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Finished my First RPG Podcast; Trying out other History Podcasts

Finished Happy Jacks RPG Podcast se01ep01, I was honestly pessimistic, but it was a GURPS GM so I had to try. And I was not disappointed, i could relate and…

Adventuring Utility vs Real World Utility

GURPS looks at relationships of point cost to Adventuring Utility, and not Real World Utility. If you are familiar with gurps and like observing humans overcomming challenges, then you will…

World of History Podcasts

I listen to Laszlo Montgomerys china history podcast, Lars brownsworth 12 Byzantine rulers, Robin Piersons the history of Byzantium and I will be download a whole ton more of history…

Hosted our First Game

In attendance there were about 22 people who came. There is a real desire by our, CTO’s, allies to have more ally airsoft games. It appears there is a market…

Is there a bias against ak? Scientific damage

Ok GURPS calculates damage based on barrel length, diameter and mass of the bullet. The ak101 is an ak that uses the same rounds as an M4/m16. In GURPS high…

Leads are Easy; Vetting them is hard

Its easy to get leads, everyone is looking for a deal… even when they are not in the position to get into one and when hey are looking for a…

Some Notes on Crisis Game

Crisis games are what I call games where things get really really bad but its not the end of the world. A coup d’état, a war, a large scale terrorist plot,…

Reflections on GMing after Simulations; Random Generating Flaws and Perks

There are a lot of ideas that come to me from converting my airsoft experience into GMing. One thing that just came up was, how Perception Checks should be handled.…

Value Chain Strategy

Arm reminds me of the story of Honda. Honda began making small engines, back in the 60’s. They were the best small engine specialist, and they climbed up the value…

Gov't corruption

– Not everyone is on the take. There are some idealists and far thinking pragmatists out there – far thinking pragmatists believe their intelligence and reputation has a higher pay-off…

Re-armed and rested

Got the WE Glock18 for about Php1000 off market average today. I also got a new “Airsoft bag” which is a 100 liter rugged-ized luggage bag for Php5,750 in SM.…

Cheating is really really bad here in the Philippines

There are incredible amounts of cheating going on in Philippine airsoft. One instance that just happen to our team was when we had a game where we siege-ing  the warehouse. We…

The Spear, the AK 47 of pre-modern times; Lessons on Tactics

http://goo.gl/aQEa5 this is a reddit discussion which I concur with, and want to save for use later on. Been Playing Airsoft more, and learning more and more about tactical implementation.…

Topics of a Multi-media RPG presentation

I’m currently working with some artists right now for the Map. Now, wondering what would be a fast way of introducing a setting and setting concepts? I was considering using…

Altruistic Goals have the most Meaty Challenges

I began as an Idealist, then found out that in the nitty gritty what I dreamed about was impossible. I learned the pragmatic side of business and how you should…

Digesting a lot of Chinese History

Thanks to Laszlo Montgomery I found it easier to follow chinese history. As a filipino, i pretty much fall in between western and eastern culture… especially since our culture is weak…

Mr Hooks Sketch Up of RPG 3d and 2d Maps

This is awesome. Structure wise they are HUGE, so perfect for fantasy. It would be nice to have the time to learn and produce some historical generic locations like this.

I have an artist already; patience is needed

I found an artist already. So this journey begins. Hoping for the best, and time must be taken. Basically the project is a Mass Combat Map and RPG setting. Basically…

Are we the only ones not giving a bribe?

Given how this is so common in the business landscape when it comes to high priced bids like Real Estate, Construction, and Manufacturing. I wonder out loud are we the…

Safety Incident at KM14

We had an incident in KM14, someone used a gun so strong that the when it hit the visor of a team mate it caused him to bleed at the…

Game Today at KM14

There are things to look forward too

LibreOffice will be an App next year. China Tablets at the $125 range (add $25 for the keyboard dock) have the stats of the IPAD 1 but at 10.1″ standard…

Artist Leads update October; Samsung Note 10.1

Well, now I’m going through the professional chain of my leads. I found some in Philippine 3d Artist forums. So hope that pans out… I got my wife a Samsung…

Local Artist Leads

Surprisingly looking for artists and checking their capability takes a lot of time…  Anyway I am looking for more local artist for the mapping. I told my friend, who is…

KM14 Sep 23, Induction of a new member.

at KM14. 

Quiapo Recon

Quaipo Again. I had to get some supplies for the team, and really check out if there really is a shop that also supplies Multi-Cam. Can’t find any but found…

Corruption from Within

There is a big problem with my gaming goals, the company I’m investigating has some serious problems. The symptoms I’ve been observing has some more troubling roots. I had several…

Dynamic Stretching before the Game

Pre-game stretching is next to non-existent. Before and between reps in the morning I decided to the dynamic stretching exercise. Week days is when we build up for the week-end…

Quick Fix – Cyma Ak Mags for JG compatibility

It only took a nail file, (as in finger nail file) to shave off this part of the Cyma Mags that won’t fit my JG AK. I also shaved the…

Work Outs – slowly but surely

The weird thing about my work outs is that I can’t count. I stop or forget to breathe when I concentrate and that is bad for the endurance I need…