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Category Archives: Designer’s Notes

Designer’s Notes: GURPS Horror – Beyond the Pale

Posted on October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 by Christopher R. Rice | No Comments

GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale was not the first collaboration I’d done with J. (and it wasn’t the last). It was however a situation where I felt we’d both shine. J. has a singularly gifted ability with horror and the unknown. One that has shown up often in his works. When Steven came to me […]

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Designer’s Notes: GURPS Monster Hunters: Power-Ups 1

Posted on August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 by Christopher R. Rice | 2 Comments

Ahhh, where to begin? This was my first solo work. I’d previously written GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 19: Incantation Magic with Antoni Ten Monrós and Dungeon Fantasy Traps with Jason “PK” Levine. Of course, one could say my numerous Pyramid articles were “solo” as well – but there is a difference of length that really makes them […]

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Designer’s Notes: Native American Crusaders

Posted on July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 by Christopher R. Rice | No Comments

Native American Crusaders was a topic I wanted to cover for GURPS Monster Hunters for a long time. I’m of native descent and got to take things I’d been told about in my childhood (the raven mocker being one) and turn that into GURPS statblocks. That’s pretty heavy stuff. I grew up on the stories of my […]

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Designer’s Notes: Chevaliers and Commanders

Posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 by Christopher R. Rice | 2 Comments

My last article. The last article I would write for Pyramid . . . was not written completely by myself. I co-write it with Hal “Wavefunction” Batty. In actuality, I had written the chevalier as standalone article with lots of mount choices, new gear, and more power-ups that were not in the final draft then I […]

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Designer’s Notes Merlin’s Magnificent Menagerie

Posted on May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 by Christopher R. Rice | 1 Comment

This one was fun to write. I want to just get that out of the way. Not all articles are fun to write – many of them (for me) are Dungeon Fantasy since I get to crank up the silliness a bit. This was fun for a different reason – because it was GURPS Technomancer. […]

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Designer’s Notes: The Fifth Attribute

Posted on May 9, 2019May 10, 2019 by Christopher R. Rice | No Comments

The Fifth Attribute began life in my campaign “The Awakening” in mid-2014. I wanted a way to tie in all the supernatural powers of that campaign setting along with a few campaign features to make a working cohesive framework. It took me the better part of a month to write it and I began with […]

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Designer’s Notes: Croatoan Point

Posted on December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 by Christopher R. Rice | No Comments

Croatoan Point . . . the messed up love child of Outland, the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony, and my childhood fear of spiders who can move between the walls. (Yes, that was a fear I had as a child. I was a weird child.) All in all it took me about 25 hours to […]

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Designer’s Notes: Aethyric Space

Posted on November 22, 2018November 22, 2018 by Christopher R. Rice | No Comments

Aethyric Space was the second article I co-wrote with J. Edward Tremlett. We decided early on the best thing to do was to partition the work according to our strengths. J. knows how to write a compelling bit of fluff and I’m a fair hand with the crunch. Together we hopped to create an interesting […]

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Designer’s Notes: The Witched Gun

Posted on October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 by Christopher R. Rice | 1 Comment

When S. A. Fisher came to me with an idea for a Pyramid article I immediately offered to help him in whatever way I could. Shawn had assisted me previously with a few other projects in the past, played cheerleader when I needed it, and in general acted as the mentor I view him as. When […]

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Designer’s Notes: It’s an Encounter!

Posted on August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 by Christopher R. Rice | 1 Comment

This article was such a struggle to write. I was dealing with personal problems at the time, and the timeline to write it was abou 13 days (fully revised and edited). I’ve worked with more difficult deadlines and projects, but other factors were not in play at the time. I knew what I wanted, but […]

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