Thursday is GURPSDay. Things were relatively quiet in the SJG-o-sphere as the team wound down from a very successful Kickstarter. A quick gander at the pledges showed about 70% from the USA, and 20-25% from the UK, EU, AUS, and NZ. The rest were basically statistically insignificant. One notable thing – after the US, the…
Thursday is GURPS-Day, and I was going to make a post about attack and defense options on lulls and flurries again, but I’m going to return to that at a later date. There’s an interesting thread on the Forums which makes the bald statement that “GURPS seems to be engineered for people that enjoy really…
Ah, yes. Cabaret Chicks on Ice. The joke-title for GURPS Low-Tech for quite a while on the SJG Forums. Recently, since it seems like forever (but only seems that way) since my manuscript went into the queue in production and saw the rough PDF go around, I’ve been going crazy waiting for the Big Damn…
A discussion on the price of Talents and Wildcards led me to think about alternate pricing schemes for things. Without getting into too much detail, ability scores are a pretty good deal in GURPS. ST is probably priced pretty well as-is. DX and IQ are arguably undercosted for what you get. How many skills are…
This one can’t be quite as complete as the prior builds, but it will at least put all the characters on the same scale, using the Orc-o-Matic v2. This will either look at melee attacks or cantrip-based Orcpower, the basic “what can I do every round, forever, until they kill me?” question. We can look…
I’ve been working on multiple fronts on the Dungeon Fantasy RPG Nordlond Bestiary (formal title: Norðlondr Óvinabókin, or the Norðlond Enemies Book). Here is an example of the layout, graphic design, and art as it stands. Well, one monster’s worth. It’s not necessarily the final version, but I like it as a trend. The silhouette…
