GURPS After the End 1: Wastelanders brought us the amazing rules modification “Long-Term Fatigue Points.” A system which allows the GM to assess penalties for lack of food, water, sleep, or a comfortable environment without the hassle the regular rules may pose to some. I’ve repurposed these rules a lot on my blog and in my […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Doodads and Gewgaws, Part II
The follow-up to a previous post. This post is all about the Doodad perk and a few other odds and ends for gizmos and gizmo-like traits. Foreight, Schmoresight+Pk Levine‘s “Fortunately, I Saw This Coming” from Pyramid #3/53: Action is one of my absolute favorite articles of all time. It’s a bit of brilliance that if there is ever a […]
Continue readingThe Chronicles of Ceteri – A-Team – S00E10 – Given Up for Dead, Part II
The Chronicles of Ceteri – A-Team – S00E09 – Given Up for Dead, Part I Dramatic Personae Sir Al-Shams mac Lannageal aka Al MacLannageal (played by +Christian Gelacio): Man out of time. The Last Templar Knight. Warrior. Scholar. Sorcerer. Carries the Blood of Solomon and is the benighted grandchild of Brigid. Annalise “Annie” M. Murphy (played by +Ann LS): Exorcist […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – June 2017
I figured I should probably start doing a monthly update on Patreon as part of my “new plan” so that’s what I’m going to do. But today is Independence Day in the USA and I’m going to spend it with my family. I still want to go through the plan with my $5 and up […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Simplified Skill Maintenance
Last week I talked about how to simplify the Improvement Through Study rules to streamline them in a way that allows you to track such things, without it becoming homework. This week I’m going to talk about another rule that’s great to use . . . but problematic in the execution: Skill Maintenance. Maintaining skills […]
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes: It’s a Quest!
Hmmm. Where to start with this one? Well, like my two other installments (“It’s a Threat!” and “It’s a Trap!“) “It’s a Quest!” is designed to help make the GM’s life easier by giving advice, content, and some random generation tables to help jumpstart games. I briefly talk about two important modes of gameplay: “sandbox” and […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Simplified Improvement Through Study
I like to play around with the Basic Set rules – make the complicated stuff simple and the simple stuff complicated. I find you can learn a lot about a rules system by doing that and GURPS is no exception. In my current campaign – The Chronicles of Ceteri – a lot of the external friction I’m […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Doodads and Gewgaws, Part I
No adventurer or hero can carry everything they need. GURPS allows you a extremely broad choice of gear thanks to its many catalogues and tech-books – but what if you really need a bunch of paperclips and you’re not near an office? Or you need to make a repair to an engine and you’ve got no […]
Continue readingBoil and Bubble: Old Skool Delving Incantations I
It’s been a while since I pumped out the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy book I cowrite with +Antoni Ten Monrós. I was looking over some of my old Advanced Dungeons and Dragons books and I got to thinking – how could I do this in GURPS using my system? So here are a few old school spells translated into Incantation […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: The Worthiness or Unworthiness of Complex Mechanics
Today is a fine GURPSday and today I’m going to ramble on about a topic near and die to every gamer’s heart: How can the complexity of mechanics affect the actual roleplaying of a game? First, a few things. To play a roleplaying game is to have some measure of mechanical institutions within the game […]
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