Getting back to Mahadlika
I’m narrowing my gaming related writing to my Mahadlika blog… and not so much gaming related writing but Story-writing. I’ll focus on putting down the setting of Mahadlika and moving…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
2010-08-01
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Part of the WWII Alliance
I just came from ALPADI where the WWII re-enactors group had a photoshoot, game and interview with GMA. It was a pretty good experience and the guys were so nice…
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2010-07-31
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ORPGS character sheet up
Finished a sample character sheet. It took a while to get pegged down to a particular list of abilities. Now that the character sheet is down, i can work on…
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2010-07-29
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Inability to gauge Encounter Risks a Good thing or Bad?
What Huensao pointed out is really interesting. Is the inability to gauge how deadly an encounter is Good or Bad? It also is echoed in KODT, when Heidi Jackson wanted…
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2010-07-29
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Humanity, a premise of Game System
I just participated in a thread discussion about Callousness. Funny thing about it is I sucked at bringing my point across. Its been a while since I’ve participated in any…
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2010-07-28
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What are tasks for Spatial and Visual Intelligence?
In games, Spatial and Visual intelligence (Awe) is usually lumped together with logical-mathematical intelligence (Int). Although i would say it is very different and doesn’t have a competing relationship with…
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2010-07-28
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What is an Overly Detailed Character Creation System
still working on my homebrew. I have a long list of things that I want to incorporate into a character creation system. Its a very long list, and when i…
Read more →Qualities in People: Multiple Intelligence Stats affect judgement
these are the GURPS plug in of multiple-intelligence Stats I’ve been working for. I’ve yet to fill out the text. At first, MI seems to be very complicated. There are…
Read more →Some GURPS Low-Tech Templates
Here are some GURPS low-tech templates. They are again another take of the RPG archetypes. I think a few posts back I tried to make the real world equivalent of…
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2010-07-24
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Creative Jobs and its bit of a relation to Gaming
This RSA Video is about Creative Jobs, in the GURPS forums I lurk discussion went to unskilled jobs vs skilled jobs. It reminded me of the video and its relation…
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2010-07-23
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if making Open Role-Playing Game System make a wiki
I just realized that if I plan to make my home-brew transparent, accessible and easily improved/altered to make derived system. I might as well pour all my homebrew notes in…
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2010-07-23
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Plugging the 7kingdoms IGE
I didn’t know Larps were called Interactive Game Entertainment-thingys now. This is the gaming direction my brother took with his writing. I keep telling him he should just write a…
Read more →Human as a Baseline of a Game System, Why not?
My position is to use Human as a Baseline for game systems. There is some philosophical problems when “human” is not considered the baseline. In this thread about Human as…
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2010-07-22
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Making World Builder Program Exectations Transparent
Dream Big then Whittle it down to what you can do with your budget and priorities. This World Building Program Expectations list of Functions is very ambitious. After finally writing…
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2010-07-21
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Some consulting about Software for Random Generators
Character Generation Systems are more interesting when there is a good character sheet to display all the details. Also, random generation systems are also more interesting when you can get…
Read more →Working on Game Tools
Harn has a manor generation system. Along with my own Historical Sources, I think I can make my own suitable for Villa, Manor, or Fief. This is one of my…
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2010-07-20
Game design
Tinkering with Random Character Generation
I’m aching to game again, but I’ve been a bit system picky. Right now I’ve accumulated a lot of notes on random character generation. Currently I’m wondering what part of…
Read more →Preparing for a Game
Preparing for a game takes some time. About leisurely 4 hours a week. What I mean by leisurely is that I can do something else while doing this, like watch…
Read more →Wilderness vs Dungeon Encounter Map Generator part 1
Dungeons are more linear and have been adopted by how much it eases the GM’s job by boiling down options to doors, rooms and hallways. After being much exposed to…
Read more →[GURPS] Magic Problems II
A problem of the magic system that can be annoying is that, mastery of a more complex form of magic is entirely independent of the more fundamental skill. A character…
Read more →[GURPS] Magic Problems
The magic rules in B237 under Magic Rituals are very odd when you compare them to Time Spent Rules in B346. Note how as the Skill goes up the amount…
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2010-07-12
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Has this Happened to You?
My bros and I were the first to buy the KODT Bundle of Troubles 1-7 and bring them to the Philippines. It was the first and Everyone wanted to borrow…
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2010-07-12
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Pondering different types of gamers or reasons why people get into gaming
Thinking more about old school and the complaints of the ilk regarding the more negative stereotype with the new generation. One interesting evolution about the games is that they have…
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2010-07-11
Playing
Today this Cripple Kicked Ass
Last week I sprained my knee. No tear, just a hard pull which had no inflamation thanks to the tight knee pad. Note: BoyP was there running the place. They…
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2010-07-10
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Less Investment on ME, more on THE character
I find it easier, to role-play a character who I’ve not invested so much effort in. Role-playing someone very detached from my own personality or who I am, lets me…
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2010-07-10
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Hard decisions in an RPG; KODT helps.
I gotta blame it on KODT, the comic makes me want to role-play. I can really relate to what the GM agonizes through when characters act psychopathic and unrealistically. Reading…
Read more →GURPSing Theory of multiple intelligences
I’m trying to write up the intelligences as Talents using Theory of multiple intelligences Interestingly 15cp Talent has NO limits B90. (13 or more related skill). Logical-Mathematical Intelligence is the…
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2010-07-08
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Real World Role: the Agent aka Pushers
The Rogue is supposed to be an adventure that lives by hits wits more than his blade. The value of Wits is pretty much what many RPGs escalate towards. Hacking…
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2010-07-08
GMing
Visualizing Mastery of a skill – GM Narrative Tool
My wife makes me watch project runway, and such competition reality shows have good examples of cognitive biases and how they can manifest in what the participants tell themselves. A…
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2010-07-07
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Definition of Diplomacy
Diplomacy, Leadership, Tactics, Strategy, are Key words you find in business, in real life, and RPGs. In the game, these words are boiled down to a skill. Here I break…
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