AEON C3-Team: Season 1, Session 4 – Regular Kids….Right? Dramatis Personae Benjamin B. Bailey (Played by Devin): A prodigy at earth science and an avid spelunker, Ben recently gained the power to reshape the same earth and stone that he studies. Naturally optimistic, he sees the best in those around him…even when he probably shouldn’t. […]
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A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 16 – Devil Went Down
A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 15 – Heard it through the Grapevine Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Powers Systems I’ve Used, Adapted, or Changed in My Campaigns
This month’s theme for the Brotherhood of Bloggers Who Blog Too Much is all about powers systems we’ve used in our games. What we used “out of the box”, what we’ve adapted to suit the campaign, and what we changed because we didn’t like it. Instead of giving you specifics for what I did dear […]
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A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 14 – Where Wolf? There Wolf! Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” Parker […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Deconstructing Size Modifier
Guest Post by Sean “Dr. Kromm” Punch First off, this one isn’t by me. It’s been a bit edited by me to fit in my blog, but is otherwise Sean’s words. This entire post stems from a conversation that was had in the GURPS Discord where Greyman asked: “Is there any way to make your […]
Continue readingA Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 14 – Where Wolf? There Wolf!
A Thousand Tiny Gods C-Team: Season 1, Session 13 – Let’s Get Physical Dramatis Personae Ekaterini Tsakalidis aka The Lady of Laundry (played by Chepe): Godling of Hygieia and Minerva. Face-changing clothes-horse with history as a Mob assassin and crime-scene cover-up artist. Tagline: “Never let them see you sweat.” Tercallus aka Callum “Cal” Parker (played […]
Continue readingBoil and Bubble: Ritual Path Magic Miscellany VI
Like my previous five installments, today’s post are compact little rules to help spice up your Ritual Path Magic game. Drain Tests Magic is treated normally except that an additional roll is required. Casters must now make a Will-based Path skill roll after the spell is cast with a -1 to rolls for every 20 […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – May 2022
Authorial Highlights GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves aka Marl Ankh-3 is in the hands of Steve Jackson Games. I finished the novel. I. Finished. The. Novel. It’s done. It’s with some alpha reviewers. I’m a terrible judge of my own work and I rely on others to tell me if something is good or […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Weirdness Magnet Variations
Weirdness Magnet is one of those traits that no GM really wants to see on a player character’s sheet. It offloads so much onto the GM who needs to make sure the character with it pays in game for the points it has given. Worse, it can steal spotlight time from other player characters. All that […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Rules I Don’t Use, Replace, or Revise
GURPS 4th edition is a very well put together system and one that I deeply enjoy using and writing for… but there are things about it that I rather don’t like and have either ignored or houseruled away. Now, as any of my players can tell you I really don’t have a lot of after-character creation […]
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