GURPS Psionic Powers offers a way to create psychic characters using a powers framework. GURPS Martial Arts codifies fighting styles in an easy to use block. In Pyramid #3/69: Psionics II I created the first fusion of these two books with “Mind and Body”. Here is a martial arts style that never made it to […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Dungeon Fantasy Tropes – The Unarmored Caster
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy is the essence of the delving, dragons, and dungeons (in my humble opinion of course). The original Dungeons and Dragons had some interesting tropes (fight’n cleric, lightly armored rogue, etc.). Today I’m talking about one of my favorites: the unarmored caster. . . . . . if you’d like to read more, […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Art of the Wild VI
Like the previous five installments of this, this Patreon Special covers two new wildcard skills along with suggested benefits. . . . . . if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! Note: the link to the actual content for patrons is here.
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Best Blogging Practices
Yo, dawg, I heard you liked blogging. So I put a blog about a blog on your blog. So, you want to start a blog, becom e rich and famous, design games for the stars . . . well, the first one is possible and the latter are . . . improbable. Let’s face it. […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – June 2019
Authorial Highlights GURPS SNO-51 has been fully revised and sits in the “freezer” for now. (The “freezer” is where I put all my “finished” drafts until I do a final triple-check before submission). The Calypso-4 Kickstarter “Five Four Perilous Journeys” did an insane $40,000. Adventure #3 is with Douglas and J. Edward Tremlett is […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – May 2019
Authorial Highlights I ended up asking for (another) extension for GURPS SNO-51. This was done because I wasn’t entirely sure my editing/revision would be finished in the time I’d been allotted. Currently, my editing mark is at 64%. I still need two more examples for the appendix, but I’ve been saving that for last […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Art of the Wild V
Like the previous four installments of this, this Patreon Special covers two new wildcard skills along with suggested benefits. . . . . . 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 Psychic Vampirism Powers for Psionic Powers III
GURPS Psionic Powers is one of the best powers frameworks that GURPS fourth edition has yet to offer, seamlessly blending flavor and crunch in a perfect mix. I use it often. Here’s a power from one of my campaigns . . . . . . if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! Note: […]
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes Merlin’s Magnificent Menagerie
This one was fun to write. I want to just get that out of the way. Not all articles are fun to write – many of them (for me) are Dungeon Fantasy since I get to crank up the silliness a bit. This was fun for a different reason – because it was GURPS Technomancer. […]
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes: The Fifth Attribute
The Fifth Attribute began life in my campaign “The Awakening” in mid-2014. I wanted a way to tie in all the supernatural powers of that campaign setting along with a few campaign features to make a working cohesive framework. It took me the better part of a month to write it and I began with […]
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