GURPSDay Summary Jan 19, 2017 – Jan 25, 2018

Welcome to GURPSDay 2018, and the fourth year – GURPSDay started in February 2013, only a year after I started Gaming Ballistic. Last week, Emily added some error checking to the code, and so I’m confident that all but one of the blogs will pull properly. So yay, progress.

We’re currently drawing content from 95 blogs. We’re still picking up some feed issues with them, but once they’re solved, we’re that much closer to having 100 GURPS blogs.

We’ve got some interesting things coming in 2018. GURPSDay is often reshared and followed by some of the nice folks at Steve Jackson Games, and I made a suggestion to Kromm and Steven that has drawn some interest.  We’ve even come to an agreement on what form that will take. I will post about it in more detail later today.

One way or another, look to see the return of the monthly Blog Challenge. And another monthly activity whose destination is Pyramid Magazine!

We still need your help. And if you just started a GURPS blog – and I know that some of you have – email me and get on the list! With the advent of the Dungeon Fantasy RPG, Powered by GURPS, there’s even more reason to write.

How? Two action items: post more, recruit more. It’s really that simple. More posters is more posts, and more interest in GURPS.

Below you can find the blog activity for the last week. There’s a whole lotta awesome GURPS going on. Read all the posts.

Not every blog posts about GURPS every week, but some are ridiculously prolific! The list is randomized, so different bloggers will be highlighted at the top of the post each week.

As always, if you’re interested in having your blog consolidated here, navigate over to The Instructions Page and drop me a line. Take special note of the RSS Settings Fix if you’re on WordPress.

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The Gaming Musings of a Mad GM (Ken DeLyzer)

• Grimwyrd: Hearts of Stone (1/24/18)

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Dungeon Fantastic (Peter Dell’Orto)

• Dwarven Whetstone – DFRPG vs. DF (1/26/18)
• Man-to-Man -> 4th Edition: Fiendish Frederick & Rogan the Reaver (1/25/18)
• Man-to-Man -> 4th edition: John Falcon & Villem the Vile (1/24/18)
• The Ogres of DF Felltower (1/21/18)
• I need a complete, searchable DF equipment list (1/19/18)

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Northport (Denis McCarthy)

• Beneath the Fallen Tower now on sale (1/25/18)

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Libris Ludorum (Nemoricus)

• Psi-Wars Tinker Titan Rebel Spy Session 3 (1/21/18)

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Refplace (Rory)

• Pyramid #3/111 Combat II Review and author notes (1/21/18)

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Further Up the Spire (Archon Shiva)

• Session: Architects (1/25/18) – PCs play a series of epic vignettes in the mythic past. A whole rainbow of dragons! And much worse!!

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Dark Paths and Wandered Roads (Jason Woollard)

• Sundered Lands 44 (1/25/18) – The party rows to the beach near Kraken’s Cove and are accosted by a troop of enraged and diseased monkeys. The newest adventures in the Sundered Lands of Palladium, our GURPS: Palladium Fantasy campaign.

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Path of Houserules (Sciencezam)

• Deep Blue Kingdom Mecha: ADF-15 Falcon (1/19/18)

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Dr. Kromm’s GURPS Livejournal (“Sean “”Dr. Kromm”” Punch”)

• Another week in the life of GURPS (1/19/18)

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Frak Frel and Other F Words (Rigil Kent)

• Traveller Characters and Subplots (1/23/18) – Musing about the characters for the GURPS: Traveller game I’m running on Saturdays. Links to current character stats.
• Recap Notes: Traveller 4.01 (1/22/18) – Musing about the GURPS: Traveller game I ran on 1/20/18. Includes a link to the YouTube recording of our stream. No stats abused.

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Ostarys Tactics (Archon Shiva)

• Session: Architects (1/25/18) – PCs play a series of epic vignettes in the mythic past. A whole rainbow of dragons! And much worse!!

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Olympus RPG Group (The Olympus RPG Group)

• GURPS: Traveller, “The New Deal” Session 4.01 (1/23/18) – Fourth “season” premiere for our ongoing GURPS: Traveller campaign, this time with a different GM. Following their narrow escape from null-space, the crew find themselves thrust into an unexpected situation.

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Generic Universal Eggplant (Enraged Eggplant)

• Sorcery: Noxious Fire Effects (1/25/18)
• Sorcery: Noxious Cold Effects (1/24/18)
• Sorcery: Noxious Acidic Effects (1/23/18)
• Martial Art: Snap, Crackle, and Pop (1/22/18)
• Sorcery: Power Word Spells II (1/21/18)
• Sorcery: Power Word Spells (1/20/18)
• Racial Templates: Centaurs (1/19/18)

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Mailanka’s Musings (Daniel Dover)

• Patreon Special: Domen Khemet, the Ranathim Cult of Death (1/25/18)
• Patreon Special: Sample Broken Communion Ghosts (1/24/18)
• Patreon Special: Space Ghosts Revisited (1/23/18)

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Gaming Ballistic (Douglas Cole)

• GURPSDay Summary Jan 19, 2017 – Jan 25, 2018 (1/25/18)
• Action Point Economy Thoughts (1/25/18) – It’s been a while since I thought much about Action Points from The Last Gasp, but it occurred to me that how AP interact with attack and defense penalties might give a reason to lower those penalties. Attacks and defenses will self-limit due to exhaustion. Other implications?

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Dungeons on Automatic (Kyle Norton)

• An update on the generator front (1/25/18)
• Token Tuesday: Werewolf (1/23/18)

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Let’s GURPS (Pseudonym)

• Cross-Post: GURPSDay Summary and Reflections (1/25/18)
• Pseudobot: Heroic Background Generator (1/22/18)

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MoeLane.com (Moe Lane)

• Prismatic Pistol [TL4+4], [GURPS 4e]. (1/19/18)

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n-Body Politics (kreios)

• Space Combat Iteration 1: Deep Space (1/20/18)

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RogerBW’s Blog (Roger Bell-West)

• Pyramid 111: Combat II (1/20/18)