Character Collections: Funded on Day One!
Time to put on that pretty floral bonnet and party. Hopefully I won’t end up married to a psychotic redhead. My current mostly-stable redheaded wife would not be amused.
Time to put on that pretty floral bonnet and party. Hopefully I won’t end up married to a psychotic redhead. My current mostly-stable redheaded wife would not be amused.
Dark Conspiracy (First Edition Cover) Dark Conspiracy (published by the Games Designer’s Workshop, or GDW, in 1991, by Lester W. Smith) was a grim action/horror RPG set in a dystopian future where evils of all kinds plague the globe. This one came out when I was in college. The Gulf War had kicked off, if I recall…
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…
Why the Dungeon Fantasy RPG? So, in another forum, I was challenged: “Sell me on Dungeon Fantasy.” OK. I will: All the flexibility, tactical combat glory, deadliness, and specificity that GURPS is known for, with the additional benefit that the line editor went through and removed all the stuff you DON’T need. GURPS is a…
October 29, 2015 Dramatis Personae The Commander (Doug) – telekinetic super-soldier with a really angry dog (Yukio). The dog is a powerful ally (250-300 points) and very intelligent and very, very aggressive. Arc Light (Christian) – battlsuited gadgeteer with electrical powers The Rat Queen (Emily) – brick with super-perception; made of actual rats Eamon Finnegan…
Today while doing a home improvement project I had occasion to walk around the house with a dueling version of the venerable “Ten Foot Pole” from Dungeons and Dragons. Well, not too much – the pole was nine feet long. Boy was it a pain in the butt. My basement has ceilings that range from seven…
Thursday is again GURPSDay, though I’m posting on a Friday. How very LEGO Movie. An eventful week for GURPS. Don’t believe me? Fine! Check out the GURPS News, which is chock full of new info. Also SJG released Steampunk 3: Soldiers and Scientists yesterday. Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2 was put on the “watch this space”…