Guest Post by S. A. Fisher The Artificer template in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy: Sages serves as the dungeon delving party’s engineer – it’s his job to use technology to overcome the party’s challenges. The ironmonger is a specific type of engineer detailed in this post. His most potent weapon for this purpose is his use […]
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The Hurt Locker: Mana Bucklers for Dungeon Fantasy
Guest Post by Kalzazz Mana Bucklers are usually a fancy, heavy gem marked bracelet traced in magical runes. Unless worn by a mage this is all they are. When worn by a mage the Mana Buckler can be activated by a simple ritual, using either a Concentrate maneuver or an IQ based ‘Fast Draw Mana Buckler’ roll. This consumes […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Iron Rations – A Compleat Guide to Victualing in Ye Olde Dungeon, Part II
Guest Post by S. A. Fisher Continuing my post from before, I have some more goodies for the inquiring delver! Staples More seasoned adventurers will skip the expense and novelty of the iron rations and so forth and simply buy food in bulk. Adventurers can certainly get by on iron ration levels of food for […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Iron Rations – A Compleat Guide to Victualing in Ye Olde Dungeon, Part I
Guest Post by S. A. FisherFor many dungeon delvers, the goal is simple: kick in the door, fight the monster, and loot the room. Rinse and repeat. For them, a week’s worth of “iron rations” and a water skin is more than enough detail to account for how they survive on their adventures outside of […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Fusion-Powered Chainsaw
I know, you’re reading this and thinking “What and the hell has Christopher come up with this time?” Honestly, I don’t know, man. Something happened. Then something else and now I’m here staring at this crazy thing. This bit of gear is the result of a story one of my players (+Travis Ellis) wrote about his […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Dungeon Fantasy Duelists
Using two weapons in Dungeon Fantasy is a classic trope (*cough* a certain dark elf *cough*). Pyramid #3/61: Way of the Warrior went a long way toward making two-weapon masters more effective, but how to make them truly terrifying? Well, I got a few ideas.,, …if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Tangler Pistol
So recently someone posted about the “goo guns” from the Incredibles on the forums. Since that is one of my favorite superhero flicks of all time I decided to poke at the idea of building a “goo gun” using metatronic generators. New Binding Modifiers First, some new modifiers for Binding (p. B40): Cosmic, Enhanced Layering: This […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Building an Ambush Point
GURPS After the End 2: The New World has some interesting (simplified) rules for sniper fire. This got me to thinking: How could I create a quick rule set for creating an ambush point/Sniper’s nest? PK’s wonderful little check lists (as I like to call them) such as the Hunting rules (The New World, p. 30). […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Spoiled and Rurnt
So I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and realistically – which After the End is not – batteries, ammo, etc. would have spoiled a long while back. Batteries will likely last twenty years at most and that’s being optimistic. Gunpowder eventually does go bad. MREs eventually go bad. Everything eventually becomes spoiled or […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Climbing Lines and Auto-Grapnels
I’ve been kind of chewing on this one for a while – it originally came up in a Dungeon Fantasy game I was in and I came up with an imbuement to make it work (which is fine), but I got to thinking: How does Climbing Line work? Sure, I could just say “It works!” but […]
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