Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
I have many unfinished projects related to gaming but despite that I consider them a part of a learning process *cough *bull$#! +*cough* Anyway they helped me slowly identify several…
Read more →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 →TL:DR i noticed that you can spend time and money on marketing or transparency in game kickstarters or biz projects. I’m in favor of smart transparency, less noise and simpler…
Read more →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 →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 →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 →What would happen if there was no Taxes for Schools and Teachers in the Philippines for about 20 years (Reinstating the tax slowly after; This Tax Free Extends to Certified…
Read more →Some tips using Hangout, this is basically my experience so pardon for the lack of sources. Hangouts seems to work even with just 40 kbps (40 max download or upload).…
Read more →I guess TL:DR No more short arc games, just long game and experimenting and trying out new things within that game. I realized I should tell my players that I…
Read more →A bunch of hangout virgins fumbling around. Well there were a lot of lessons learned. Many will be going to the invite notes. The new Hangouts Layout complicated things a…
Read more →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 →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 →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…
Read more →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 →A lot of my experiences inspire me to model things as a game, which is pretty much explains my hadron for SCIENCE. Running inspires me to improve the movement rules,…
Read more →My dad and boss throws me some business ideas and I’m the crazy person who checks out if it works. So I read up on the business and it’s really…
Read more →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 →I borrow money to buy a Desktop, a Car, a home. Interestingly, I took on a Debt disadvantage forcing to have less disposable income but in return I have an…
Read more →Observing my players, myself, everyone I play with is one of my favorite parts of RPGaming. I admire those players who really RP their decision making and really taking on…
Read more →Dropped Pin just annoyed something like this is not on gmaps.
Read more →Role-Playing is Decision Making Sciences for me. Stuff from Intelligence of Emotions, Cognition, Behavioral Economics, and Economics and Demographics (backgrounds and trends of human personality archetypes: ex. coming from severe…
Read more →I tried to model Moore’s Law and computing power over time, and wow those assumptions of data processing are pretty exponential. Note that Moore’s Law is made up of two…
Read more →I don’t want to set high expectations about how I run games lolz. So here is Session 07 of GURPS Modern Fantasy, a Kitchen Sink Game where serious to casual…
Read more →Rules and Physics for large creature fighting are pretty challenging. One of the reasons one would like to play such a campaign is to kill big monsters, but for me…
Read more →I had to drop out of 2 games, since I don’t have flexi-time anymore. So my wednesday morning games are gone 🙁 Oh well, thats the nature of work and…
Read more →I find it pretty interesting that my company does international projects. We did fit outs from Tunisia, Costa Rica, Ireland, Qatar, and in the US, but now we have IT…
Read more →Alexios of House Ducain The Ducain Lands. 900,000 acres Complications He was Duke Tytos’s squire, and Tytos abused him and is very much still infatuated with him. Betrothed to Lady…
Read more →I have an open invite to my GURPS Modern Fantasy Game. I tend an interested person every other week. So far out of the 4 people who asked (which i…
Read more →Speed for me is being able to focus on drama instead of just the rolls. I want the narration and the emotion substantive with the rolls getting a little out…
Read more →One of my many heavily prepped games, that I never got to run was converting an old DnD Module I was never able to run for my brothers into GURPS.…
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