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Check-list for my Upcoming GURPS modern fantasy game

get everything done by Wed, May13 and the dry runs by may-15.  Set up all the Mooks with their stats and notes. At least the health bar.  Set up all…

My GURPS Roll20 Status Effects Legend

Enemies and PCs will have visible health bars (the green one) So that it will be known if they suffer the following conditions MA136 Roles = Players input their own damage, conditions…

GURPS modern fantasy 2 – Disad driven plot and game.

Here is a link to the GURPS Modern Fantasy set at Friday May 17 Newyork 7pm which is my Saturday May 18, 7am. I should be awake by 6. Second session…

Pre-Gens for my GURPS Game

Her is my 6 pregens head-ache for Against the Cult of the reptile God adventure Dwarven Horse Archer – Dwarves and Ponies FTW. ST15 Bow with bodkin arrows used against…

Downton Abbey as an Inspiration to a Traveller Game

my wife and I are new fans of Downton Abbey, as a gamer I can’t help be inspired by it story for a game or a story to write. Note…

Epic Administration

What is Epic Administration? I was going through some common tropes and discovered a new perspective when I was analysing how Politicians and how one can kill or milk a project despite…

How to Grow?

I guess what I want to talk about is how growing the hobby is not changing peoples minds about the systems they love but focusing in attracting more people to…

Re-Learning GURPS Combat with Vaclav’s Gladiator Game

Thanks to +Vaclav Tofl and +Martin Davis for the GURPS Gladiator Game! Nothing like a bunch of Martial Artist Enthusiasts Trying out GURPS Martial Arts, I’d thing SCA fighters would love the system more.  I lost…

Traveller: Living Materials and Gene-gineered Livestock

Living Materials – is like a wooden table that is still alive.  The purpose of living materials is that they are self sustaining and maintaining. using the ambient environment. One particular set…

GURPS Making Initiative Check Based

Initiative is a score that player rolls for his character where his margin of success and failure determines his order in initiative. Initiative is Tactics roll with SPDx2 OR IQ.…

Noli Me Tangere reading part 3

30 minutes, interrupted a bit. Its really hard to do these audio recordings since I need a relatively quite background, time to concentrate, and this is written by an 19C…

My Campaign material – Illustrated History Books

GURPS Traveller ISW Operating Costs Review

Here is my ISW Ops Cost. The future has a lot of costs. from $700 to $7,000 per 1dton per parsec from an independent trader but it costs about half as much…

Esoteric skills in business school

. Variable priority training,  mindfulness meditation, and breathing exercises can be found more and more in business education. Variable priority training in through games might be a thing. Mindfulness and…

Wishing upon a Sci-fi System

Questions I don’t have answers to: Wouldn’t Doctrine evolve towards low profile warships? Wouldn’t the same evolution in predator prey relationship create a ship profile doctrine that would increase the…

Gender bending without creeping out people

In another game I played a girl character, Sibila Wuchenco. By Playing i mean, i used “I” not “She” and it was not awkward or creepy. I’m pretty happy about…

the Running Craze and GURPS

Running is a very basic and very well understood athletic activity now more than ever. Right now the country is experiencing a running phase and I’m somewhat caught in it…

Bones Reaper mini’s may have arrived, Got my Printer back

I’ve got a letter in the mail for picking up something from the post-office. I can only visit the post-office in regular work hours, and there is that scary stamp…

Traveller – Merchant Team

The Broker or Merchant Team is a different approach from the Traveller setting as the ship is optional. Instead of buying and selling goods, they set up Logistics Networks for…

Traveller Merchant Rising Session 5

Thanks +Mark Knights , +duncan mcphedran, +Scott Cadoo, +Seth Blumberg and +Tom Tyson Another wonderful game. We got ambushed, while on concert. Worse is that we were ambushed by very well funded, psionic, extraction team. Tark?…

Epic Combat in Vaclav’s GURPS Gladiator Game

+Vaclav Tofl ‘s GURPS Gladiator Arena Game just ended, playing was myself,  +Jessie Foster playing Lucius Aggripa and +Martin Davis playing Parmenion. Jia, my Paper Tiger who is actually a Horse Archer (23 points…

History as a Campaign Setting

I always liked history as a campaign setting, practically it saved me money and memory. One big advantage was it fed to each other, immersing in history and designing a…

Trying to study more Character Accents

I was checking out G+ Hangouts if anyone wanted to discuss accents or practice them. I don’t feel uncomfortable working out an accent with a stranger, its not for a…

Traveller: Merchant Rising Session 4

This is my 2nd game playing Jia or Baron Jia. We had a slow start due to some key characters being unable to join, still we soldiered on and had…

Carrot and Stick’s L5R with GURPS

From the Happy Jack’s forums. Definitely using this over the L5R system when I get the chance.

Modernized Virtues in the context of Strategy

Prudence is a virtue that has a strong application to Strategy, Politics, Economics and Game Theory. I find that it boils down to careful judgement, and being able to choose…

Threshold vs Attrition Systems

Hit Points vs Hit Threshold; Fatigue Points vs Fatigue Threshold There is a BIG system difference between the two, but they are easily overlooked. I prefer to use Hit Threshold…

GURPS Gladiator Arena Session 3, but my 2nd

Report of +Vaclav Tofl The games were a “tribute” to a great general and a re-enactment of the war. Parmenion by +Martin Davis I’m playing Jia 2NPCs the General’s Grandson, Albius, in…

Fingers Crossed: My Kickstarter Bones: Vampire is being shiped

My kickstarter Bones vampire is being shipped, now the problem here in the Philippines is that there is always a risk of not getting here (never send valuables through the Philippine Post…

Played Around Roll20 last night

Some quick notes and learning Dynamic Lighting is a Paid feature, which is worth it for me (because I’m counting the whole Roll20 package) if I was running a game.…