“Ewan: Love is a many splendored thing, Love lifts us up where we belong, All you need is love!Nicole: Please, don’t start that again.” – Elephant Love Medley, Moulin Rouge (2001) “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it […]
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Designer’s Notes: Necro-Psi
I’ve done a lot of work creating new powers for GURPS Psionic Powers one of my biggest regrets was not getting credit on that book (I playtested it – but got no credit). I think my love for the system PK put together as much as my regret in not earning that credit has driven me […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Aeon Handouts I
So one of the things that I enjoy doing as a GM is creating handouts. Now, before the Digital Age this involved painstakingly hand drawn creations (possibly “aged” with coffee or tea) and it often consumed my time as much as actually planning the game did. Well, these days you can create even more fantastic […]
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes: The Monstrous Monstroum
Being one of those who was in on the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game was a huge honor – the system itself is rather amazing and Sean Punch did a wonderful job streamlining GURPS into this lean, mean, gaming machine. When I was asked to contribute to Welcome to Dungeon Fantasy I knew what I wanted to do immediately: […]
Continue readingGamemaster’s Guidepost: Dealing With Player Turnover
One of the unavoidable truths of running a campaign for any length of time is player turnover. It happens. People have to live their life and sometimes that means they have to be responsible and say “No more games today/for a while/etc.” I got to thinking about this as it concerns me since I lost […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Aeon Team Rosters – Part V
As in the previous posts (see here, here, here, and here) I’m talking about my Aeon campaign and the various teams within it. State of the V-TeamNewly assembled and ready to kick butt, the V-Team consist of characters from a previous (abaonded) supers campaign. A lot of Aeon is built from that world (and one other) and […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Aeon Team Rosters – Part IV
As in the previous posts (see here, here, and here) I’m talking about my Aeon campaign and the various teams within it. State of the C-TeamC-Team has been a bit bumpy. Loss of PK (who was the team lead) and the speeding up of the timeline for them caused a LOT of dissonance. I also […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Aeon Team Rosters – Part III
The current ongoings of my Aeon teams. But first, some notes for the overview of all teams. The State of the Aeon Campaign I finished up part of the technology file for Aeon itself. It clocked in at around 10k worth of words. Sigh. I don’t miss this part of speculative settings. At all. I took a […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: GURPS Discord
Happy GURPSday! So +Mook Wilson has talked about GURPS Discord on his blog and now I have to do the same. The unofficial GURPS Discord Channel is incredibly useful. There are dozens of users now and I’m not afraid to say I’m one of them. I signed onto the server as soon as Mook put up the link […]
Continue readingDesigner’s Notes: Mask of Humanity
“The Mask of Humanity” began as “Parting the Veil.” It spent almost 4 years on my harddrive (longer than any other “finished and submitted” but unpublished articles I currently have) collecting dust. I’ve hinted at its existence on the forums dozens of times since then. It contains lots of little gems people asked for many […]
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