I am travelling, and was in a clean room working when i usually compile GURPSDay.
I will get it ASAP.
My new Alien Menace campaign is rather specifically designed to be episodic in nature. Each session is supposed to be a differet mission, to keep things lively. +Peter V. Dell’Orto‘s Felltower campaign is a megadungeon. He’s got a huge swath of area prepared, some stocked, some not, and the players explore this ground at their…
I posted my prior article on firearms for D&D over on reddit, and a poster noted that while he thought this was all neat and stuff, he was much more likely to be interested in naval cannon. That seems like a great idea, and I found a nice article online to base some initial stats…
I am not a fan of ST rolls as skill tests in GURPS. Quick Contests or Regular Contests . . . meh, at best. ST is not like IQ, DX, and HT, which are all fairly well described in game mechanical terms as to what they do, though in a way they do it a…
This is a continuation of my read-through of Chapter 3. Eleven base classes means a crazy-long entry; I broke it up. 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…
GURPS Basic Set covers the question of how high your skill levels should be with the Choosing Your Skill Levels box, on p. B172. Some other resources (GURPS Tactical Shooting, Guns Skill Levels, p. 42) also throw down what the right skill levels are for various archetypes. But let’s, as Jeffr0 put it, tear down the…
I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this one. Not only did I like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire better than the first Hunger Games movie, but I think I liked it better than the book from which it was derived. It hit all the high points, and less time was spent…