GURPS Psionic Powers offers a way to create psychic characters using a powers framework. GURPS Martial Arts codifies fighting styles in an easy to use block. In Pyramid #3/69: Psionics II I created the first fusion of these two books with “Mind and Body”. Here is another martial arts style that never made it to […]
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Melee Academy: More Psionic Martial Arts I
GURPS Psionic Powers offers a way to create psychic characters using a powers framework. GURPS Martial Arts codifies fighting styles in an easy to use block. In Pyramid #3/69: Psionics II I created the first fusion of these two books with “Mind and Body”. Here is a martial arts style that never made it to […]
Continue readingMelee Academy: A Decisive Blow
+Douglas Cole is talking about an alternate way to perform the Evaluate maneuver and I got to thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know) “Why isn’t their a maneuver to sacrifice skill for damage?” We have one for making it hard to avoid an attack, but not one to increase its potency? There is always All-Out Attack […]
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GURPS Martial Arts is often thought of as the “fourth” Core Book (after the Basic Set and GURPS Powers) and for good reason – it expands the rules in several profound ways. One of those ways was the introduction of “styles” an abstraction for how various martial arts in the real world can be translated […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Dungeon Fantasy Sharpshooter Power-Ups
Guest Post by +Hal Batty aka Wavefunction A while back, while constructing some styles, I came up with a few different techniques for crossbow users, so after seeing Merlin’s super cool Sharpshooter template, found here, I had no choice but to write some power-ups for it. Sharpshooter Power-UpsSharpshooter power-ups focus on precision and power. Arm ST (Both […]
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Guest Post by Merlin Avery (check out his blog here!) The crossbow is quite a deadly weapon that appears in a great many fantasy works. Dungeon Fantasy leaves few templates that incorporate heavy use of the crossbow. The sharpshooter not only makes heavy use of the crossbow, it is the focus of the template. Sharpshooter […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Dungeon Fantasy Styles – Zodiac Styles
(Note: This was inspired by my work, but not written by me. The author would be +Hal Battywho graciously offered it to me to use however I like. Thank you again, Hal.) “Eastern Adventures” in Pyramid #3/89: Alternate Dungeons II has a box called “Martial-ArtsStyles and Power-Ups” that alludes to the possibility of a simplified […]
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