I joined host Che Webster on his podcast Roleplay Rescue. The entire subject was GURPS and the Dungeon Fantasy RPG.
The Character Collections for The Fantasy Trip campaign has about a week to go. There’s enough information to make some adjustments to the campaign structure to make things a bit more convenient. This is taking the form of new pledge levels which combine physical and PDF rewards into packages. There are now Print + PDF “one-click” reward levels for…
This one will be quick (mostly because I’m having lunch and behind my work firewall), but today’s Pyramid Magazine is out, and it’s tremendous. What’s in it? A truly stupendous article by +Sean Punch and +Peter V. Dell’Orto with DF power-ups for the swords and smiting set. This wonderful piece of badassery is 11 pages of pure awesome. Things…
PDF Distribution Initiated As was foretold in the days of yore, 2,880 long minutes ago, orders for those with completed surveys have been locked, and cards charged. I also sent out PDFs for everything ordered to date. Five weeks from campaign launch to PDFs-in-hand. I am pleased. I hope you are too. If you’re one…
In Wednesday’s post, plus others, I mused on shields, and how actively they’re used. Thinking about DnD5e, and therefore Dragon Heresy as well, how can we model this, if we wanted to? DnD5e In a way, this is the easiest. The options are fairly straight-forward. Protection Plus The Protection fighting style allows giving an incoming…
One of the more persistently annoying, aggravating, or at least frequently misused or abused parts of GURPS are the “trading time for CP” guidelines, which give some pointers at how much study might equal one character point. The guideline is roughly 200 hours of study with a decent teacher (or the equivalent) might give you…
I’m a member of the Indie Game Developer Network. So when a member wrote that his Kickstarter was mid-swing, and a surfeit of real-life obligations prevented him from doing marketing for great justice (nod to Zero Wing). I offered to take a look at his product and review it. The Book of Nouns Well, yeah. The…