Category: GURPS
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Memory House Rule, based on Studies
Because of the emphasis of route Memorization in Ancient education I think Eidetic Memory, or it should be renamed Exceptional…
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2015 Houserules update on GURPS Wealth
I’ve been making a lot of Wealth rules. Social Economic relationship to Game Theory is always getting the right kind…
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GURPS Houserules: No more double pay, Households, Relationships
Houserules I had to make to organize my game better and keep with the setting and immersion. No Double Pay…
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Running GURPS like Fate, and a conundrum
So I’ve been running GURPS like Fate… this would tear the hair out of any GURPS GM. But then I…
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More Player Agency. Incentive Points.
I’m a fan of narrative games – house of the blooded is the only I’ve played but I’ve followed +Tobie…
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Dispelling Myths: GURPS is too rules heavy
There is only one way to dispel the myth and its to actually count the pages (plus notes on average…
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Rules in Review – HT and Fatigue Rules
In GURPS B349, you find the Physical Tasks rules. Many of the rules deal with performance, but not the effects…
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Low Tech Education Notes – The Cost of Education
I don’t really enforce these rules and details, that would be too much of a buzz kill for a game.…
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GURPS Combat Notes 1: Basics of Maneuvers, Attack, Defense, Injury, and Grappling
Disclaimer. This is a rather simple flow chart. Can you imagine if I added the critical hit, miss, and defense…
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Learning Stuff Categorically
Learning stuff category helps for me. Like the confusing thing for me about Knockdown and Stunning checks. Knock down and…
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GURPS Rules that can adhere to the Core System
The core system in GURPS is 3d6 roll below a score, which has modifiers. I sometimes wondered why not just…
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Warring States Pilot Episode
Characters Thanks to: Zhaoze Zhexue +Steven Donaldson Yi Qin +Filip Vukanovic “Da” Yuan +Dan Mungham Anguo Aiguo +Daniel Tallor Summary The party begins in…
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Dwarven Loadouts, Encounters, and Mass Combat Encounter
My dwarves are a bit shorter, but wider in proportions compared to humans. So they even out a bit but…
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GURPS Magic Notes: Low Tech Long Distance Comm
This is basically looking at the Long Distance Communication Options found in GURPS Magic. Avian Messengers Animal Spells create the…
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Female Armor Notes; Sword Sisters Dilemma
Female armor choices suck. after this video I had to rethink a lot of female armor even the ones found…
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GURPS Basic Set Load-Outs
If you just began with the GURPS Basic Set and you want to just build a game around just that…
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GURPS Magic Notes 02: Basic Set Spells and Options Strategy Guide
Lets see what what best practices can we come up with just the options in the Basic Set. The idea…
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GURPS Magic Notes 11: Changing the Spell Skill Threshold
With an Open ended spell skill level, GURPS Spells should not be bench marked against skills. When skills have so…
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GURPS Low Tech Notes: Galleys, Naval Encounters,
Galleys Galleys are long narrow oared boats, sometimes with sails. They were used from BCE to the 1500CE. They were…
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Sins of the Crusade E05, A Petty War
Thanks to +Il Pella , +Thunder Clonch , and +Wilton Heath for playing! We finished the battle where we left off. I kept rolling 15-16 in…
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GURPS Demo – Behind the GM’s Screen
So on Friday Night EST at around 7pm, I’m running a GURPS Demo. No story, just a bunch of Pregens…
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GURPS Notes 12: Power Inflation, Why Doctrine
GURPS is fine in a realistic game. All the realistic advantages are fairly priced, no need to apply any modification.…
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GURPS Mass Combat Notes: Logistics and Lances
Logistics have been separated in the cost of forces in GURPS mass combat. Since MC already simplified much of the…
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Roll20 Macros for GURPS
Because the character sheets will be available eventually. You can find the Demo Campaign here. Thanks to +James Austin for teaching me…
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Sins of the Crusades Episode 4.5 – Intrigues
In Episode 4.0 Tertius and Xeno were part of a “War Game” where they battled season vets and manage to…
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GURPS Notes: Assorted Notes and a Simple exercise of Attrition
GURPS Mass Combat needs practice and rehearsals for the GM to get it right and so that the players also…
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List of Preparation for Warring States Campaign
Here is a list of stuff I tend to prepare for my games. If there is any question why I…
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GURPS Mass Combat Notes: Mass Combat in Roll20
These are my notes in correction of the mass combat I ran recently. I hope to update this when new…
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GURPS Warehouse 23 23.23% Off Sale Purchases
Inspired by +Peter V. Dell’Orto post GURPS Classic Vehicles 3e – Because I plan to work on some 3d galleys and simple…
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GURPS Magic Notes 13: Using Magic Items
A review of magic Items and some notes about how it affects a setting. Rules in Review The rules for…