This started off life as a outtake from the already monstrous “Alternative Ritual Path Magic” and eventually grew into a article all its own. Not counting the time it took me to write the few chunks I excised from Alternative Ritual Path Magic this one took a surprising amount of time to incubate and write […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Lens for Scholar – The Physick
I like playing support characters whenever I play in a game. Bookworms, healers, “buff” mages, and so on are some of my favorite roles. I’ve always liked GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 4: Sages – both character templates are just so cool to me as a GM and a game designer. While working on my new […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Safer than Houses
I was talking to a friend of mine recently about the subject of “apotropes” (mythology and superstition is a common theme in our talks) and he told me something I did not know about in either subject. Names themselves can be apotropes to ward off spirits. Seriously, as much as I’ve studied and researched folk magic, […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: ROFCON 2015 Report
Steve Matousek (of Atlantis Games and Comics) is one hell of a nice guy. I’ve known him for over 16 years and he’s the sort that will do what he can to help, however he can. He’s also a excellent businessmen and knows what buttons to push to get people to buy things in his […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Deck of Wonders
I have a long (and troubling) relationship with the “Deck of Many Things” there hasn’t been a single DnD campaign I’ve ran where I haven’t willingly introduced it…or it showed up on its own. Put simply, I have a deck of cards with my other DnD things that I carried for a reason. So today’s […]
Continue readingTriple Threat: The Slender Man
The Slender Man Is he real? Is he fake? Something that someone made up on the internet? Or is that the conspiracy? Regardless of his origins the Slender Men is terrifying to behold. Reports put him (it?) at eight to ten feet tall, with pallid skin and dressed in a black suit and tie. Despite […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Tainted Blood
GURPS Monster Hunters has become one of the more popular of the GURPS lines since it came out in 2012. It’s spawned tons of Pyramid articles and (on my part at least) lots of blog posts. One of the things that I personally liked about Monster Hunters was how it let you like a reformed […]
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes: Hidden Knowledge
Hidden Knowledge was one of those things I’d already written, but hadn’t really known it until someone knocked me on the head and said “Hey, consider writing this.” In this case it was Sean “Dr. Kromm” Punch. I’d asked him some advice on a particular subject and he gave it to – in spades (and […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Cultures in Dungeon Fantasy
One of the things that I really liked about Forgotten Realms for Dungeons and Dragons 3.0/3.5 was the “Regional Feats.” With a single trait you could give your otherwise two-dimensional character real depth. One of the many things I’m seeking to emulate in my Dungeon Fantasy campaign setting, Aersalus, are some of my favorite things […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Call of the Wild
Wildcard skills are awesome. They just are. They’re a great way to represent cinematic skill mastery or even realistic legit “skill broadness” if you restrict the level to attribute or less. So how could they be better? Well, most of that’s been answered by Sean Punch in GURPS Power-Ups 7: Wildcard Skills – if you don’t […]
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