Norse magic, or seiðr (anglicized as siedhr), is typically practiced by women (called völva or seiðkona), but male practitioners (called seiðmaðr) are possible. Seiðr magic involves the manipulation of the elements, communication with the gods and their messengers, traveling the nine-realms, fortune-telling (usually by runes), and the direct manipulation of fate. Practitioners of both sexes […]
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GURPS101: More Telepathy Powers for Psionic Powers III
GURPS Psionic Powers offers one of the more interesting power frameworks for GURPS Fourth Edition. The following new techniques are available to any psi who has the prerequisite power… …if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! Note: the link to the actual content for patrons is here.
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes: It’s a Quest!
Hmmm. Where to start with this one? Well, like my two other installments (“It’s a Threat!” and “It’s a Trap!“) “It’s a Quest!” is designed to help make the GM’s life easier by giving advice, content, and some random generation tables to help jumpstart games. I briefly talk about two important modes of gameplay: “sandbox” […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Simplified Improvement Through Study
I like to play around with the Basic Set rules – make the complicated stuff simple and the simple stuff complicated. I find you can learn a lot about a rules system by doing that and GURPS is no exception. In my current campaign – The Chronicles of Ceteri – a lot of the external friction I’m […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Doodads and Gewgaws, Part I
No adventurer or hero can carry everything they need. GURPS allows you a extremely broad choice of gear thanks to its many catalogues and tech-books – but what if you really need a bunch of paperclips and you’re not near an office? Or you need to make a repair to an engine and you’ve got no […]
Continue readingBoil and Bubble: Old Skool Delving Incantations I
It’s been a while since I pumped out the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy book I cowrite with +Antoni Ten Monrós. I was looking over some of my old Advanced Dungeons and Dragons books and I got to thinking – how could I do this in GURPS using my system? So here are a few old school spells translated into Incantation […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: The Worthiness or Unworthiness of Complex Mechanics
Today is a fine GURPSday and today I’m going to ramble on about a topic near and die to every gamer’s heart: How can the complexity of mechanics affect the actual roleplaying of a game? First, a few things. To play a roleplaying game is to have some measure of mechanical institutions within the game […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: How Tough is Wood?
Guest Post by Euan Hastie So how touch is wood anyways? In GURPS terms? First up a quick reference table for the GM in a hurry. Species of Timber DR per inch of thickness Buloke, Quebracho, Quebracho Colorado, Lignum Vitae 7 Brazilian Tiger Mahogany, snakewood 6 Ebony, Ipê, Olivewood, Ironwood 5 Composite Bamboo, Bloodwood, Live […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Psychic Healing Powers for Psionic Powers II
Some more powers and variations for psychic healers using the GURPS Psionic Powers framework . . . . . . 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: Technomagic Ritual Path Magic Spells
A couple of technologically related ritual path magic spells for all the technomancers out there . . . . . . if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! Note: the link to the actual content for patrons is here. This special is free to all and can be found here.
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