An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Revenge is best served cold. Justice will be served. Our language is littered with phrases like this. But what’s the difference between justice and revenge? Who cares! This! Is! Dungeon! Fantasy! Whether It’s a noose or bringing ‘em back alive you get your man and he gets what’s […]
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GURPS101: Lens for Multi-Professions – Flying Blade
Fiction is chock full of examples where the hero throws a knife and sticks it in the bad guy and he falls over dead. In GURPS…not so much. Today’s GURPS101 is about emulating that badassitude. Throw a knife. Bad guy falls over. Or, in this case, throw a knife, monster falls over, take it’s stuff… …if you’d like […]
Continue readingGURPS101: It Ain’t Heavy, It’s my Shield
I’m not sure where I got the idea (I’d attribute it if I could), but someone asked why shields didn’t have a minimum ST requirement like other handheld weapons did. That’s actually a really good question. From a game design perspective I understand why it’s been done the way it’s done in GURPS. Think about it, […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Human Than the Humans
GURPS Monster Hunters is one of my favorite gaming series of all time – and not just because I got to playtest or have wrote a bunch about it – I genuinely love the premise. I’ve always been partial to the horror genre, especially the kind where the protagonist knock some heads. I still regret not […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Will as HP
Over on the forums, Anders asked: A special type of undead are gastar, who consist entirely of psychic energy. This means that their HP = Will, and each time they get damaged they lose Will as well. And when they reach 0 they are destroyed. The second part is easily covered, but what about them […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Hordes, Hives, and Human Minds
I like to poke my head outside of my own bubble and work on topics that I might not otherwise pick. I think that if you’re going to keep your mind flexible the best way is to solve a problem someone else gives you rather than one you decide needs solving. Over in this thread, […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Lens for Scholar – The Physick
I like playing support characters whenever I play in a game. Bookworms, healers, “buff” mages, and so on are some of my favorite roles. I’ve always liked GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 4: Sages – both character templates are just so cool to me as a GM and a game designer. While working on my new […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Cultures in Dungeon Fantasy
One of the things that I really liked about Forgotten Realms for Dungeons and Dragons 3.0/3.5 was the “Regional Feats.” With a single trait you could give your otherwise two-dimensional character real depth. One of the many things I’m seeking to emulate in my Dungeon Fantasy campaign setting, Aersalus, are some of my favorite things […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Call of the Wild
Wildcard skills are awesome. They just are. They’re a great way to represent cinematic skill mastery or even realistic legit “skill broadness” if you restrict the level to attribute or less. So how could they be better? Well, most of that’s been answered by Sean Punch in GURPS Power-Ups 7: Wildcard Skills – if you don’t […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Simplified Unarmed Combat
So I occasionally take requests from my fellow forumites or the random guy on G+ “Hey! You should do [this]!” and…sometimes I do exactly that. So Nerdvana asked “What do you think about simplifying unarmed combat?” to which I replied “Well, Nerdy, I hadn’t thought of it really till now. But now that I think […]
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