Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Who needs this – Very Meticulous GMs for a Political/Diplomatic Campaign World Builders in the tradition of Harn, Westeros, and near-realistic settings. Whats Important that you can’ get anywhere else…
Read more →This is prep work that goes into a Mass Combat Module. Such a module should have a large Poster Sized Map with detail up to the location of villages. (Ideally…
Read more →Centralized Bureaucracy. This is the wonder of the Byzantine Throne to the Crusader Lords. The ability to Tax their subjects and impose their will to the farthest holdings and the…
Read more →The China Products – Filipino Airsoft (FAS) – Forum is a great place to see irrationalities in action. I’m still marveling at the bias where people over price the value…
Read more →I was making my own homebrew rules for City Stats, designed particularly for Low Tech Mass Combat in GURPS and I experienced that escalation of objectives that tends to kill…
Read more →Strength 10 in GURPS was derived from what is considered “Fit” for military service. Given the increasing sedentary professions found in the modern world what we consider as “fit” is…
Read more →The horse com is a rich resource for game designers who want to model horses more realistically/accurately. Here is something useful for gamers from the article found in the title…
Read more →Working with Army Biometrics. 30% of one’s own Ideal weight is the point where penalties to fatigue and agility (mobility) kick in the most. Use the Weight of the person…
Read more →What Happened to the $50-80 Guns? I’ve been checking the prices and those in the Philippines, as well as forums around the web. It seems that no one is commenting…
Read more →Church history brings me back to my High School days, in my Opus Dei background. When I was young and naive and admiring the idea for killing for the sake…
Read more →In the Small Wars Manual, in Chapter 4 we have the March. The March 6-38 to 6-40 A small breakfast served at dawn, animals fed and watered, camp broken, packs…
Read more →e23: GURPS Crusades: “The Crusades lasted nearly two centuries, and their effects are felt to this day. These wars were a time of conflict, an era of secular and religious…
Read more →Mutant Future Characters Named Updated.doc – Powered by Google Docs Here is the PDF. Spiel Meister had us roll for levels and equipment. The characters have been modified to include…
Read more →I realized its best that I consolidate my Guns to only 1 general type. Unfortunately, I already started with 2 very different types and an additional off type, which s…
Read more →Mutant Future Characters Named.pdf – Powered by Google Docs these are my Characters for Spiel Meister’s Mutant Future Game, all randomly rolled. I made them part of a crew of…
Read more →I till have my GURPS and HARN books. In the baby prep, I read you can’t just have junk lying around because they gather dust. So I got rid of…
Read more →e23: GURPS Low-Tech Its been a while and finally its arived. I’m a month late to hear the news but still a definite buy for me. I’ve borrowed some Harn…
Read more →update: changed the google docs link to “anyone with this link” to “public on the web” and updated the link. Just comment if errors continue. Spiel Meister is running mutant…
Read more →Fixed my G3 and preppring extra batteries for a friend. I haven’t gotten back to the AK bullpup project ever since I got distracted by buying 2nd hand guns. Only…
Read more →To Register An MP44, a Glock 17, 2x M4, an MP5, 2AK47s, an M16. filing up the papers now. That totals Php2,160 plus notary public fees. I actually don’t have…
Read more →One was my Air-smithing learning project and the other was second hand at 3,500. The final cost of the gun first gun was roughly 6000 :(. I learned that I’m…
Read more →This is how I see using this field manual as a Gaming tool. Of course it would be helpful to at least read the first few chapters which deal with…
Read more →Stumbled on Orders of Magnitude (Computing) because of the latest news China Officially Overtakes US in Supercomputer Performance. So how would this work as to measure Intelligence? More importantly, it…
Read more →Right now Philippine Tourism has a interesting problem, how to draw more revenue by getting more Tourists. One interesting thing about the Philippines compared to its neighbors is the legality…
Read more →I’m an avid fan of realism, and it was through games that I became more enamored with the science of how things really worked. I couldn’t stay away long, and…
Read more →Here is an update of what I’ve found out so far regarding how much more stuff are being sold the prices I found are not Manufacturing prices but a Distributor.…
Read more →Got my hands on Manufacturers Prices in Airsoft Parts. This is where knowing a bit of Accounting and retail helps figure out if the business your dealing with is the…
Read more →I had a bad deal in FAS. The trader I bought this M4 was left out a missing inner barrel and hop up system. I gave a negative review, but…
Read more →Well its about time I keep careful tabs on my guns. I am building an armory and I would love not to have to memorize all the stats and keep…
Read more →My Armory is an Investment. I realized thinking more about what I’ve learned and the people I’ve met in airsoft, it is pretty much like the same experience when I…
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