta-campaign, where the characters were a newly formed squad within a city's police force. One of the players was immediately thinking in terms of exotic cross-breeds...

Exactly. RPGs are a medium of their own. Trying to emulate different medium's forms of story in them is fraught with peril.

This is why I prefer to know a fair bit more than I show. It makes creating scenarios more work, but knowing more about why something is there avoids glitches and makes the setting more consistent.

I've successfully run a multi-session segment of a campaign featuring an NPC who was more knowledgeable and magically skilled than the party, but less used to combat. There wasn't much violence: they were exploring a region of the astral plane. It probably helped that they'd known and trusted...

The problem comes with games that build "balancing" for combat encounters into the rules, which more or less started with D&D 3e. It makes running games much easier and safer for new GMs, but has this downside. It may have others, but I've rarely played and never run such games, so I don't know.