Here are a few new talents – mostly culled from my own campaigns. Born to the Blade 10/level Broadsword, Fast-Draw (Knife, Sword, or Two-Handed Sword), Knife, Rapier, Saber, Shortsword, Smallsword, and Two-Handed Sword. Reaction Bonus: None! You’re natural adeptness with a blade is enough. Alternative Benefit: On the other hand, instead of a reaction […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Variation of Racial Memory
The following is a variation of Racial Memory meant for immortals and long-lived beings. It represents the fact that they’ve lived exceedingly long lives and may have learned, mastered, and forgotten skills in that time. Racial Memory see p. B78 Racial Memory (Long-Lived): You’ve been around for a while. Whenever you encounter a situation, go […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Blessed Options III
One thing that’s fairly common in fiction is the ability to be in the spirit world and the real world at the same time. GURPS lacks this ability in RAW, but I got you covered. Blessed (Dual Spiritual Nature) 15 or 45 points You exist simultaneously in the Spirit and Material Worlds. For those with a partial […]
Continue readingTen Thousand Jade Petals C-Team: Season 1, Session 1 – Singing Hares and Bandits
Dramatis Personae Big Chon (Played by Chris D.): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Lin Shisheng (Played by Scott R.): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Myaing (Played by Emily S.): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Yang Wen (Played by Will M.): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Zhao Liu (Played by Travis E.): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Previously . . . Things begin several folks setting […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Deconstructing Whirlwind Attack
Recently while working on my wuxia fantasy campaign I got to thinking about attacking tons of opponents at once. Obviously, Whirlwind attack came to mind. But that ability doesn’t really match up to how you see it working in kung fu flicks. So I thought I’d do one of my deconstructions for it. (The actual […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Luck Variant – Storing Dice Rolls
the Basic Set Luck advantage allows you to roll the dice two additional times (for a total of three rolls for one task) and take the result you want. This allows for turning a failure or critical failure into a success or failure (or vice versa in some situations like if you were attacking an ally […]
Continue readingBoil and Bubble: Ritual Path Magic Spells – Path of Chance III
GURPS Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic is one of my favorite magic systems that GURPS has yet to produce. The flexibility of the system lets you do darn near anything. One of my favorite spell types is “luck manipulation” and here are a few spells I’ve made for my own games . . . . . […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Chi Powers I
In Pyramid #3/105: Cinematic Magic I used the Sorcery system in a new way: to create a chi-based powers system for cinematic martial artists. Since then I’ve added to my listed powers. Here’s a few new ones from my Ten Thousand Jade Petals campaign: . . . if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: The Elder’s Amulet
I love designing and using artifacts in my own campaign. Here’s one directly from my Ten Thousand Jade Petals campaign. . . . if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! Note: the link to the actual content for patrons is here.
Continue readingBoil and Bubble: Ritual Path Magic Spells – Path of Chance II
GURPS Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic is one of my favorite magic systems that GURPS has yet to produce. The flexibility of the system lets you do darn near anything. One of my favorite spell types is “luck manipulation” and here are a few spells I’ve made for my own games . . . . . […]
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