Today is GURPSDay and the penultimate day before the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Kickstarter closes. So I figured I’ve give a nice crunchy powers on Power-Ups in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. The Five SensesAny delver can benefit from the following sensory power-ups. Ears Like a Bat 10, 22, 37, or 45 points for levels 1-4, additional levels […]
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GURPS101: Illusion-Casting
“Are you ever not going to fall for that?”— Loki, The Avengers (2012) The Illusion advantage (GURPS Powers, p. 94) is probably one of those things that should have been in the Basic Set, but wasn’t. Illusion as Pieces Parts:So what does Illusion do and how does it do it? This requires a Concentrate maneuver to […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Injury Resistance
In GURPS there are three forms of damage: basic damage, penetrating damage, and injury. Basic damage is the amount rolled on the dice for the attack, penetrating damage is the amount after applying Damage Resistance and other protections (e.g., Injury Tolerance), and injury is the total amount of hit points you suffered from that attack. […]
Continue readingGURPS101: 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 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 […]
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 readingBoil and Bubble: Power Reserve Magic
I had an interesting conversation with +GodBeastX the other day about how I might go about creating a magical system that would be good at creating a “combo-chain.” I totally misinterpreted what he said and the conversation devolved into other methodologies on how to do what he wanted. But it sparked an idea of my own. So […]
Continue readingGURPS101: All-Seeing Eyes
The Clairsentience advantage is one of the most underused and overrated of the “information-gathering” traits GURPS has to offer. This is most likely due to it’s high cost (50 points) and low range (starting range is a mere 10 yards). Clairsentience as Pieces Parts”So what does Clairsentience do and how does it do it? Requires you Concentrate for one […]
Continue readingGURPS101: Extra, Extra Effort
GURPS Powers introduces a new rule: Godlike Extra Effort (Powers, p. 161). This effectively allows you to enhance the effectiveness of your ability to drastic degrees and is only limited by your FP. GURPS Horror introduces rules for corruption (see Power Corrupts in Horror, pp. 146-148). Finally, GURPS Thaumatology introduces Threshold Magic (pp. 76-82), a form of magic […]
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