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…
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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…
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 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 →Zip-Ties to attach Visor to Mesh Mask.
Gearing up for 2014 games. Old Equipment being ziptied to remove gaps and make it easier to put on and off. It really takes me half a day (4hours) to…
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 →HK scouting report
Yan On Building has more than 10 airsoft (and related) shops. It even has WW2 uniforms. Guns cost around 6,000php (6php to 1HKD; Jan 2014) compared to our prices which are…
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…
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