Today, in the SJG Report to the Stakeholder’s thread:
It’s been more than two years since I got the contract. But it’s out! I can’t think of a better GURPS Day present, of course. I’ll be doing a lot of Technical Grappling related posts in the coming days, and I hope that you guys all enjoy the book. *** So, now that I’ve regained…
Today is an unusual “GURPSDay.” Unusual because there are two Kickstarters going on that influence the future of the Dungeon Fantasy RPG specifically, and GURPS more broadly. So this is going to be a bit of “rah, rah” and a tetch of hard sell. Let’s start with the big one. Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2/Boxed Set Reprint This one’s important. It’s being…
Purchased and played Pandemic with my wife last night. Interesting game. I like the cooperative aspect, so that was cool. She drew the Scientist, I drew the Quarantine Specialist. That was something that was harder to keep track of, and I know that I could have foiled a few outbreaks that I forgot. We had…
PDF Distribution Anyway . . . all PDFs that were part of this Kickstarter have been sent out. In four cases, these are the “final” files: Fantastic Dungeon Grappling, Dragon Heresy, Lost Hall of Tyr (2nd Edition), and Dungeon Grappling. In two cases, Hall of Judgment and of course The Citadel at Nordvorn, I’m taking…
A retroactive (and oft-repeated) 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 rules cover-to-cover and see what inspiration strikes,…
Over on the forums, a poster asked a question that probably seeks to tie the Norðlond setting in with real-world history. He has a very specific goal in mind for his musings. I’m not going to address that. But the question of “hey, I want to introduce competing religions into this setting” is a close cousin to…