A random stray thought while sleep-deprived over on my private Discord server for my gaming group had me asking if you could reverse the order of initiative in GURPS and what it would ultimately mean. This led to a couple of other thoughts and I’ve just kind of tossed them all down here. Do note that […]
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Gamemaster’s Guidepost: How Much Lore Is Hidden?
When building a campaign setting or starting a new campaign one of the things that you must decide as a GM is what skills are important, what skills exist, and what skills don’t exist. For campaigns with magic, psionics, and other “paranormal powers” one of the key jobs a GM has is to decide what […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Preparation Required New Modifiers
A real quick “micro-rules” post on Preparation Required from stuff I had in one of my own campaigns. Intermediate Levels of Preparation RequiredIf we play with the values we can interpolate different required times with a given value for each one: Preparation Required, 5 seconds (-5%) Preparation Required, 30 seconds (-10%) Preparation Required, 1 minute […]
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes – Born to Be Wild
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the GURPS Monster Hunters series. I was one of the first to playtest it before it came out and I’ve been one of the biggest contributors to the series so far. What can I say, Monster Hunters scratches all the right itches for me. “Born to Be Wild” came […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Accessibility Modifiers For Number of Skills
Just a quick post on the number of skills in GURPS by their controlling attributes and then computed into Accessibility modifiers for advantages (GURPS Powers, p. 99). What can you use it for? No idea, but is probably will be useful at some point. This intentionally excludes required specialities for skills as that may fluctuate depending […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – August 2017
Here’s the highlights for me from August 2017. Authorial Highlights I had to backburner projects for Combat and Hot Spots and Locations for another article I needed to work on right now. I shifted an article from one theme to another which freed up space in my Thaumatology queue for something that S. A. Fisher […]
Continue readingGURPS101: FP Cost Limited by Margin
So one of my players and I got to talking about how you might design an ability where the FP cost were variable depending on how well you rolled to activate it. This got me to thinking – how the heck could I do something like this? I eventually came up with a conclusion that wasn’t […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: My Rules For Spending Points
Some people let you spend willy nilly. Some (like myself) will only let you spend points at certain times. Some are point nazis (“Ve must spenct zee hours and zee points! SCHNELL”). However you you do them is all gravy with me. But this is how I do it for pretty much every single game […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Attribute Synergies
Another of my “micro-rules” this time expanding on the idea of Complementary Rolls (GURPS Action 2: Exploits, p. 5; GURPS: Social Engineering, p. 21, 31, 48), but using attributes instead. How It WorksAttribute synergy uses the same rules as complementary skills rolls – make a roll and give a +1 to another roll if you succeed, -1 […]
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes: Deathtraps
My second Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Pyramid article is out and it’s a bit of a follow-up to my book Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game: Traps. I did my best to keep most of the traps in the book to be somewhat fair. I didn’t even both with the article. It was a roster of deathtraps. That was […]
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