Casting Lots – Part I – Game Session 3

Angelique Ashur, Jonathan Valerius Baksheesh, Maynard “Alex” Hamilton, & Sergei Romanova June, 18th, 2001, 3:00 pm 41 Hours Since Kidnapping 510 South Bolingbrook Dr., Bolingbrook, IL 60440 The PCs finish a fine meal of beer-battered French fries, micro-brewed ales, and chicken from the Hole in the Wall diner while they figure out there next move. […]

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Boil and Bubble: Diablorising Ritual Path Magic – The Necromancer – Part I

Before I write anything else, let me first say that recreating spellcasting classes from the Diablo series is probably best down as powers (in fact, I’d probably use PK’s Sorcerous Empowerment article). That said, ritual path magic can work quite well too! A few quick notes. First, in the Diabloverse, it’s probably wise to put […]

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Casting Lots – Part I – Game Session 2

Angelique Ashur, Jonathan Valerius Baksheesh, & Sergei Romanova June, 18th, 2001, 11:30 am 36.5 Hours Since Kidnapping 5841 S Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL ‎60637 Angelique has Rebecca taken to the University of Chicago Hospitals (her old place of employment before becoming part of Victor’s Sleep Disorders Institute Staff) to be examined. She has both Jonathan […]

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Triple Threat: Jiangshi

The so-called “hopping corpse” of Chinese legend, it has near-glowing green-white hair, long fingernails, and glowing green eyes. In the day it sleeps in a coffin or hides in a dark place like a cave, attic, basement, etc. At night it hunts its territory finding human beings whose “chi” it devours. For Any Game… ST: […]

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Gamemaster’s Guidepost: How Tough Is It?

Because GURPS is a point-buy system, figuring out what constitutes as a “tough” opponent can be difficult. Not only difficult, it can be downright arcane. There are situations where a 500-point character can have barely any impact on a combat (lots of social and mental advantages), and a 100-pointer absolutely dominates it (purely combat-oriented advantages). […]

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Triple Threat: Tako-Oni

A huge squid monster from the depths of the ocean. It’s big. It’s squishy. And it wants revenge for all that calamari you ate. If it were in the Atlantic, they’d call it a Kraken… For Any Game…ST: 60             HP: 60            Speed: 6.00DX: 12            Will: 14           Move: 4 (Water Move 10/20)IQ: 6 […]

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The Night-Dimmed Day – Part III – Game Session 2

July 3rd 2000, Monday 10:30 pm 5200 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL Intercepting a distress call from the Chicago Fire Department about “living fire” the Dead Men make off towards the Blackwood Apartments in Colt’s truck to help. Arriving surprisingly fast they are greeted by a full structure fire with little “gobs” of flame about […]

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