As I work through the details on my Alien Menace campaign, I find myself fretting about character templates and kitting up the fighters. On the one hand, if you’re basically doing GURPS XCOM, it’s basically all about how good a trooper you are (a template), and the ever-cooler gear you get. From a RPG and…
I was never really a big Marvel comics guy when I was younger. I was at Edinborough Park with my family yesterday, wearing my Superman t-shirt. Seems like it was DC Comics day – I saw two or three other Supermen (all kids, one in full rig), one Green Lantern (adult), and a whole cave…
First blog post! Why will anyone care? Mostly, gaming stuff. I’ve got a few things in Steve Jackson Games’ Pyramid, one “real” e23 supplement on the way as soon as the Big Damn Ogre gets out of the way of the publishing queue, and it’s Just Fun to muse about games. Bear with me as…
Things got interesting on the stat counter on Blogger the last few days. I mean, here’s what happened: July 18 – 1043 hits. That’s a solid day. I break 1,000 when I post something interesting, or GURPSDay, or both, typically. My record month ever was about 930 hits per day, though unevenly so. But then…
Pyramid #3/77 – Combat is out, and I’m very excited. +Sean Punch has his typically enticing blub posted in the SJG Forums here. It has my alternate rules – playtested over the course of something like 6-12 months, for treating the Aim maneuver as a die roll. These rules work, in play, in a way that really…
Continuing the play report for the Skull and Shackles game, as always GM’d by +Jeromy French , with +Matt Sutton (Malgrim) , +kung fu hillbilly (Alejandro) , +Joshua Taylor (Gimbal) as my (Pel) more-or-less trusty allies. Hey, we’re pirates, trust is a guideline, not a rule. Play started with us waking up to find one of our new crewmembers missing from the ship, but clearly bad…
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Next time you want to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.
If someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back
At least you are aiming.