A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 6 – Assault and Flattery Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” Parker (played […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Player Immersion in Horror Campaigns
Horror is one of my favorite genres. In fact, I tend to run most games with a measure of it. Horror can go with just about anything even sometimes when you think it shouldn’t or does it. I like high-powered horror – kicking monster butt! – but I like the lower-powered stuff too. There are […]
Continue readingA Thousand Tiny Gods B-Team: Season 1, Session 7 – Red Listed
A Thousand Tiny Gods B-Team: Season 1, Session 6 – Retribution, Victory, and the Spartans Dramatis Personae Adelphin “Adel” Jean-Baptiste (played by L.A.): Godling of Werethekau and Baron Samedi. Machiavellian meddler. Power unto herself. Adelphin can kill with a glance, manipulate magic as if she were born to it (and she was), and doesn’t seem […]
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A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 5 – Goat Fatigue Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” Parker (played by […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Reducing GM Overhead
Roleplaying games in general can get complicated even if it’s far on the end of narrativism. Simulationist RPGs tend to get a bad rap for overcomplications, rules, etc., but narrativist games can have the same problem with the GM having to interpret on the fly when a circumstance or event happens in game that the […]
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A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 4 – Recruitment Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” Parker (played by Will): […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Unlimited Uses of Per Session Abilities
Some of the abilities in GURPS are priced in uses per session, but not all abilities are priced that way. This can lead to some oddities when creating a character who have abilities that are mixed type. Most abilities are either “always on” (e.g., they are active at all times for the character) or “switchable” […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: 2021 – A Year In Review
Here are how things went for me in 2021: The Good (What I did well or that went well) GURPS Realm Management was published at the beginning of the first quarter. It sold pretty well and I’m looking at doing a follow-up or three. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves was turned in after a good playtest […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – December 2021
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. I I need to do some finishing up of that novel I wrote and then fridge it for a few months before going back to it and revise/edit it. We’ll see how I feel about it […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – October and November 2021
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. I wrote a novel (which is why I missed updating in November) for National Novel Writing Month. You can and should write at any time. But 30 days for 50,000 words? That’s a nice challenge. One […]
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