Author: justinaquino
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Thread Titles
Title threads with exactly the (boiled down) question or idea. No need to declare newb-ness or any other matter. Consider…
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Having Mundane Combat Skills
Realistic Ancient Soldiering was basically getting a bunch of people to one place in the best condition possible to fight.…
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House Baldwin: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
I’ve been reading up on the kingdom of Jerusalem. In the Sins of the Crusades, the altered history made for…
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On Wealth and Horses
Medieval horse Types and Traits is an awesome contribution by Icelander. Especially since Horses would be more central realistic/gritty games.…
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Accounting Ratios and Characters.
I learned this “trick” in accounting. Ratios are used to measure, abstractly, an entity’s performance. You can do the same…
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Accounting Ratios and Characters.
In financial accounting I learned to use ratios to infer what happening in an accounting statement. Point based system characters…
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Mutated to a Meta-Gaming thread
The same thread I’m talking about now mutated into a Meta-Gaming thread. I didn’t see that coming. Wonder if I…
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What you need, what you want
gaming preferences. GURPS can have a TON of detail. Here is a thread that discusses the two opposing views: Detail…
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Patrons, Demographics, and Realism
Patrons of “Ye olden times” had to provide assets for their retainers. Beginning with adequate capital of one’s own earning…
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GURPS Forum
Unlike the more visible RPG blogging Community at large, the GURPS community is relatively a quite one having most of…
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Here is Jeds Character, some questions
Why is she unmarried? Women are typically forced to marry by society, an admirer or her relatives. Some reason why…
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Not reading other peoples Posts
In this thread about history and game skill resolution, the question asked is can there be a wrong interpretation and…
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Nerd On! Lances and Physics
I’m a fan of “Nerd On”! Its like an argument you would have in “Big Bang Theory” by its arcane…
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How to Bribe, a real world skill games can teach
Its really just meant for games, but in some countries corruption is a way of life. GM’s usually quickly factor…
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GM think Tank with Google Wave
Playing around Google Wave the ideas that first get to me is how It can be used to improve my…
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Your Own Hell , Ravenloft your Setting.
Looking at my old Ravenloft books and how much I’ve learned about history over the years, my definition of Tragedy…
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The different type of Gamer Geek
I just started watching Big Bang Theory. Of course, they had to make the Nerds-Geeks there a bit more cartoonish…
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Where is the place of the Bow in a Realistic GURPS Game.
In realistic conditions, Bows are still very advantageous despite their reduced comparative effectiveness to fantasy ranged combat. The opportunity expense…
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Background Skills for more Realistic Games.
Characters have some cultural background skills that make them who they are. Typically almost every character have the skills: Theology,…
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Inspired by Google Wave
Finally got my google wave account. There are only 8 invites, and I’ve already used up 4. planning to give…
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Someone Planning to Run a Modern RPG Scenario?
A Warlords Gambit – the Power Vacuum in the Wake of the massacre will change the status quo. Territories are…
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They liked it. – Free thinking RPG
They liked it, they appear very excited (I can replay the videos and try to read the body language).Anyway, it…
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Freethinking Game is a Go
Update, my game is pushing through as of the confirmations received as of now. Hopefully, the Murphies will be stuff…
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+1 Bonus to GMing
My reply in defendse of GURPS Mysteries. This book grants you GMing +1 regardless of the system you run. A…
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Awesome Visuals for your Medieval Game
I found this accidentally found these very mood inspiring visuals of a village in Ukraine. Goes great with mood enhancing…
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Alesandro Liu’wei’lin, sample character
Another character for the game. Will try to come up with one more tonight. Alesandro here is shrewd businessman and…
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Another discussion between IQ in games vs the Real World
Another IQ thread in GURPS. Why can’t success be a measure of IQ? Quite simply, people want to be smarter…
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Diego Bautista, sample character
This is a sample character for my mahadlika game for the Saturday the 21st. Giving Ideas for my players and…
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Screw the E-reader war, Get a Tablet PC for your Tech Savy GM
Some Useful Update, I’ve been spending a few days researching E-readers and getting their Specs down for work research. While…
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Mount&Blade WARBAND: Inspiring my Games
I only began checking back when war band is supposed to be released because I’m supposed to present a game…