Category: GAMING
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Ally followers black boxing
Other than the characters personal wealth, he spends points on allies, which are his followers. Allies that are followers provide…
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Another way to deal with GURPS Dmg
Average All Damage. This is great with fire-arms. Just apply the 3.5 per d6. Do the same for melee weapons,…
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GURPS LITE update; Agents and Brokers
I might as well make it a fairly complete low tech booklet. So I’ve added templates for adventuring professions: Rogues…
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Power Creep and Universal systems
This can be addressed by the same approach. Approaching systems with a stronger game theory understanding allows one to understand…
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Quicker Play Ideas; Musing a different kind of podcast
So I hit a lot of major edits. Right now the LibreOffice is slowing down. I plan to revert them…
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Organized some text: GURPS Lite setting specific
I tried to reconstruct my GURPS lite that was specific to Low Tech. I’ve hit a milestone where I finished…
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Some Rules for Open RPG: System Effect of Difficulty and Modifiers
Here are some rules notes: Technical Rules regarding Penalties and Modifiers. Since ORPGS is a Target Number based system, there…
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Good Content vs Light Content
Getting organized, i realized that it takes me about 4 hours to accomplish a satisfactory piece. Especially when it contributes…
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Finished my First RPG Podcast; Trying out other History Podcasts
Finished Happy Jacks RPG Podcast se01ep01, I was honestly pessimistic, but it was a GURPS GM so I had to…
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Adventuring Utility vs Real World Utility
GURPS looks at relationships of point cost to Adventuring Utility, and not Real World Utility. If you are familiar with…
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Reflections on GMing after Simulations; Random Generating Flaws and Perks
There are a lot of ideas that come to me from converting my airsoft experience into GMing. One thing that…
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IMTU – No-Stealth – Open to Critique
Open for Critique Since I choose to remove detection stealth IMTU I wondered its effects. There is still “stealth” but it works…
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IMTU: Updating the Ops Cost per Ship.
Just an update of ship expenses, all commercial shipping found in ISW. Note that these are the costs per Dton, there is…
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IMTU Robots and the Economy
The side note in my mega-professional package list became this… Professions and Robots. In TL10 Non-volitional Robots with IQ11 and…
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Brokers Do Speculative Trade; Spacers Move Freight
I’ve divorced speculative trade and shipping. It kinda defeates the Terran Free Traders wording but it makes sounder business sense.…
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Some good links to share: generators
I get it Don Jon thanks to Jurgen for the Link. I was inspired by Evangelion 2.0, Underground Cities of…
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IMTU Financing
I don’t agree with the rules in ISW174 Financing. I know its a fiction and an adventure but its doesn’t make…
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IMTU Doctrines of the Imperium
I was doing a detailed review of Gurps Traveller (Ground Forces and Star Mercs) and I was disappointed with the…
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[Gurps Traveller] Why Old Relics?
Learning from our business finances and how the market works, there is still much to be said about the earning…
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Learning, Broken Down
I stumbled on this as I was doing my soldier research, in order for me to do an accounting of…
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GURPS traveller ship buildiing program
it was very hard to find this strangely. It seems that its was not connected to the regular gurps website.…
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GURPS 4E Low Tech ships by Icelander
Great Material worth saving from the GURPS forums. I’ve started storing useful stuff in PDF form via Print Option in…
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Skills part of Modern Day Tactics
Below is the outline of what composes the theoretical knowledge of Tactics. Tactics translates to organization, but more importantly dynamic…
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Accounting in my RPGs; A Traveller Businessplan; Researching on Soldiers
The only RPG that has Accounting in their game play is HARN, harn manor. Traveller can have accounting in its…
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What to write about, since LT is out
Plans for Game Writing. Low Tech being out and probing the forums as to any future releases regarding any material…
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GURPS Effort Levels. Real World Character Building?
There is really no aggregate system for Effort Levels in GURPS, if you want one, you would have to take…
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Low Tech Companion 3: Other Food Crops and Other Possibilities
In the lecture Origins of Civilization by Professor Scott MacEachern I learned that civilizations depended greatly in the time it…
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How fatiguing are Skirmishes? Non-Grid-Mini Skirmishes aided by Mass Combat
I play airsoft and I’m very much aware of how far I am from what is considered “fit for military…
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Some more Useful Biometrics, GURPS Increased Consumption Disadvantage
Looking at these numbers I think of GURPS increased consumption disadvantage at B136. since GURPs 3 meals defaults at the…
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[GURPS Mass Combat] “Real Soldiers Dig”
In one of the lectures I heard the term “Real Soldiers Dig”. The roman legionaires were said to build fort-camps…