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GURPS Day – Instructions for Getting on the List
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GURPS Day – Instructions for Getting on the List

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GURPS Day Preparation! With some help from +Jeffro Johnson – lots of help – I now have a PERL script that will look at the RSS feeds for blogs and pull out the GURPS posts, and spit ’em out formatted all nice and proper. If you hear that in Nathan Fillion’s voice, well, you’re not wrong…

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The Last Gasp – Designer’s Notes

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Thursday is GURPS-day, and so here’s today’s entry: This one isn’t really navelgazing. I wrote The Last Gasp for a few specific reasons, and I thought I’d share a bit of how the article came about. First, I’ve been a bit – frustrated is too strong a word – but at least a bit twitchy…

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Stats and pricing in GURPS

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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…

Majestic Wilderlands – Weekend at Bryny’s 2
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Majestic Wilderlands – Weekend at Bryny’s 2

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We walk by Orsal’s house, flying casual. A mercenary is standing outside the house like he’s waiting for someone, and two nobles are there talking. “Is The Man here?” Yes. “The man has a nice house.” OK. We fail insight and history rolls. Not being thiefy, we decide to pass, and head to the Sheriff’s…

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Majestic Wilderlands – Marcus the Training Pell

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We begin where we left off, about to get into a fight with “the glasstaff” as well as Herone (connected to the dragon Pan Calderax, which can’t be good for us) and at least one other. We’ve sent a hapless courier inside, he got caught and is now either being tortured or beaten or otherwise…

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Pyramid #3/57 – Dodge This

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This is an article-by-article review of Pyramid #3/57: Gunplay. While I don’t usually do this, the subject matter of this issue is just what this blog ordered, and even if one of my own articles is in it, I really think every article, and nearly every word, of this issue is worth reading. So, a series…