I joined host Che Webster on his podcast Roleplay Rescue. The entire subject was GURPS and the Dungeon Fantasy RPG.
Just a thought about a thread kicking around on the forums. I don’t have a lot of time for this sort of thing these days, but I did want to note something. The thread is about whether DFRPG characters feel a bit like superheroes. This can be taken two ways: that they resemble such because…
Morning! As we head into what will be a heavy writing weekend for me on Citadel at Norðvorn, I wanted to leave you with two podcasts. Roleplay Rescue (Che Webster) Che and I talk for about an hour, and cover gaming stuff both old and new. Game Night on Geek Gab I return to their…
A Fine Night Unlike playing the Pandemic boardgame (which is fun, as opposed to playing the pandemic home game, which is horrible), where “One Quiet Night” is a good card to play…we had a very active night, and jumped up several thousand dollars. That means in the first 24 hours we crushed through 50% funding….
There’s an interesting (drink!!*) thread over on the GURPS forums about what a “miss” means. It’s called Failed Attack Rolls, and there’s a concept in there that, especially coming from the source, makes one go “Hmmm” a lot. Let’s start with two quotes, both originating from Sean Punch, AKA Dr Kromm, the GURPS Line Editor….
We start the game in combat, at a distance of no less than 200′ from the foes, which are two clawed scarecrow like things. The first event is screaming children and two scarecrows – of a likely six total, plus a theorized hag – and the scarecrows hit the older elf guy, knocking him to…
I’ve been doing a lot of writing this past week. The Heretical RPG is up to just over 155,000 words. That doesn’t include monsters (that’s 60,000 words and will be ruthlessly hacked) or my setting (that’s only 2,000 words and needs to get ruthlessly expanded). What have I done? I finished the backgrounds. I’ve got…