GURPSDay Summary Feb 1, 2018 – Feb 15, 2018

Welcome to GURPSDay 2018, and the fourth year – GURPSDay started in February 2013, only a year after I started Gaming Ballistic. That makes GURPSDay 5 years old this month! Today I’m back from Thailand and while jet-lagged a bit, I’m still mostly functional. I have, on the other hand, been forgetting what the heck day it is all day long. It did not helpeth me that my work computer was still set 13 hours ahead, so I was confusing the heck out of folks – and myself – talking about “tomorrow a Saturday dinner,” since tomorrow is in fact Friday. Shudder.

For that reason, I did include two weeks in today’s script pull, just to ensure we time-travel back to my first day in Korat (Nakhon Ratchasima).

We’re currently drawing content from 96 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. Picked up another one today: Michael Thompson’s Traveller Adventures. Welcome!

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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n-Body Politics (kreios)

Space Combat Iteration 2: Overview (2/11/18)

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Traveller Adventures (Michael Thompson)

A Late #GURPSDay Post (2/11/18)

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The Gaming Musings of a Mad GM (Ken DeLyzer)

Grimwyrd: Magic (2/08/18)
Grimwyrd: The Scorned and Ro-Haern Rovers (2/02/18)

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Path of Houserules (Sciencezam)

1st Fleet Racial Template, rev 1.0 (2/13/18)
Deep Blue Kingdom Session 4: Cold As Ice (2/01/18)

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Dungeon Fantastic (Peter Dell’Orto)

A little on armor in my DFRPG game (2/14/18)
DF Felltower, Session 98, Felltower 70 – Gnolls & Norkers (2/12/18)
Felltower pre-summary (2/12/18)
Felltower today (2/11/18)
Morale stat, or Reaction Roll? (2/08/18)
Archon Shiva’s new DF blog (2/05/18)
Felltower Status Update 2/4 (2/04/18)
How well does the DFRPG do dungeon fantasy gaming? (2/02/18)
Hitting Prone Foes (little things I dislike) (2/01/18)

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Frak Frel and Other F Words (Rigil Kent)

Using GURPS Chases for a Race (2/15/18) – Thinking out loud about how to use the Action 2 Chase rules in a race where the objective is to beat one’s opponent, not to catch them. Relatively satisfied with how this works but not yet playtested.
Game Prep: Traveller, 4×05, Rampart-class Fighter (2/14/18) – Speccing out a Rampart-class Fighter from GURPS: Traveller (3E) and converting it to use the GURPS: Spaceships (4E) rules. Stats were most definitely abused.
Game Prep: Traveller, 4×05, System Defense Boat (2/13/18) – Speccing out a Wyrm-class System Defense Boat from GURPS: Traveller Starships (3E) and converting it to use the GURPS: Spaceships (4E) rules. Stats were definitely abused.
Game Prep: Traveller, 4.05 (2/13/18) – Making plans for the 5th session of our ongoing game. This is mostly stream of consciousness ramblings. No stats abused.
Recap and GM Notes: Traveller 4.04 (2/12/18) – Musing about the GURPS: Traveller game I ran on 2/10/18. Includes a link to the YouTube recording of our stream. No stats abused.
Game Prep: Traveller, 4.04 (2/06/18) – Making plans for the 4th session of our ongoing game. This is mostly stream of consciousness ramblings. No stats abused.
Recap and GM Notes: Traveller 4.03 (2/05/18) – Musing about the GURPS: Traveller game I ran on 2/3/18. Includes a link to the YouTube recording of our stream. No stats abused.

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Northport (Denis McCarthy)

Session Recap of Beneath the Fallen Tower Playtest at Manhattan Minicon 3 (2/01/18)

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Dark Paths and Wandered Roads (Jason Woollard)

Wandered Roads Recap (2/15/18) – This coming weekend we are heading back to Varisia with the ressurection of our old campaign. Here is a recap of the current campaign arc in our Wandered Roads of Varisia GUPRS campaign.
Grand Duchy 114 (2/01/18) – The Hutaakan become wary of the Grey Company and want some answers. Summary of the latest play session of The Grand Duchy of Adventure, our GURPS: Mystara campaign.

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Chain Link and Concrete (M. Eversberg II)

Diablo 2 Skill: Amplify Damage (Necromancer) (2/08/18)

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Daydreams of a Dragon (Dragondog)

The Dragon Tablets: Iteration Two – Weapons & Armor (2/15/18)
The Dragon Tablets: Iteration Two – Exploits Continued (2/08/18)
The Dragon Tablets: Iteration Two – Exploits (2/01/18)

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T Bone’s GURPS Diner (T Bone)

Dungeon Fantasy RPG: The Notes (Part IV) (2/10/18)
The Talented Thief: Stealing the Spotlight in GURPS and DFRPG (2/01/18)

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Fragments of the Last War (Bryan Timms)

Fragments of the Last War 2.5 – Temple of the Stone (2/08/18)

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Dungeons on Automatic (Kyle Norton)

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Octopus Carnival (Ubiratan Pires Alberton)

Dragon’s Dogma Bestiary: Hydras (2/09/18)

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Mailanka’s Musings (Daniel Dover)

Annara or Traditional Keleni Communion (2/15/18)
True Communion as Esoteric Skill (2/13/18)
Tinker Titan Rebel Spy: After Action Report for Session 3 (2/12/18)
The Symbols and Rituals of True Communion (2/08/18)
The Beliefs of True Communion (2/06/18)
Patreon Preview: the Keleni (2/02/18)
The Cultural Context of Communion (2/01/18)

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Olympus RPG Group (The Olympus RPG Group)

GURPS: Traveller, “The New Deal” Session 4.04 (2/12/18) – Fourth episode of the fourth “season” for our ongoing GURPS: Traveller campaign. Escaping from the holding cells, the crew split into two teams, one to secure transport off the station and the other to rescue their errant doctor…
GURPS: Traveller, “The New Deal” Session 4.03 (2/05/18) – Third episode of the fourth “season” for our ongoing GURPS: Traveller campaign. Having narrowly escaped the destruction of the INS Drake, the crew reach safety in the form of an Imperium space station where one of their number vanishes and another learns a terrible secret.

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Generic Universal Eggplant (Enraged Eggplant)