Obscene scavengers haunting dead cities and other abandoned places, wamps have pale, vaguely egg-shaped bodies and nine swaying, web-footed leg/arms. The ‘head’ is eyeless and mouthless, with sharp-edged ears and multiple ‘nose’ organs. It has four eyes, one on each of four different limbs, with four mouths, also on four different limbs. It has a […]
Continue readingTriple Threat: Yar! There Be Monsters
I’ve been considering adding some extra resources to my blog for GURPS Gamemasters for some time. Since most of the things I create in my campaign end up as a part of a GURPS book or article somewhere I don’t usually post a lot of my game ‘stuff’ online (why give the milk away for […]
Continue readingThe Night-Dimmed Day – Part I – Game Session 3
July 2nd 2000, Sunday Angelique Ashur, Alex Hamilton, Gelar Ohanzee, Hachiko Koga, & Sergei Romanova (Part I) 12:00 pm Skokie Highway Mile-marker 30 Still patching people up Angelique, assuming the role of de facto leader, gives everyone twenty minutes before they move out of their current camp at the abandoned rest stop. Having nearly drained […]
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July 2nd 2000, Sunday Angelique Ashur, Alex Hamilton, Gelar Ohanzee, Hachiko Koga, & Sergei Romanova (Part I) 8:45 am Skokie Highway Mile-marker 17 The Old Man tries getting the Ford F-350 working but somehow manages to catch the engine block on fire. Putting it out quickly he along with Hachiko get the vehicle working again […]
Continue readingThe Night-Dimmed Day – Part I – Game Session 1
Then July 2nd 2000, Sunday Sergei Romanova (Part I) 7:25 am 3120 22nd Place, North Chicago, Illinois, USA Sergei finds himself suddenly in the hallway of suburban home with the sounds of a young girl screaming echoing off the walls. Sergei (knowing somehow that he had to protect her) runs down the hallway to find […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: The Start of Something New
A few months back I began to work on a new GURPS campaign. I must admit, however that is isn’t entirely new, there are pieces of it that date back years into my gaming history. This is because even when I scrap a campaign I don’t toss any of the ideas associated with it – […]
Continue readingTriple Threat: Sandmen
Mr. Sandman, please bring me a dream… Yep, the entire idea was slap-dashed together from that Chordettes song from back in the day, made famous by the scene from Back to the Future. Anyways, the deadline for my game was closing in and I needed more time to write-up things, but I didn’t have it, […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: I Had a Freaking Awesome Game Last Night
So yesterday I help my weekly GURPS game, I’ve been a little off my schedule due to health issues but it finally looks like we (my group and I) are getting back into the groove of gaming. Last night I think I ran one of the best games I ever have in my life, and […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: My Character Creation process, Part II
I’d like to go ahead and finish up my talk on my personal character creation process for my games, as before, I usually only run GURPS (I‘ve been known to run Chaosim’s Elfquest though…) so this is more or less specific to that system. When I last left off I had finished describing the first […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: My Character Creation Process, Part I
I’d like to talk a bit about my process for character creation in my games. Since I only really run GURPS, this is more or less specific to that game system. When I begin the process of helping one of my players create their character it almost always starts off with the same question: What […]
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