The War Beneath Heaven S02 E05 Backstory and Primer
Backstory Thomas was looking out from the new HSS safehouse. A recent but temporary command center, in the edge of the Heights overlooking both Cheng’ Territories and a view of…
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GURPS Magic Notes 21: Swarm Familiar
Swarms are pretty cool, and freaking scary. A bug, a small snake, or a small bird is not much of a threat, but a swarm of them is freaking scary.…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 20: Darkness Aspect and Shadow Path Mage
Playing around with Darkness Aspect Mage and Shadow Magic. Again lets begin with some basics. Reading the definition of Darkness Aspect Mage (B67), it seems the mage can only cast…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 08: Doctrine 03 – Information Gathering
Lets have a quick review of some key concepts. Let’s Review Magery (B66) is a Binary Answer: Magical or Non-Magical. Since there is no Extra-Perception Stimuli I’m actually puzzled how…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 07: Doctrine 02 – Basic Magical Defense is to Know a Mage
More Extensive Countermeasures and their Costs. These packages are useful for GMs to detail how extensive the protections a Character may have. First is to get Mage Man-power at the…
Read more →The War Beneath Heaven S02 E04 reboot Summary
The team basically tried to cripple a Mega Church from taking over their team mate’s territory. Although the Team mate wanted to kill the church agents compromise was reached and…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 22: Demonic Ally
I’ll leave it up to you what are demons in your setting. Summoning such a demon costs only 11FP of course the Pentagram (M125) prepared costs 10FP as well for…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 06: Doctrine Part 01 – Most commonly used magic
This is some doctrine basics (basically the Cliff notes so that you wont’ have to go through all those spells) regarding Knowledge, Protection/Warning, Communication/Empathy, Mind, Necromancy, Meta-Spells and Enchantment. The…
Read more →My Review of GURPS Spaceships
It deserves its glowing review and ratings. It simplifies a lot of work when creating ships in GURPS. I have one big problem tho, its that you have to still…
Read more →GURPS Social Skills Include Personal Grooming, Dress, and Styling
All Social Skills, have grooming and styling as part of the training and knowledge base of a social skill. I’m of the opinion that it should be universally built-in into…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 23: Ghostly Companions
Ghostly Companions is an old trope, you can say Virgil in Dante’s Inferno is one of such. A very popular example is “Bob” in Dresden Files. Then there are the…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 14: Familiar Templates
This is for my preparation for the next arc for War Beneath Heaven, a Modern Fantasy Setting set in rapidly Urbanizing African 3rd World. The really High Magery is not…
Read more →Work and Writing for 2014
Work is really what determines how much I can blog and the quality of my writing and material. It’s really a part time thing like everyone else who has a…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 24: Side Effects that Affects Time Stream
I want side-effects that can make the story interesting. One such side-effect is changing the character a tiny bit in the form of Quirks in his Time Stream. The Character…
Read more →GURPS Magic notes 25: Magic Item in Haven
Now that I’ve read it pretty thoroughly I learned I made a lot of mistakes in the interpretation. It really should be discussed, I won’t know how much I know…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 09: Sample Mages for the Setting.
NPC mages using Ritual Magic. Having these set up determines the value and accessibility of mage resources. Layer your appreciation of HR and you the formula of a complex and…
Read more →War Beneath Heaven, S02E03 Aftermath part I
News Report May 30 A massive fire has rocked the Warf area, in one Fortalez Labs, a subsidiary company of the Quijolo Group of Companies. Many lab workers were able…
Read more →Inspiration: Death Note
Finally Got to Watch Deathnote and it is Amazing and gave me a lot of Ideas. Anyway, the ideas expressed and storytelling in Death-note is great material for my GURPS…
Read more →Wealth Checks with the Speed/Range Table
Simple resource system for GURPS for less Bean Counting. Use the Speed and Range Table in B550. Basically Begin with a Professional Skill, Merchant related Skill, or Administration. The GM…
Read more →War Beneath Heaven S02:E03; Clashes before the Dawn Primer
(Happening during the Events of the Previous Game) Thomas was exhausted, his migraine got worse because he couldn’t run that day with all the fires that had to be put…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 05: Enchantment, Meta Spells, basic Magic Economics
What to learn First I’ve talked about Enchantment being on of the First Set of spells to learn, please add Meta-Spells, Knowledge and Necromancy. There are about 50 spells each…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 04: Enchantment
Ok I’m still studying the spells in GURPS magic, and I find myself comparing it to DnD 3.5 spells. Best way to begin Studying GURPS Magic is through the Magic Cart…
Read more →GMF S02 E02 Bloodied but Unbowed, After Action Report
I’m glad the team did very well, Cheng Dao, the Chaos mage and Online Blackmarket operator dealing with recreational drugs goes to his Shadow ISP to deal with harder drugs…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 01 on System Mechanics
I’ve been busy looking at the GURPS Magic System last night. There is the Basic Magic System (BM for short), which doesn’t have a name and there is Ritual Magic…
Read more →GURPS Modern Fantasy S02 E02 Bloodied but unbowed
Primer for Next Session S02 E02 Nov 23 2013 The explosion shook the building and fractured even its load bearing corners. The block that was once dark is now lit…
Read more →GMF S02E01; Shadow Wars Session Summary
Well the shadow wars have begun and the team foiled a take over for the meantime. The Prince was able to find out more about the threat. Discovering an conglomerate…
Read more →Magic in the Campaign
I was talking to +James Austin about Magic in the GURPS Modern Fantasy Game. We settled on GURPS Ritual Path Magic, which can co-exist with GURPS Ritual Magic found in GURPS Magic.…
Read more →Bench marking against GURPS
Just Browsing Running Results Nothing is as humbling as learning your GURPS stats. I did a run and finished at the 17% of men and 12% of men my age.…
Read more →GURPS modern fantasy S02E01 Primer
Sasha was going over a month’s CCTV footage of a months worth with some of Speedy’s IT and Jackie. Even with Speedy’s facial recognition plug in, its been pretty laborious.…
Read more →Supernatural Tansparency
I’m running a Kitchen Sink Setting and magic and psionics are usually very hard to balance. One thing that makes it a BIT easier is Supernatural Transparency. I’m taking a…
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