Author: justinaquino
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When PCs are Leaders and they deal with Kings, Armies, Bureaucracies and States
TL:DR – you still have to do important stuff yourself – you cannot delegate the most important jobs. This becomes…
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Wounding Rules
I don’t think I need to site any argument against HP systems, and the cognitive (and assumption) disconnect about it.…
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Terrain Evolution
Experimenting some more. These are Gifs of 128×128. They average 10kb. At 256×256 they average 30kb as gif and 90kb…
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Movement Rules Matter
One of my little peeves is the Movement rules. I always check the movement rules in various game systems because…
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Speculating what would evolve in the next 5 years
I used the Palm Treo extensively, it was my phone for 4 years and I was able to use a…
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Roll20 Optimized Combat Mapping
First you have to Roll20 Best Practices Gif is the Smallest, and has some lost detail. Comparing the same file from…
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Very Quick Roll20 Tokens for my Warring State Game.
Here is my non-professional work lolz. Hope you can find it useful. Some notes on the scale I use which…
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GM Preparation Formats – Ultra Lite
Game Preparation in GURPS is a time consuming process, but hopefully more and more GM notes will be available online…
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Warring States Pilot Episode
Characters Thanks to: Zhaoze Zhexue +Steven Donaldson Yi Qin +Filip Vukanovic “Da” Yuan +Dan Mungham Anguo Aiguo +Daniel Tallor Summary The party begins in…
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My Notes in Mapmaking with a Note 2 and 10.1
You can, hypothetically, do this in a Note 2 or 8. Of course with a note 2 its going to…
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Contemplation on Apple vs Samsung.
Apple’s New iPhone Pitch To Parents Is it possible that the decision makers in Samsung can cross the cultural barrier…
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Myth Dispelling – Does it matter when its all abstracted anyway?
There are many videos out that dispell myths in RPGs and bring a lot more detail and understanding into the…
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[Political, Opinion, Economic] Reaction to 2.9% decline in GDP
Ouch. The news is bad, and sadly its something that can be avoided if not for the inherent “gamable” factors…
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Dwarven Loadouts, Encounters, and Mass Combat Encounter
My dwarves are a bit shorter, but wider in proportions compared to humans. So they even out a bit but…
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GURPS Magic Notes: Low Tech Long Distance Comm
This is basically looking at the Long Distance Communication Options found in GURPS Magic. Avian Messengers Animal Spells create the…
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Warring States Map and how I did it with a Note 10.1
The (hypothetical) Huang-Jin Valley for the Warring States game. Sorry I have to really fudge some details lost in the…
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Female Armor Notes; Sword Sisters Dilemma
Female armor choices suck. after this video I had to rethink a lot of female armor even the ones found…
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GURPS Basic Set Load-Outs
If you just began with the GURPS Basic Set and you want to just build a game around just that…
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Automation is not the Bogeyman, its the Climate
What Amazon has done to buying and selling online is a marvel of Automation. It is automation that makes what…
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Reflection of my Gaming Tastes
The way I GM reflects a lot about how I solve or face problems. Which can be good and bad.…
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Pole Arm Tokens for Roll20
These end up very large and eats up a lot of space. But if you want to show the 2-3…
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GURPS Magic Notes 02: Basic Set Spells and Options Strategy Guide
Lets see what what best practices can we come up with just the options in the Basic Set. The idea…
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GURPS Magic Notes 11: Changing the Spell Skill Threshold
With an Open ended spell skill level, GURPS Spells should not be bench marked against skills. When skills have so…
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GURPS Low Tech Notes: Galleys, Naval Encounters,
Galleys Galleys are long narrow oared boats, sometimes with sails. They were used from BCE to the 1500CE. They were…
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GURPS Demo – Behind the GM’s Screen
So on Friday Night EST at around 7pm, I’m running a GURPS Demo. No story, just a bunch of Pregens…
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Sins of the Crusade E05, A Petty War
Thanks to +Il Pella , +Thunder Clonch , and +Wilton Heath for playing! We finished the battle where we left off. I kept rolling 15-16 in…
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GURPS Notes 12: Power Inflation, Why Doctrine
GURPS is fine in a realistic game. All the realistic advantages are fairly priced, no need to apply any modification.…
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GURPS Mass Combat Notes: Logistics and Lances
Logistics have been separated in the cost of forces in GURPS mass combat. Since MC already simplified much of the…
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Roll20 Macros for GURPS
Because the character sheets will be available eventually. You can find the Demo Campaign here. Thanks to +James Austin for teaching me…
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Sins of the Crusades Episode 4.5 – Intrigues
In Episode 4.0 Tertius and Xeno were part of a “War Game” where they battled season vets and manage to…