Author: justinaquino
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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…
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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…