Damoren – a review of campaigns i’ve run and previous reflections.
I’ve fun modern “kitchen sink” settings where it has magical elements. And Damoren reminds me of this and like any GM who has run this and prepared for this –…
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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 →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 →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 →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 →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…
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 →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 →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 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 →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 →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 →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 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 →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 →Gods and Monsters, GURPS Modern Fantasy S01E8
This pretty much wraps up the season, which began with one of the oldest tropes: damsel in distress and ends with the characters maturing. In this episode the Pieter, Speedy…
Read more →GURPS Modern Fantasy: Gods and Monsters 2nd Arc
The Tower shook, at 100 stories it dwarfed many of the buildings around it by 40 floors. Its architecture is reminiscent of much earlier eras that was inspired by more…
Read more →GURPS Modern Fantasy Session 06 Gungeon Combat
This Combat Filled Session went well. I think we got to cycle through about 20 seconds. Realistically thats not how long scenes take to happen. Players were mostly confused what…
Read more →[Warning Mature Content] GURPS Modern Fantasy Session 03 Update
From the Point of view of Petier Warning Mature Content, please skip this if your easily offended. . . . . . . . . . The Jackals …
Read more →GURPS Fantasy Session 02
GURPS modern fantasy began where we left off, +Mike Dulay, +James Austin, and +Ken Kthulhu The next and season ending episode is June 01 (GMT+8) 7-10am or May 31 (GMT-4) 7-10pm.…
Read more →Session 01 GURPS Modern Fantasy
Thanks to +frksience ez playing James Steele (basically Black Dynamite!), +Mike Dulay playing Speedy, +James Austin Petier, +Dave Morris Prince Osman Al’Din, +Arne Jamtgaard Tasha Santiago, +Ken Kthulhu playing Thomas Michaels. Basic Narrative. It was a dark and stormy…
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