GURPS Magic Notes 15: Earth Spells
I was surprised by the applications of Earth Magic. What I love about it is that its really just the application of science and geometry and you’ve got a lot…
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War Beneath Haven S02 E11 – the Mountain, end of Season 02
Season 1: 8 episodes May 17 to November Season 2: 11 episodes Feb to April 26 Summary The party began the adventure in the mountain, having crashed their vehicle in…
Read more →HT and Simplified Running
Health GURPS Stat the health stat bugs me because fitness and conditions are separate. Why can’t it be just in one stat? If I get healthier all these things improve,…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 15: Ritual Magic Basics and High Magery Game
Ritual Magic Basics Ritual Magic under B242 and GURPS Magic p.200. Basically instead of every spell a skill, you have a core skill minus prerequisite counts, this core skill is…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade S01 E03 – Taranto
Thanks to +Wilton Heath – Cato Vorenus an Honest Naepolitan Merchant and client of House Milessenos.+Il Pella – Xenophon Papagiannopolous, Captain of the Zardakos+Thunder Clonch – Teritus Maxentius, Guardsman of the House Milessenos…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 03: Basic Set System Mechanics Review
Bringing down the information barriers, and helping you get to play a mage or allow supernatural elements in the game. I’m particularly trying to work towards games with strategic and…
Read more →Gurps talents, combat talents.
As part of the Cult of stat normalization I found talents to be indispensable and it models so many things so well. I interchange talent with Aptitude, we may be…
Read more →War Beneath Heaven S02 E10 – The End has Arrived
Speedy is in the infirmary. Sam was taking care of him. Jeni visits him and this happens while the team was fighting the dragon. Sam notices something odd about Merle…
Read more →Interesting Notes on GURPS Skilll and then some.
What I’ve noticed is that some skills can be bundled as part of a broader skill – exam Police Work is a Optional Specialty of Law. In fact this is…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 17: Spirits
Spirits are useful tools used by mages. The basic Spirit trait you see below can be slapped on a lot of various useful spirit lenses (also below) and is meant…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade E02 – the Sin of Weakness
Thanks to +Wilton Heath – Cato Vorenus an Honest Naepolitan Merchant and client of House Milessenos. +Il Pella – Xenophon Papagiannopolous, Captain of the Zardakos +Thunder Clonch – Teritus Maxentius, Guardsman of the…
Read more →Patron, Duty, and Frequency of Apperance
Typically people work for a Patron Entity, especially for low tech. The relationship may vary, but it a pretty certain thing in such an age and era. Patrons and Duties…
Read more →The War Beneath Heaven S02 E09 – Falling from Grace
Thanks to +Kalalification Playing Jack Striker +Panic Slark Playing Archie Griffith +Lee Fairweather Playing Sam Morpheus +Ken Kthulhu Playing Fish +Ffej Lednam Playing Eeshu This happens a few days before the explosion on the…
Read more →Things to Look forward Too
Because of the Games I’m running both Modern and Historical here are the projects that are just going through last edits and where I have to step away a bit…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Pilot
Some Background, the reason I chose 1092 is because if there is anything going to be done that will alter the course of history of the crusades its going to…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Art
cramming some art for the Campaign. No pressure, its just been 5 years in the making.
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 18: Zombies
“The Far East Triad lets everyone know they are into human trafficking, but what they really specialize in is what happens with expired goods” – Killian Tarmikos Basically magical automations.…
Read more →GURPS City Stats notes: Total Revenue for Low Tech
Some Low Tech prep Notes. TL:DR low tech economics is very unfair, and learning it makes me appreciate the present and look out for mistakes that repeat the past. Military…
Read more →War Beneath Heaven S02 E08
We began with some Office Drama. Merle has a falling out with Thomas. Cheng Dao has been riding the HSS hard and Thomas burned out left Speedy in charge. First…
Read more →Mass Combat Templates with load Outs
Making a bunch of templates for this long project I had for years. Basically its GURPS Low Tech Lite, for my own uses. So basically have a GURPS lite with…
Read more →Networking in the Gamer Mindset Part II
Contact Ally Freq-6 Depending on how the GM arbitrates Freq-6 MOST contacts in the real world fall into this category! Imagine that contact you can talk to once a month…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 19: Ghouls
Haven has undead, and its constantly growing population (as it shelters african refugees and lacking of reproductive health care, almost %3 population growth) makes it one of the best places…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 10: Energy Reserve and Extra Fatigue; Modular Abilities and Magery
Edit: I just got Powers Energy Reserve is in GURPS Powers p.119. Its basically build in from Fatigue Points. I first heard about this in the forums. If you don’t…
Read more →War Beneath Heaven S02 E07: Lost Leader
Cheng Dao and HSS decide it is best he represents HSS and Purchase the Title for Prince of the Heights. The cost would be brokered by Dylan Baker of the…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes: Alter Visage, Body and Voice
Because Alter Visage, Body and Voice have a duration of 1 hour, a Body Specialist Adept with a Body Control-27 [16] (normal mana through a special familiar granting Normal Mana…
Read more →GURPS Wealth and Status, notes 2
Continuing from a january 2010 article I’ve always puzzled wealth, status, economics and the like. There are many things I would add to this: The Elite Granted Equipment The soldiers…
Read more →War Beneath Heaven S02 E06 – Under the Heights
Quick Summary The damage done by the crew in order to fight the magical swarms had its cost. It was worth a ton of lost business and security as it…
Read more →GURPS SpaceShips: Getting into a TL9 Doctrine
So it can’t go interstellar, and I admit it was painful at first to conceptualize a doctrine without reactionless drives BUT Iearned to love it after some inspiration… and it…
Read more →GURPS Templates notes: Write Up instead of Stats
Instead of the just the stats, why not just create a Archetype based on his or her SOP or Modus Operandi. Instead of stats, a series of MOs of various…
Read more →Why Networking is used explained in a Gamer mindset.
Networks are the easier way of doing business IMO, but that’s not the impression that actually influence character builds. Sun Tzu’s says avoid a test of prowess (avoid drawing the…
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