Category: GAMING
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Skills in Running a City
To simplify my Civic Stat system, I’ll just give a basic competence score that works with the GURPS skill system.…
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Reviewing: GURPS Low-Tech Companion 1: Philosophers and Kings
Who needs this – Very Meticulous GMs for a Political/Diplomatic Campaign World Builders in the tradition of Harn, Westeros, and…
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Prep Work for Mass Combat Module
This is prep work that goes into a Mass Combat Module. Such a module should have a large Poster Sized…
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Centralized Bureaucracy in Medieval War Campaigns
Centralized Bureaucracy. This is the wonder of the Byzantine Throne to the Crusader Lords. The ability to Tax their subjects…
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Escalation when making Homebrew Rules
I was making my own homebrew rules for City Stats, designed particularly for Low Tech Mass Combat in GURPS and…
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Preparing for a First Crusades Campaign
Church history brings me back to my High School days, in my Opus Dei background. When I was young and…
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Qualities in People: Multiple Intelligence Stats affect judgement
these are the GURPS plug in of multiple-intelligence Stats I’ve been working for. I’ve yet to fill out the text.…
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Some GURPS Low-Tech Templates
Here are some GURPS low-tech templates. They are again another take of the RPG archetypes. I think a few posts…
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Human as a Baseline of a Game System, Why not?
My position is to use Human as a Baseline for game systems. There is some philosophical problems when “human” is…
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Wilderness vs Dungeon Encounter Map Generator part 1
Dungeons are more linear and have been adopted by how much it eases the GM’s job by boiling down options…
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[GURPS] Magic Problems II
A problem of the magic system that can be annoying is that, mastery of a more complex form of magic…
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[GURPS] Magic Problems
The magic rules in B237 under Magic Rituals are very odd when you compare them to Time Spent Rules in…
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GURPSing Theory of multiple intelligences
I’m trying to write up the intelligences as Talents using Theory of multiple intelligences Interestingly 15cp Talent has NO limits…
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Another Take on the Classics: GURPS Racial Templates
Another take on elves and dwarves. Dwarf 0 points Dwarves are hardy and strong folk. Their physical traits allow them…
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GURPS High Tech G3 vs M14
In GURPS high tech, the m14 is JUST as good as the FN fall and better than the G3 at…
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Realistic Encounters Duration
its been staring me right at the face the whole time. Human endurance works in a range band because it…
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GURPS Talents, Multiple Intelligence, and Geekdom
lately my readings about Emotional Intelligence got me thinking more about the Multiple Intelligence Theory (note the difference between Theory…
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Gaming, the Future of Education
It is easier and easier to cheat understanding with all the access of the internet. In one of the forums…
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1st to Sell RPGs China?
What RPG group will be the first to penetrate the China Market? I’m not saying small bits, but really a…
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Finished: GURPS 4E player handout
I got a strong urge to make a player hand out based on GURPS Lite 4e. What I did was…
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GURPS: What Knowledge of Philosophies Do
This is an oversimplification or bottom line to what each Philosophy discipline does. Philosophy Skills Default: IQ-6. This is the…
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Game Wealth Thread Argument spilling over to Economics
The thread of How to Handle Wealth became an economics discussion. What I like about the SJgames forums is how…
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OSRIC Game May 8, 2010
No Combat in the Game. My players expected some, but I’m happy they were not let down when I got…
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Physics of Fighting
I’m doing some exercises right now both physical and in math. Just testing out my understanding of physics and comparing…
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Test run for Random Lord Generator
Experimenting with Random Lord Generator. I used this dice roller to generate a list of d6 rolls. Following the step…
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Random Lord Generator and Empires before Alexander
The Random Lord Generator is meant to allow for the quick, simple, and detached creation of NPC lords as allies,…
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Mass Combat Low Tech Templates
Made a bunch of GURPS 4e Mass Combat Low Tech templates. They feature the basic Ally cost and some lenses.…
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Sacred Oaths
The humble Serf, as well as Husbands and Wives, to entrepreneurial Peasant and Yeomen, to loyal Retainers and Vassals, the…
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War Campaign musing
I’ve joined Arm Chair Generals forums to work through some of my campaign problems. One of them, I’m stuck on…
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Wold Building Research Mind Dump
I broke my own home brew rules. I’ve gone back to the basics and tried again. This time a little…