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GURPS101: Variation of Racial Memory
The following is a variation of Racial Memory meant for immortals and long-lived beings. It represents the fact that they’ve lived exceedingly long lives and may have learned, mastered, and forgotten skills in that time. Racial Memory see p. B78 Racial Memory (Long-Lived): You’ve been around for a while. Whenever you encounter a situation, go […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Blessed Options III
One thing that’s fairly common in fiction is the ability to be in the spirit world and the real world at the same time. GURPS lacks this ability in RAW, but I got you covered. Blessed (Dual Spiritual Nature) 15 or 45 points You exist simultaneously in the Spirit and Material Worlds. For those with a partial […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Deconstructing Whirlwind Attack
Recently while working on my wuxia fantasy campaign I got to thinking about attacking tons of opponents at once. Obviously, Whirlwind attack came to mind. But that ability doesn’t really match up to how you see it working in kung fu flicks. So I thought I’d do one of my deconstructions for it. (The actual […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Luck Variant – Storing Dice Rolls
the Basic Set Luck advantage allows you to roll the dice two additional times (for a total of three rolls for one task) and take the result you want. This allows for turning a failure or critical failure into a success or failure (or vice versa in some situations like if you were attacking an ally […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Chi Powers I
In Pyramid #3/105: Cinematic Magic I used the Sorcery system in a new way: to create a chi-based powers system for cinematic martial artists. Since then I’ve added to my listed powers. Here’s a few new ones from my Ten Thousand Jade Petals campaign: . . . if you’d like to read more, consider becoming a […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Designing New Imbuements
GURPS Power-Ups 1: Imbuements introduces a new system to turn your weapon into fire or make your weapon more capable of striking through armor. It’s been quite popular spawning multiple Pyramid articles (with at least two by Y.T.) and is used by many gamers. It’s a bit of a whole cloth system instead of one you can […]
Continue readingGURPS101: More Blessed Options II
A new ideas for the Blessed advantage: Blessed (Dominion) Varies You have claimed a location as your own. The maximum amount of space you can claim as your own depends on your IQ. Look up your IQ+7 in the Size column of the Size and Speed/Range Table (p. B550), read across to the Linear Measurement […]
Continue readingMelee Academy: More Psionic Martial Arts III
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 […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Sin-Eating
Sin-eating is a practice that goes back for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. In essence, a sin-eater takes all the wrong-doings and evil acts a person has committed into themselves. This is typically done after the subject dies, but before they die is possible as well. Sin-Eating can be found in many cultures and religions. […]
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