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Pathfinder read-through – Chapter 3: Classes (Barbarian through Monk)

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A retroactive introduction: After an actual-play hiatus where I was mostly writing and playtesting for GURPS. I was invited to play in a Pathfinder game, and after a few sessions, it was time to buy the book and learn the rules! I decided to try and read the Pathfinder Core Rulebook cover-to-cover and see what…

GURPS Day Summary Feb 5 – Feb 11, 2016
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GURPS Day Summary Feb 5 – Feb 11, 2016

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Thursday is GURPSDay, and below you can find the blog activity from the last seven days. Over the last week, there have been about 50 GURPS-Related posts that have popped up on the radar screen, which is a nice chunk of reading material. Some of the more recent entries are really good – stuff that…

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Trying out Fantasy Grounds in a Banestorm Camapgin

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I was invited to play Radskyrta (Red Shirt, in old English) in a GURPS Banestorm campaign using Fantasy Grounds. I was interviewing +Doug Davison and a few times we mentioned the GURPS included ruleset. Overall impressions after five hours of play: The graphics are impressive. The player side of the interface handles things well enough. It takes…

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90 pieces of art, indexing, and Kickstarter

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As the light at the end of the tunnel becomes clearer, it appears that to make the book I want to make, I’m going to need art. Lots of art. (“a Picasso or a Garfunkel!”) I’m far enough along in the writing process that while I can clearly see that I have a lot to…

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GURPS Niche Protection – Capability vs. Execution

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A comment that was recently made struck an idea in my head, and that was that what makes characters different is what makes the game fun. The differences in their capabilities. That struck me funny, and it took me a moment to realize why. GURPS allows two different characters that have completely identical capabilities to play…

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Play Report – Castle of Horrors 1

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We got in our first game of Castle of Horrors, a GURPS mash-up with modern day characters that get transported to a Dungeon Fantasy world.  There are lots of house rules and altered point costs and stuff. I won’t go into that now – you can probably read all about them on +Mark Langsdorf‘s blog. The…

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  1. Really looking forward to the last. I struggle with my own demand for realism in my gaming, when most of my gamer friends are not remotely interested.

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