Author: justinaquino
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Sins of the Crusade Episode 01, Season 02
Thanks to+Il Pella, +Wilton Heath, +Mike Dulay, +Thunder Clonch, +Matthew Cruz, and +Alais Legrand The week the party sworn themselves to Bohemmon, it feels a…
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DIY Sports Camera Mod for the NOTE 2
Is that a Note 2 on your head or your just happy to see me? Cons: Heavier than a Sports…
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Cylcing of Attention, Reflection between fractions of a Second.
Short Bursts vs Long bursts is more about how much “attention” and “tunneling” we allow ourselves in a situation. My…
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Jaded with Journalism
Strangely the people who argue against the 40:60 doesnt seem to work in BPO area or Law (so far in…
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Nylon Webbing, Fabric, and Polyester
After working with my mom on my weight vest and researching on nylon fabric its like all the vests I…
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Aggressive Rhythm, Concentrated Aim, and Fatigue Rhythm Disruption
Aggressive Rhythm is what I am calling the conditioning to Attack when: the defender takes the action to defend, an…
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The Two Me’s, Lessons, Weighted Vests
Last game was an unusual experience, because I was hitting at reacting from lessons from the other game while not…
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Gaming and Visualization
There is a study about Visualization and Learning [1] and Mindfulness Meditation [2] that seems to a pretty good mental tool for…
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[Open RPG notes] Narrative Fact , Yes-And, and Yes-But
Basically some definitions. I broke down Player Agency into some conceptual units – Fact, Yes-And, Yes-but, Gambit/Gamble. It is in…
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Tactical Boots Research
One of the hardest to find: 8″ high (for ankle support, because this is the small bones and the first…
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Sometimes I talk about Philosophy – Impossible Standard Argument, New Memetic Weapons
In a previous argument, someone used on me the Impossible Standard Argument – or what is basically “Moving Goal Posts”…
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Changing the Safety Game
Our safety standards are very close to international standards, what is different is enforcement. So if you are at least…
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Excellent News from CTO R&D
I just came from the plant an saw our machine shop. Currently researching how much it costs to machine the…
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Experimental Game Hypothesis – Mental Health Care
Gin no Saji aka Silver Spoon gave me an idea of how Cognitive Dissonance can be healthy. The anime is…
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Fallacies and Biases: Attacking the Source and not the Argument.
My brother loves DnD 4e, and I’ve not run as much games in 4e as he has. So I’ll take…
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Selective Humanization
Humanization and Dehumanization is something we exercise a lot in RPGs. We humanize our characters, our NPCs, and Allies, and…
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More Player Agency. Incentive Points.
I’m a fan of narrative games – house of the blooded is the only I’ve played but I’ve followed +Tobie…
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Running with a Weighted Vest
Basically it is the Weight I lost, 10lbs, is back on. It was stressful on the knees because of the…
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Community Building Focus Transition.
I will be changing content direction slowly. I have a ton of old posts and material, which I will evolve…
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Anygame System – Gamer Guide to Small Wars Manual part 1
Any Game System or GM will benefit from this Free Public Domain Book! It will highlight Tasks any Adventure (aka…
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Simple Things
Seriously considering Reducing the amount of clutter and equipment I have. Considering going the M4 Route, because I need it…
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Weight of a Roll or Opportunity in a Game
Edited for Clarity: Here is a funny thing about most of the systems I’ve read, no one gives guidelines as…
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Super Dad
Andrew Wiley, as my Wife and I know him as Superdad. Basically he is the working dad (working parents) who…
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Dispelling Myths: GURPS is too rules heavy
There is only one way to dispel the myth and its to actually count the pages (plus notes on average…
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Entrepreneurship of Adventuring, GMing Flowchart
Some Family History – my father came from a Roast Pig and a grocery store business (Lechon is common in all spanish…
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Rules in Review – HT and Fatigue Rules
In GURPS B349, you find the Physical Tasks rules. Many of the rules deal with performance, but not the effects…
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Low Tech Education Notes – The Cost of Education
I don’t really enforce these rules and details, that would be too much of a buzz kill for a game.…
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GURPS Combat Notes 1: Basics of Maneuvers, Attack, Defense, Injury, and Grappling
Disclaimer. This is a rather simple flow chart. Can you imagine if I added the critical hit, miss, and defense…
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Learning Stuff Categorically
Learning stuff category helps for me. Like the confusing thing for me about Knockdown and Stunning checks. Knock down and…
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GURPS Rules that can adhere to the Core System
The core system in GURPS is 3d6 roll below a score, which has modifiers. I sometimes wondered why not just…