2016-03-12
Intensity Units and Recovery
The GURPS Effort Levels model or simply the Heart Rate Zones (I use fitibit Charge HR and a Basis 1B to know mine). Is a great use…
Tools
2016-03-10
Extra Credits’s Byzantine Empire Justinian and Theodora Series
I wonder how many hours will it take me to dig up my old notes for this campaign? I love how Crusader Kings, Extra History,…
2016-03-09
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. B426 Fatigue affects the Mental Faculties…
2016-03-08
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 something that would be easy…
2016-03-03
Rationality Tools for Gaming: Thinking Fast and Slow Ch 21-23
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman has been a strong influence in game design of late. Especially since I want to design the game…
2016-03-01
How Google’s research in Team Dynamics relates to your Game
Let me try to break this 5,000 word article to something easier. Note that I’m summarizing and simplifying its still worth checking out. As Game…
2016-02-26
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 try to fix that? …
2016-02-14
Just a Minor ugprade for both Laptops to 8GB each.
Spent months now and then trying to figure out RAM compatibility. Didn’t know they were pretty much standardized. At the same time trying to find…
2015-12-23
Scoping: If I ran GURPS 4E Again
GURPS was my core go to material for a while and because it was too tough to digest I gave it up. The game is…
2015-09-14
Present-day Africa – My next Modern Game
Initial African Studies Notes So I’m using the broad strokes of Demographic and Economic Data, and will proceed to go into more and more detail. I’ve…
2015-09-10
Back to Basics – Occasion to Roll
The occasion to roll is one of those ambiguous elements in TRPGs. I recently thought about some Project Management techniques in a different way that…
2015-09-04
Updates: Need to listen to a Ton of Audio Recordings and Much Prep
Hi everyone, Currently doing some basic prep work and Data and RL house keeping. So I have about 12 hours of audio to listen too.…
2015-08-14
Tutorials for Table-Top RPGs: lessons from Dungeon World
Extra Credit has one of the best well written and presented Game Design material. One of my favourite is Tutorials 101. Now in TTRPGs, the…
2015-07-05
Less Messy Brewing of Milk Tea at home
Loose Leaf tea is gloriously strong. Not as strong as coffee gram to gram, but close enough. Hopefully I get corrected online or someone can…
2015-07-02
GM Tools: The Pareto Principle
The Pareto Principle is the 80:20 Rule. What it means is that there are patterns in our everyday surroundings that occur with the 80:20 ratio.…
2015-06-11
Workload Rule-of-Thumb
A continuation from the Narrative Mass Combat notes on rules of thumb. This is Workload. a useful rule of thumb. In my studies its been…
2015-06-09
From a Note 2 to a Zenfone 2 – First Week
Pro. Responsive is 50% the score. When a phone is not responsive its pretty useless 90% of the time. Of course many things like features…
2015-06-09
Game Mastering and Playing: Framing in Opportunities part 1
I realized that identifying my own opportunities is the freedom and burden I look for in a game. The freedom to look for other paths,…
2015-06-02
Narrative Mass Combat Notes: Part 4 – Anthropometrics, Force Capacity, Land & Resources, and Mounts and Remounts
When i was playing airsoft I ended up using anthropometry more and more because that was the easiest to think about instead of recalling precise…
2015-05-01
Back to Basics: Listing GMing Techniques
I have a coping mechanism where I break down the mental routes I use and try to hack and analyze them. I can somewhat modify…
2015-03-04
Back to Basics: Non-Binary Consequences
Here are tools to use non-binary consequences to further the game. If you’re worried about gamist choices is being encouraged this should muddy up the…
2015-01-14
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 go back to the detail…
2015-01-12
Gravity in everything the PCs do. Some mnemonic tools for your consideration
Things in a game goes along faster when we deal with what is important. We do this in summaries and bullet points, and in other…
2014-09-01
Anygame System – Gamer Guide to Small Wars Manual part 1
Any Game System or GM will benefit from this Free Public Domain Book! It will highlight Tasks any Adventure (aka Operations) the PCs will engage.…
2014-08-14
Entrepreneurship of Adventuring, GMing Flowchart
Some Family History – my father came from a Roast Pig and a grocery store business (Lechon is common in all spanish cultures, despite how ignorant most…
2014-07-21
Terrain Evolution
Experimenting some more. These are Gifs of 128×128. They average 10kb. At 256×256 they average 30kb as gif and 90kb as png. I’ll be sticking…
2014-07-14
Roll20 Optimized Combat Mapping
First you have to Roll20 Best Practices Gif is the Smallest, and has some lost detail. Comparing the same file from PNG to Gif at the…
2014-07-09
Very Quick Roll20 Tokens for my Warring State Game.
Here is my non-professional work lolz. Hope you can find it useful. Some notes on the scale I use which I had to resize to…
2014-07-08
GM Preparation Formats – Ultra Lite
Game Preparation in GURPS is a time consuming process, but hopefully more and more GM notes will be available online so that it will speed…
2014-07-03
My Notes in Mapmaking with a Note 2 and 10.1
You can, hypothetically, do this in a Note 2 or 8. Of course with a note 2 its going to be more painful on the…