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 →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…
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Read more →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Moved a bunch of files to my shared gaming folder, and cleaned up two old hand outs. These are 11th Century Equipment and Horses. Basically I moved them to “statement” sized…
Read more →Here are some GURPS low-tech templates. They are again another take of the RPG archetypes. I think a few posts back I tried to make the real world equivalent of…
Read more →Another take on elves and dwarves. Dwarf 0 points Dwarves are hardy and strong folk. Their physical traits allow them to do more work then any other people, allowing them…
Read more →Made some homebrew tweaked OSRIC pregens that Fit CCG Sleeves. I plan to cut the printoutsand place them with my old L5R serving as stiff backing. I’m not going to…
Read more →The Random Lord Generator is meant to allow for the quick, simple, and detached creation of NPC lords as allies, patrons, or adversaries. They are also designed in mind of…
Read more →Made a bunch of GURPS 4e Mass Combat Low Tech templates. They feature the basic Ally cost and some lenses. Right now I’m constructing a way to randomly roll up…
Read more →Feudalism is very tricky and difficult to reflect in RPG system. It is not as much “ranks” of status but more about oaths of duty. A powerful lord may have…
Read more →These templates were made to reflect basic proficiency with regards to the hours of training that would into their contemporary real-world counterparts. I plan to emphasize on specialized intelligence, because…
Read more →Soldiers and Logistics, Translate to Adventurers and Adventures. Some GMing fundamentals I keep revisiting because I always find new ways of using and expressing them. The Roman Legionary 50cp The…
Read more →Secret Rolls: Role-playing Strategic Decision Making. Normally, Players may look at their rolls. I would not change this method in combat . In Character Decision Making, maybe I should start…
Read more →What is a courtier? This is a character role that has been mostly ambiguous and confusing to many gamer, including myself at first. A courtier is essentially a power broker.…
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