I’ve got a few open spot in my current GURPS campaign for my Sunday group (C-Team) and Monday group (B-Team. The game will be nominally from 2pm EST to 6pm EST (C-Team) or 7:30pm to 11:30pm (B-Team). I’m looking for folks who can reliably be there, is friendly, and can do a bit of roleplaying. System mastery […]
Whenever I build a campaign setting the first thing I do is figure out what assumptions I’ll be using. I typically assume one “major” assumption (sometimes two) that forms the backbone of the campaign and then several linking assumptions that help bring it together. Since I am using real-world religions I’ll try to be as careful […]
I’ve got an open spot in my current GURPS campaign for my Sunday group (C-Team). The game will be nominally from 2pm EST to 6pm EST. I’m looking for someone who can reliably be there, is friendly, and can do a bit of roleplaying. System mastery is a plus, but not required. If you’re interested, email me. So […]
I published 35 articles with seven cover issues from June 2013 to February 2017. They were as follows: #3/56 Pyramid: Prehistory “The Old Ways,” — a collection of 29 new spells (plus rules and insight) that bring primitive magical flavor to the Ritual Path Magic system found in GURPS Monster Hunters. See here for Designer’s Notes. #3/57 […]
I published nine articles with four cover issues from November 2008 to December 2012. They were as follows: #3/28 Pyramid: Thaumatology II “It’s Pure Chemistry!” — an expansion of the alchemy rules from GURPS Magic. This article includes 10 new elixirs, three new techniques, and a new spell for those who make magical mixtures. GURPS […]
Steve Jackson Games is one of the oldest role-playing game companies out there. I’m very proud to say that I started my career with them and contributed pretty heavily to their generic RPG, GURPS. Dungeon Fantasy Companion 3 Before the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game arrived in the hands of eager fans, new material for it appeared in the […]
We always write the perfect book after the book is published. Seriously. I wish I’d had more space in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 19: Incantation Magic and the insight to add to the main book then instead of writing this article later. I’m grateful the article was published and some of the questions I’d been asked could be […]
This series is all about magic: alchemy, magical system tweaks, entirely new systems, and so on. Though this doesn’t cover magical items or the like – that’s covered by the Hurt Locker. See the Inaugural Post here. A GM’s Guide to Ritual Path Magic Spell Creation AEON Sorcery Spells I (Patreon Special!) (FREE SPECIAL!) AEON Sorcery […]
I’ve been playing role-playing games for a long time (I gamed for the first time with my brother when I was seven) and I’ve been running games for almost as long (I ran my first game when I was 11). I made a lot of mistakes in the beginning, mistakes I’d like to prevent newbie […]
Here’s the highlights for me from July 2017. Authorial Highlights I have finished a Pyramid article for Hot Spots and Locations – but it needs some work and perhaps a map. We’ll see. I submitted the Deep Space article (hint: it’s about space opera and ritual path magic) and the nameless article I mentioned before to Steven. This […]