Yay, I get to play in another GURPS campaign! I’ll be joining +Christian Blouin and diverse others in his Reclaiming Khazad-dum campaign as of tonight. I’m very excited. It’s another fantasy-style campaign, but this one is pure GURPS (Tolkien based) rather than Golarion with GURPS. So we’ll see what flavor is there. Also, this group has decided…
Sometimes it goes right, and sometimes it doesn’t. So, let’s talk about another show that started out one of my favorites, and then . . . faded. The re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. First, a few words about GURPS BSG. There was a short thread on it in the SJG Forums, but I’ll ignore it for a…
Thursday is GURPSDay, and much like Christmas time, I was gifted with the transcript that someone did of the conversation between Hunter Shelburne and +Rev. Pee Kitty (PK Levine, Jason Levine) regarding the GURPS worked-example series After the End. For an absolutely shameless set of plugs, if you want some comprehensive reviews of each volume,…
For today’s GURPS-Day and GURPS 101 segment, we continue with the basic stats, this time with IQ and its derived abilities, Perception and Willpower. Many, if not all, of the comments made about the value of DX are true for IQ. They both have two derived abilities, and both of those are 5 points each….
Highlighting some old posts, because I’ve been having quite the week at work. So highlighting something that goes along with my Violent Resolution column for this week. Here’s a fun post about choosing the best possible armor you can get at the lowest cost. And another, this time if cost is no object, but you’re…
This is an article-by-article review of Pyramid #3/57: Gunplay. While I don’t usually do this, the subject matter of this issue is just what this blog ordered, and even if one of my own articles is in it, I really think every article, and nearly every word, of this issue is worth reading. So, a…