“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”— Pythagoras The Allies advantage (p. B00) can represent a plethora of abilities. From a steadfast ally to the supernatural ability to summon a monster to fight for you. Allies as Pieces Parts:So what […]
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GURPS101: Leeches, Vampires, and Succubi (Oh, my!)
“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”— Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) The Leech advantage (GURPS Powers, p. 96) is the more generalized version of the Vampiric Bite advantage (p. B96) that appeared in the Basic Set. (Buckle your seatbelts up kiddies because this is a long post. Note I’m intentionally ignore the Vampiric Bite […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Thoughts on the Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter
Guest Post by Denis McCarthy As a fairly die hard Dungeon Fantasy GM, it should not surprise anyone that I am a big fan of the kickstarter. My dungeon game pre-dates both Dungeon Fantasy and 4e, and I have updated it as the new rules were released. In it’s current incarnation I have been running it for over […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: What Makes Dungeon Fantasy Special, Part II
Guest Post by +Antoni Ten Monrós Continued from his earlier post, Toni continues talking about what makes Dungeon Fantasy special. GURPS Characters are DiverseGURPS is not constrained by classes or level. Dungeon Fantasy has templates, but the biggest difference between templates and actual classes is that classes give define your character’s abilities, while templates give you suggestions […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: What Makes Dungeon Fantasy Special, Part I
Guest Post by Antoni Ten Monros Steve Jackson Games is running the “Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game, Powered by GURPS” Kickstarter, and one of the questions you often get, is why? Why use GURPS to handle dungeon delving games, when the 800-pound gorilla of the industry, D&D, and it’s (retro)clones have that market niche well covered? What does […]
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Guest Post by +Travis Ellis When I started blogging three years ago, it didn’t take long for +Douglas Cole to comment that the games I was running had plots that could be ripped from television shows or movies. I run games that are very plot heavy. My games that focus more on why you do something and the […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Dungeon Fantasising I
Guest Post by Hal “Wavefunction” Batty I have a confession to make, I’ve never played or run a session of Dungeon Fantasy, and yet I own every single book and Pyramid article on the subject. That’s partly because I’m an obsessive GURPS hoarder, but I do have a particular fascination for Dungeon Fantasy. I’ve read each book […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Building Player Characters to the Concept
One thing that I pretty much always do in all games I run is building player characters “to the concept” vs. “on a point budget.” As you can imagine, this threw some of my players in my Aeon campaign for a loop. Matter of fact, one player said: “Wait, you want me to build this […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Illusion-Casting
“Are you ever not going to fall for that?”— Loki, The Avengers (2012) The Illusion advantage (GURPS Powers, p. 94) is probably one of those things that should have been in the Basic Set, but wasn’t. Illusion as Pieces Parts:So what does Illusion do and how does it do it? This requires a Concentrate maneuver to […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Powers Negation and Mimicry
My small circle of Aeon players (well, it’s not really small anymore – there’s like 20 of them) have been providing lots for me to chew on recently. It has put me in a position where I have to really look at the rules for character traits when trying to create new superpowers. One thing […]
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