“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”— Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) The Leech advantage (GURPS Powers, p. 96) is the more generalized version of the Vampiric Bite advantage (p. B96) that appeared in the Basic Set. (Buckle your seatbelts up kiddies because this is a long post. Note I’m intentionally ignore the Vampiric Bite […]
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GURPS101: More Psychic Vampirism Powers for Psionic Powers
Continuing my series of “Hey, let’s pad out GURPS Psionic Powers!” Today’s entry is all about psychic vampires. Yeah, they’re creepy and their powers are too, but no one can deny how useful they are… …if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! Note: the link to the actual content for patrons is here.
Continue readingGURPS101: More Cyberpsi Powers for Psionic Powers
One of the things that’s always fascinated me about the fictional portrayal of electrokinesis is that some users can power machines with their abilities. GURPS can do this by emulating the Create advantage – but it takes a little legwork.,, …if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! Note: the link to the […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Chained and Contiguous Innate Attacks
I’ve let this simmer for a while so I could think about it a bit more, but a forumite recently asked how to create an attack that would leap from one target to the next. Over the years, there have been a few attempts to make this sort of enhancement for innate attacks. I think there […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Psychic Healing Powers for Psionic Powers I
Like previous installments, here are a few new powers for GURPS Psionic Powers. For GMs who split Psychic Healing into Psychometabolism and Biokinesis the Anamorphosis power belongs in the former in GURPS 4th edition. The only real issue (and it’s the same issue that all worked frameworks have) is that there are just never enough powers… …if you’d like […]
Continue readingGURPS101: A Whole New World (of Dungeon Fantasy)
Guest Post by Scott “Rocketman” Rochat “Where’s Dungeon Master when you need him?”“Forget Dungeon Master, we need a SWAT team!”— Presto and Eric, in “Servant of Evil” from Dungeons & Dragons The crossworld visitor is a common sight in fantasy fiction. Whether it’s Dorothy arriving in Oz, Lucy coming to Narnia, or Thomas Covenant trying […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Dungeon Fantasy Sharpshooter Power-Ups
Guest Post by +Hal Batty aka Wavefunction A while back, while constructing some styles, I came up with a few different techniques for crossbow users, so after seeing Merlin’s super cool Sharpshooter template, found here, I had no choice but to write some power-ups for it. Sharpshooter Power-UpsSharpshooter power-ups focus on precision and power. Arm ST (Both […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Dungeon Fantasy Sharpshooters
Guest Post by Merlin Avery (check out his blog here!) The crossbow is quite a deadly weapon that appears in a great many fantasy works. Dungeon Fantasy leaves few templates that incorporate heavy use of the crossbow. The sharpshooter not only makes heavy use of the crossbow, it is the focus of the template. Sharpshooter […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Illusion-Casting
“Are you ever not going to fall for that?”— Loki, The Avengers (2012) The Illusion advantage (GURPS Powers, p. 94) is probably one of those things that should have been in the Basic Set, but wasn’t. Illusion as Pieces Parts:So what does Illusion do and how does it do it? This requires a Concentrate maneuver to […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Injury Resistance
In GURPS there are three forms of damage: basic damage, penetrating damage, and injury. Basic damage is the amount rolled on the dice for the attack, penetrating damage is the amount after applying Damage Resistance and other protections (e.g., Injury Tolerance), and injury is the total amount of hit points you suffered from that attack. […]
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