Month: May 2010
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“What is an RPG?” Exercise
Explaining “What is an RPG?” in the shortest and most efficient way speaks a lot about who the gamer is…
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Finished: GURPS 4E player handout
I got a strong urge to make a player hand out based on GURPS Lite 4e. What I did was…
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GURPS: What Knowledge of Philosophies Do
This is an oversimplification or bottom line to what each Philosophy discipline does. Philosophy Skills Default: IQ-6. This is the…
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Experience is WORK!
Its not the killing and Not the treasure that give people experience. Someone doesn’t just transform incrementally by every creature…
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Your Alternate Description – Steve Jackson Games Forums
Your Alternate Description – Steve Jackson Games Forums: I wish I can find more people into Gaming Kaizen or Philosophy.…
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How much magic would I tolerate?
When I do allow magic, only allow the subtle communications, empathy, and mind spells (GURPS). Basically spells that do not…
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RPG Kaizen: Game Definitions and Continuous Learning
Old school Role-playing is asking a lot of questions and critical thinking. Its not really the “game systems” but the…
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Icelander's: A Private War On Narcoterrorism
Helpful information about “Tactical Shooting: A New World: A Private War On Narcoterrorism – Steve Jackson Games Forums by Icelander”.…
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Game Design: Objectivity of Skills and Ability
Are skills Objectively or Relatively Assessed. The real world works on a mix of both relative and objective standards. We…
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Evolving Game Systems and Chinese Historical Game
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes As a Science…
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Game Wealth Thread Argument spilling over to Economics
The thread of How to Handle Wealth became an economics discussion. What I like about the SJgames forums is how…
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Economics in my GMing: How I handle wealth
I was lurking in the Sjgames forums when I cam by this interesting question. How do you handle wealth increase.…
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Experiment in Play tools
Converting all options and aspects of a Character aspects into cards? Its been done way before, but I’m thinking of…
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[Any Systems] Defense: Realistic Reflections
Assumptions on Shields. If two fighters are equal, and they have 50% chance of hitting each other in a given…
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OSRIC Game May 8, 2010
No Combat in the Game. My players expected some, but I’m happy they were not let down when I got…
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(Homebrew) OSRIC pregens
Made some homebrew tweaked OSRIC pregens that Fit CCG Sleeves. I plan to cut the printoutsand place them with my…
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Imagination Exercise: “Light” Armors
In this thread, Dan Howard dispels the gaming Myth about the flexibility of armor (apart from mail). In gaming “Light…
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Internal Consistency Fun Rant
I was researching on shields, and find it quite unusual that something people actively use to cover up more than…
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Game Experiment: Unknown Rules
What If I played DnD on the surface but all the mechanics used was something else. Players select Scale, Shield,…
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OSRIC game planned next week
I was at my bi-monthly Freethinkers meeting and its no surprise to find some of the members being the last…
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Is Being a Wet Blanket a Good thing?
I can’t help being a wet blanket. I would like to think that I’ve have trained myself not to be…