This article was something rather interesting to write – it came from a kernel of an idea from my Aeon supers campaign: how do powers and the law interact? There is a tiny section in GURPS Basic Set about Spell Legality – but that’s it. So I got to thinking, how could I expand it? […]
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GURPS101: 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 […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Spoiled and Rurnt
So I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and realistically – which After the End is not – batteries, ammo, etc. would have spoiled a long while back. Batteries will likely last twenty years at most and that’s being optimistic. Gunpowder eventually does go bad. MREs eventually go bad. Everything eventually becomes spoiled or […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker: Climbing Lines and Auto-Grapnels
I’ve been kind of chewing on this one for a while – it originally came up in a Dungeon Fantasy game I was in and I came up with an imbuement to make it work (which is fine), but I got to thinking: How does Climbing Line work? Sure, I could just say “It works!” but […]
Continue readingGURSP101: Long-Term Fatigue and Extra Effort
I’ve talked about the idea of Long-Term Fatigue before – it’s a damn interesting concept. It lets you do things with Fatigue Points that would otherwise be difficult to do (or at least hard to track) in other ways. So what else could you do with Long-Term Fatigue? An idea that struck me the other […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Someone Always Has to be the Nazis
Over on Facebook there was a thread talking about being the bad guy and eventually someone chimed in “Someone Always Has to be the Nazis.” Think about that for a moment. Someone always has to be the Nazis. That’s…pretty damn profound if you think about it – at least for storytelling and game design. Let’s […]
Continue readingAeon A-Team S00E01 – New Age Breakfast Club
Dramatis PersonaeAysella Shinjitai aka Marionette (played by +Ann LS): a telekinetic who can detect Kyberian Energy, and boost or dampen other metahuman powers.Hobs Ini-Herit aka The Alchemist (played by +Christian Gelacio): a straight-up matter controller with super-strength and devastating good looks.Roth Reynard aka Red Zone (played by +Troy Loy): a super-genius with flame powers and a fear of heights.Samuel Donick aka […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Telepathy Powers for Psionic Powers I
GURPS Psionic Powers is one of the better worked examples for a powers-framework in GURPS 4th edition. The only real issue (and it’s the same issue that all worked frameworks have) is that there are just never enough powers… …if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a patron! Note: the link to the actual content […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Alternate Alternate Form Rules
+Emily Smirle aka Bruno is perhaps one of my favorite GURPS people (well, people in general)of all time. She’s smart, quick, and has an ability to look at a situation within the rulesand say “This is kind of broken” and then come up with a fix. In my Aeon campaign Emily isplaying “the Rat Queen” a freaky […]
Continue readingGURPS101: After the End – Snowpocalypse
GURPS After the End 2: The New World talks about a cold climate in the new world but really only reiterates some information from Basic Set: Campaigns about snow. Where’s the acid snow? Where’s the Day After Tomorrow-equse storms so cold that they freeze you when you are exposed to them? Well, the author most likely had a […]
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