Traveller: Entrepreneurs
Mark Gellis, points out an interesting problem with Gurps Traveller: Interstellar Wars economic game system in this GURPS thread.what else is great about using this format is I get to…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Traveller ISW: Automated Turrets and Exo Skeletons
The turret programing will grant its bonus to the Gunnery Section. Basically it is the task of this section to monitor, manage and coordinate all the turret firepower. Its better…
Read more →Encounter: Strange Bandits
Strange Bandits are raiding the area.Background– The life of a soldier is a hard one, and one of the natural outcomes is to revert to banditry. Unfortunately circumstances can be…
Read more →Finally a Traveller Carrier!
Mythic Class Carrier Doctrine: Carriers are primarily assault vessels, meant to overwhelm an opponent’s defenses with high missile saturation. Fighters are meant to use 100 x 5 missiles to saturate…
Read more →GURPS Traveller: Intersrellar Wars 5-Dton Craft
All these small craft are typically blended wing design. Light Missile CraftThe cheapest and most bang-for-buck missile and screening craft for non-Imperial Navy types.Tech Level: 10.Hull: 5-dton Needle/Wedge Airframe hull…
Read more →Military Sci-fi Encounter
Mission: hold out long enough on the ground until Space forces can cut down enemy escape window. Enemies will have Orbital superiority, so the PCs side have to draw enemy…
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2009-08-21
Legal
House Bill No. 6658 Airsoft are considered REAL FIREARMS
source: Fallujah At the Congressional Hearing yesterday before the Committee on Public Order and Safety, we were invited along with all other stakeholders in the firearms industry and business to…
Read more →Updated TL10 Soldier Outfit and Load Out.
Personals Bag: $75, 4lbs Rugged and Discrete Belt optional bag 1.5lbs $20 Rugged and Expensive Multi-tool (includes butane torch-lighter) 0.5lbs $20. Rugged and Expensive multi function knife 0.125lbs $10 Snack…
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2009-08-20
Campaigns
Ultra Tech Ground Forces Doctrine
not that there is any argument but its just one of those thins that gets everyone talking…ETK arms
Read more →GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars – Vehicle Based Campaign
Traveller: Vehicle Based Adventure In terms of space combat, I noticed unlike ground side engagements its harder to Role-play individual initiative in Space combat unless the Players are working as…
Read more →GURPS Traveller Interstellar Wars – Review
Review. It seems as time passes, I see more and more un-answered problems with the GT-ISW book. More and more that, it seems the only real contributions of the book…
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2009-08-06
Deals
Gear Purchases
This month’s airsoft expenses.A New BDU for the upcoming Kami Wars. Our team will be using Cadpat as our other woodland styled fatigues. These safety gogles were from Vincent’s (in…
Read more →Sci-Fi Load-out: Long Ranged Operation Load
TL10 Long Operational Range Package. $37,190 Basically, this is a long range package complete with all essential gear for a mission that may last for a week. It is possible…
Read more →More Courtier Templates
The adventuring troupe is not complete with the non-combatant arm of an adventuring party. Before I prepare a sample adventure for Sins of the Crusade. Note the Point difference between…
Read more →GURPS Modern Combat part I: Common Ground
I want to go into how I run my Modern Combat games, but first lets start with some templates that can be useful in explaining my points. Here are some…
Read more →Rice, Potatoes and Corn
Gaming and Its Uses. I was able to figure out a few things thanks to the help of the SJ forum. Particularly the VERY hard to find topic of Spanish…
Read more →GM tools Ideas to write about
GURPS magic tools. How to introduce magic in your game with the most control and predictability with GURPS magic system. GURPS 6 second rounds. How to run 6 second player…
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2009-07-22
System Mechanics
How to use all those skills?
One can find my Knight or Warrior caste templates in my byzantine blog. Things to Roll… Administration: roll to stretching resources farther beyond their current capacity. Failure, just means you…
Read more →A Lady’s Honor: The Analysis of a woman of Philippines 19th century
Emerging from a purely domestic figure, the woman’s place in 19th century Spanish Philippines is centered around family. The role of a woman in then was pretty much the same,…
Read more →Stories.
I’ve been reading up on a lot of novels lately. A lot of them military sci-fi, but as my favorite author (GRRM) would say about settings, they are just dressing.…
Read more →My Template for Knights
The Warrior Class. The Knight is a term for the mounted warrior social class. In many ancient and medieval cultures, the warrior class is part of or composes the ruling…
Read more →GURPS Skill Organization; Running a Game
If you have read Design, Repair, and Use B190 you’ll begin to notice one of the initial patterns to the skills. In Medicine The skills are broken up as:Diagnose (Doctors…
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2009-06-28
System Mechanics
No Combat Reflex
Combat Reflex has some problems. Discussed in the following thread: Is enhanced defense Purely cinematic?Should I allow Combat Reflex in Historical Games?and other threads you care to search more thoroughly…
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2009-06-26
gear
Lets Start with Gear and You
I’ve been weighing my self and my gear separately in order to calculate maximum effective encumbrance. I know some people may be turned off by this but consider the possible…
Read more →Game Organization: Checklist
When I think of all these homebrew rules I put in this blog, I better have a check list to make sure that in a given situation I can remember…
Read more →Exoskeletons, Load Bearing Gear and Encumberance
So you can carry 45lbs with no encumbrance, does that mean one can still move as freely as a person without armor. I’ve learned when it comes to Gear, there…
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2009-06-22
Tools
Game Maps
found this Beauty: http://marcosceia.deviantart.com/I don’t know where the guy gets his map templates or if he makes his own. I’d like to get my hands on that template and use…
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2009-06-21
System Mechanics
GURPS and Intelligences
In GURPS Raw intelligence is 20cp per levelThis includes awareness, attention and will power (Perception and Willpower). Other Intelligences are:Perception 5cp/ levelSince there are physical limits human range of perception…
Read more →GURPS disadvantages of what would be considered normal
From this thread I semi-started and continued from an older thread. Alternate Title: Disadvantages that fill you up quick! I remember there was talk started by snowball about what kind…
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2009-06-14
GMing
I realized I have a lot of GM notes!
Some Background. I ran a successful Post Apoc Game (to my players)- my personal name for the game is Situational Awareness and Response Exercise. My most recent notes and the…
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