Category: GAMING
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GURPS Languages
Collaborative Gamer’s GURPS Language and Some thoughts Language should be treated like a Real World Superpower. We take it forgranted…
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Base Rates in TTRPGs, using Social Media to gather information and create better tools.
Base Rates are RARE and can be useful to overcome Planning Fallacy and Overconfidence Bias. So why not use the…
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Progress report 11C Random Character Generation Booklet
Here are some mental models and notes of my progress. I know if I keep needling in useless details my progress will…
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When Certainty Fails 40% of the time, and Luck has a greater factor to Success than skill.
“But the evidence is unequivocal — there is a great deal more luck than skill involved in the achievements of…
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GURPS updated Effort level March 2016
Let’s centralize the Rules of Fatigue and to change some In-game incentives and strategies. Rules Modifications Fatigue Levels and Penalties.…
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GURPS Random Character Creation Draft
Its going to take a lot of work to reference and fill this up. I want the Traits to be…
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Games and Dining in the Philippines
There has been a growth of Games and Dining places in the Philippines. Currently the are focused on Board Games,…
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Role-Playing Elements as Player Character Cards
Don’t you just hate it if you can’t keep track of your Character’s motives, limitations, nuances, biases, etc… Can I…
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Scoping GURPS Crusades Character Creation and Campaign Book 4E
This is how GURPS character creation crusades would look like if I had the permission/blessing to make it with just…
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Memory House Rule, based on Studies
Because of the emphasis of route Memorization in Ancient education I think Eidetic Memory, or it should be renamed Exceptional…
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2015 Houserules update on GURPS Wealth
I’ve been making a lot of Wealth rules. Social Economic relationship to Game Theory is always getting the right kind…
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GURPS Houserules: No more double pay, Households, Relationships
Houserules I had to make to organize my game better and keep with the setting and immersion. No Double Pay…
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Running GURPS like Fate, and a conundrum
So I’ve been running GURPS like Fate… this would tear the hair out of any GURPS GM. But then I…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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…