Wait, what? But GURPS doesn’t have a formal bestiary! No it does not. But during my interview with Ken Hite a few days ago, I had cause to open and digest GURPS Horror for Fourth Edition. I owned Horror 2ed, which of course is for GURPS Third Edition. I’ve never been into horror gaming, I realized,…
Two Great Days: Time to share! Two days ago was good. Yesterday was even better! The Citadel at Nordvorn is pushing 80% funding with just shy of three weeks to go (the midpoint of the campaign is Thursday March 7), and we’re building off of momentum from the very exciting Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2, which…
ACKS of Dissection So, I’m new to the ACKS game, in that I’ve now got a bunch of the books (Core Book, Player’s Companion, Domains at War, and one other). I’ve also developed a hellishly amusing friendship with Alex Macris, the author of ACKS and proprietor of Autarch, the company that publishes it. Why hellishly…
This one is going to be some thoughts, but I’ll get this out of the way early: I’m not terribly experienced with the current and alternate GURPS Magic systems. Some of that is lack of interest, some is lack of experience . . . but some is experience playing and GMing in a few games…
The Bestiary has cleared customs … but of course we hit a giant “reset” button and my freight company left out important details. Now we’re waiting for something called “de-vanning” and that apparently was not conveyed to me. On the flip side, I am awaiting only Kickstarter’s approval to get the next solo adventure for…
When I wrote Technical Grappling for GURPS, I had a basic design philosophy: use the same concepts as a striking roll – attack, defense, damage – to inflict a variable amount of effect on your foe. In this case, the effect is control and restraint, rather than injury. +Peter V. Dell’Orto liked the concept enough to…
