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One of the PCs is on the verge of Move 9, which is a Haste spellstone away from Move 11. Per DFRPG Exploits, p. 33, this means he can get a two-hex step. A few questions arose related to it and indirectly connected to it. Does this net a two-hex Retreat? No. My ruling is no. Although Retreat says "one step (p. 33)" and "normally… Read more

 The Cast of B-Team (Aersalus)Listens to Ocean aka Osprey (Rory) Halfling Magistrate, mage, healer, priest, historian.Rhum Kaldalsson (Curtis) Minotaur artist.Trapper (Chris D) Gremian, artificer, hunter, Armsmaster.Unit 7 (Brice) A Cog, magical construct golem.NPC'sAltan ru Chuulaii the tax collectorRaitoTesseikai Watersinger, healerMurk the Lurk, spirit crabBandit CampListens is taken to the bandit camp by Snaffles. It is surrounded by a magical barrier and they seem to be… Read more

Game Date: 11/17/2024 Weather: Cool, clear, dry. Characters Chop, human cleric (301 points)      Brother Quinn, human initiate (125 points) Duncan Tesadic, human wizard (300 points) Hannari Ironhand, dwarf martial artist (316 points)      Amlaric, human squire (125 points) Persistance Montgomery (303 point knight)      Leon the Eye, human archer (125 points)      Aaron, Brandon, Cedric, and Dortmund, human guards (62 points)      Bullworth and Oxford, human laborers (62 points)… Read more

I saw a comment on a YouTube video the other day about GURPS which stated the Number One problem with GURPS – of the two given – was that you “roll dice too often”. My face scrunched up and I thought, “Really? Isn’t that more of a play style thing?” I mean, GURPS doesn’t mandate […]… Read more

My new (new) job is settling into place, and seems to be rather relaxed (despite, or perhaps because of, being such stressful work?) and I’m recovering from the seasonal flu, but all told, I think I’m hitting my stride again. Knock on wood, but I think next month we can go back to the usual … Continue reading "Wiki Update: Relic Knights!"… Read more

I’ve recently started a new GURPS Play-by-Post campaign on the SJ Games forum. The basic campaign concept is; a modern day mega-corp managed to build an arcology on a series of artificial islands off the coast of Greece. This “company town” operated on the edge of national law, and has a population of a bigContinue reading "Campaign Journal: Anarchy in Atlantis"… Read more

Wizardry: Fun with PrestidigitationD&D, being a combat-focused system, combines all the minor utility spells that wizards would likely to learn to make their day-to-day lives easier into a single spell – Prestidigitation. GURPS is an entirely different beast, with plenty of spells in GURPS Magic that a D&D player would call useless. Then, we even have GURPS Magic: The Least of Spells that… Read more

Wizardry: Miscellaneous Spells IHere, we have not spells from a specific D&D book, but some miscellaneous spells I made as sorcery spells before and that I'd like to rework for wizardry.Censure is a clerical spell that marks the subject as an outcast.Death Link is a unique spell that binds two souls together so that whatever happens to one creature also happens to another one.Disarm… Read more

Mission X Streamlined Modern Action Roleplaying Powered by GURPS Mission X  is focused on modern action, with inspiration from Stargate SG-1, Aliens, XCOM, and the like. A streamlined, rebuilt engine focusing getting new and experienced players to the table. Fast and smooth character generation and gameplay in the genre GURPS does better than just about… The post Mission X: Coming in 2025 appeared first on… Read more

Wizardry: Complete Divine Spells IIIMurderous Mist is a non-incendiary version of Incendiary Cloud.Probe Thoughts lets you retrieve memories from another creature.Sandblast is a weak cone attack with a blinding side effect that I basically bullshitted into existence instead of doing things RAW. I based it on the Sand Blast spell from GURPS Magic: Artillery Spells.Scent is a simple… Read more

We’ve been there before – two skills both alike in utility…GM, do I really have to purchase both? Yes, that’s RAW of course…although… So that was my thought a couple of hours ago, well that in anthropomorphizing Shakespeare characters as GURPS traits. In this post I’m going to do something weird and radical and not something […] The post GURPS101: Merging Autohypnosis and Meditation appeared first… Read more

Wizardry: Complete Divine Spells IICrown of Glory is a character point-powered spell that gives you an awesome aura and lets you be understood universally. You also glow.Crumble is a character point-powered attack spell that can be used if you need to get rid of something fast. 20d on average deals 70 damage, which is enough to crumble a 6"-thick brick wall, 1"-thich mild steel wall or… Read more

Patron Simon asked me, quite some time ago, to discuss ship modification. I had been quite busy, so I didn’t get around to it, but I have a few spare moments, and I have been tinkering on the request behind the scenes, and I thought I could at least lay out some basic thoughts. Do … Continue reading "A Brief Word on Ship Modification"… Read more

Dramatis Personae Allison Bell aka Apex (played by Devin): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Billy Ray Husley aka Hux (played by Nose): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Connor Bell aka Boombox (played by Owen): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Jack A. “JR” Richards, Jr. aka Electro (played by Scott F.): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Neuron-134899 aka Nero (played by Merlin): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Hannah “Hot Lips” Hayes (NPC): TBA. Tagline: “TBA.” Li “Cookie” […] The post AEON E1-Team: Season 1, Session 1 –… Read more

Dramatis Personae Felicity E. “Flit” Chou (Played by Randy): Talks to fast. Hopeless romantic. Musician. Loves to skateboard. Power: Teleportation. Tagline: “Here. There. Everywhere.” Fiona A. Egan (Played by Chepe): A budding society girl and star athlete who keeps getting distracted by both civil and social engineering; also a hydromancer slowly uncovering her powers. Power: Water […] The post AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 21 –… Read more

Dramatis Personae Felicity E. “Flit” Chou (Played by Randy): Talks to fast. Hopeless romantic. Musician. Loves to skateboard. Power: Teleportation. Tagline: “Here. There. Everywhere.” Fiona A. Egan (Played by Chepe): A budding society girl and star athlete who keeps getting distracted by both civil and social engineering; also a hydromancer slowly uncovering her powers. Power: Water […] The post AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 20 –… Read more

So, we have an absolute minimum sort of system description with Mintaka. It’s out. It exists. We’ve achieved our goal. Can we cycle again and improve it? Sure, but the question is, what should we improve? What do we need? What should a “standard world write-up” have? Well, let’s look at our resources. GURPS Space … Continue reading "LBAW Mintaka 2: A Minimal Template"… Read more

This article is part of a series! Click here to see the other entries. We’re firmly in the wrap-up stage now. If you’re here, the PCs have succeeded at dismantling the powerful magical defenses of the Temple of Asmodeus and disrupted a dire summoning ritual that was Barzilai Thrune’s last attempt at squashing the Silver Raven rebellion. They made it out with a literal dragon’s… Read more

Dramatis Personae Felicity E. “Flit” Chou (Played by Randy): Talks to fast. Hopeless romantic. Musician. Loves to skateboard. Power: Teleportation. Tagline: “Here. There. Everywhere.” Fiona A. Egan (Played by Chepe): A budding society girl and star athlete who keeps getting distracted by both civil and social engineering; also a hydromancer slowly uncovering her powers. Power: Water […] The post AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 19 –… Read more

 The Cast of B-Team (Aersalus)Listens to Ocean aka Osprey (Rory) Halfling Magistrate, mage, healer, priest, historian.Rhum Kaldalsson (Curtis) Minotaur artist.Trapper (Chris D) Gremian, artificer, hunter, Armsmaster.Unit 7 (Brice) A Cog, magical construct golem.NPC'sAltan ru Chuulaii the tax collectorRaitoTesseikai Watersinger, healerMurk the Lurk, spirit crabWe make it back to town and put the loot in the cellar. The team is entitled to 10%, the town another… Read more

With the release of ghosts, a discussion of the worlds associated with the ghosts came up, as well as the fact that not a lot of world detail has made it to the wiki. Why is there so little written about the worlds on the wiki? It’s not because the detail isn’t there, I have … Continue reading "Lets Try to Build A World Again"… Read more

Dramatis Personae Felicity E. “Flit” Chou (Played by Randy): Talks to fast. Hopeless romantic. Musician. Loves to skateboard. Power: Teleportation. Tagline: “Here. There. Everywhere.” Fiona A. Egan (Played by Chepe): A budding society girl and star athlete who keeps getting distracted by both civil and social engineering; also a hydromancer slowly uncovering her powers. Power: Water […] The post AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 18 –… Read more

Here are the limits, currently, on hirelings and henchmen in DF Felltower. 62-point Bargain Henchmen: Unlimited. PCs can get as many as they like, subject to rolls (the usual 1+margin of success) 125-point Henchmen: Limited. One per PC per search. Known and existing hirelings may be found on a seperate roll. 187-point Henchmen: Rare. A critical success on a search for a 125-point henchmen is… Read more

Wizardry: Complete Divine Spells II've just finished selectively adapting spells from Complete Arcane, but there is another major book – Complete Divine. While this one does have some spells for wizard, it has many more spells for clerics and druids that just won't work as arcane spells in terms of flavor. Thus, it's time to give divine spellcasters some love.Anger of the Noonday Sun creates… Read more

  Authorial Highlights Worked on a couple of different short bits and bobs to stretch my fiction writing muscles. Getting a bit more confidant. The Fantasy Trip Quick Quest “The Gallery of Hands” remains in the hands of Steve Jackson. Continuing to work on another article for Hexagram for The Fantasy Trip – still working on a […] The post Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights… Read more

Approaching the camp. Diplomacy. A sense of danger. Luck. Warbots and Empire troopers. Luck. Space knights never sleep. Old enemies and clowns. A lucky blow and an unlucky blow. A leap of faith. Destruction of heirlooms. Luck. The style of the spider monkey. Bringing down the mountain. Luck. Rocket-propelled Void-driven destruction. Luck. Timmy has news. […]… Read more

Dramatis Personae Felicity E. “Flit” Chou (Played by Randy): Talks to fast. Hopeless romantic. Musician. Loves to skateboard. Power: Teleportation. Tagline: “Here. There. Everywhere.” Fiona A. Egan (Played by Chepe): A budding society girl and star athlete who keeps getting distracted by both civil and social engineering; also a hydromancer slowly uncovering her powers. Power: Water […] The post AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 17 –… Read more

I’m late, I’m sorry. So, as promised on Sunday, I’ve worked on the ghost update. I’ll drop links to all the updates first, and then discuss the why and some broader discussion around the update. I’ve also updated the Path of Death All the ghosts are also split up by location, but the Eldridge Martyr, … Continue reading "Wiki Update: the Halloween Edition"… Read more

Dramatis Personae Felicity E. “Flit” Chou (Played by Randy): Talks to fast. Hopeless romantic. Musician. Loves to skateboard. Power: Teleportation. Tagline: “Here. There. Everywhere.” Fiona A. Egan (Played by Chepe): A budding society girl and star athlete who keeps getting distracted by both civil and social engineering; also a hydromancer slowly uncovering her powers. Power: Water […] The post AEON C3-Team: Season 2, Session 16 –… Read more

I keep messing around with the stat block, and I think I'm pretty much out of ideas of how to improve it further. The Hell Knight was an old conversion I had lying around, and I've decided to throw it here to test the new style for traits and the bigger and more visible HP and Active Defenses section. For monsters with huge lists of… Read more

Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to steal material for RPGs, and work out an example…. Read more

This is the standard "guard" NPC that PCs hire or sometimes fight. This is built off of the 62-point Guard template in Dungeon Fantasy 15: Henchmen. Generic Guard Available for hire, or to fight the PCs as they delve! ST 12 HP 12 Speed 5.75 DX 11 Will 10 Move 4 IQ 10 Per 10 HT 12 FP 12 Dodge 7 Parry 9+DB 2 Block… Read more

Druidic Spellcasting RevisedIt's time to solve the druid question. I have a problem with druids in GURPS – I love druids conceptually, but mechanically… let's say that they are subpar in most situations. For the most part, this is due to their power modifier. In this post, I'd like to talk about the power modifiers, about druids in general, and try to rework my druidic… Read more

In our last game, one of the PCs attempted an Acrobatic Dodge (Exploints, p. 48, and Campaigns, p. B375). He rolled an 18 on his Acrobatics roll. What happens? The player agued, nothing except a -2. An 18 is a failure, and a failure is a -2 to Dodge. It says that explicitly in both referenced ryles. I allowed that, but I'm still not convinced…. Read more

This is a GM's view of a useful way to use hirelings in DF Felltower. I'm focusing especially 62-point hirelings, since they're pretty much available in large amounts in a way that 125 point ones are not. Expected additional reading: What are Hirelings Good For? Repeat after me: Hirelings are Not PCs One of the biggest issues I see is expecting too much of hirelings…. Read more

Wizardry: Food Spells III've been neglecting one of my favorite GURPS Magic colleges, and that is the College of Food. It may seem silly to many, but in my opinion, this is an extremely welcome addition and the most unD&D things that Magic has. It does provide genuine utility both in downtime and in adventuring situations, and I definitely can see why some wizards would… Read more

Happy Halloween! I’ve taken some time away from the blog to get my life sorted out, and it’s been sorted out for the foreseeable future, but while I waited, I did some light righting on the side, which of course means I have roughly 50k words of a half-finished supplement sitting on my computer. What … Continue reading "The Revenge of Space Ghost"… Read more

What can I say? I really like the classics. For all your skeletal needs, I present you the Simple Skeleton. Of particular note in this post, there's been some changes to the stat block. It now uses a horizontal layout.Under Defense, the value in parentheses after HP is the value required for a Major Wound. Should I color this yellow, so as to have the same color code of… Read more

Warehouse 23 is doing a sale . . . on mostly Halloween-themed things. One of them is DFRPG Monsters 2. 23% off. Oddly, though, GURPS Zombies is not on sale. Huh. Too bad, it's a keeper! I'd use the horde rules for zombies for my DF game, but my players refuse to defeat foes, they want to destroy each and every single one of them…. Read more

Druidic Spells: Complete Arcane SpellsAnd here we have a bunch of spells from Complete Arcane adapted for druids.Wood Rot is the only druid-exclusive new spell that is a simple corrosion touch attack that only works against wooden objects and plant creatures. Cloud ChariotKeywords: Obvious.Full Cost: 48 points.Casting Roll: None.Components: V, S.Cost: 4 FP + 1 character point to cast, 2… Read more

 The Cast of B-Team (Aersalus)Listens to Ocean aka Osprey (Rory) Halfling Magistrate, mage, healer, priest, historian.Rhum Kaldalsson (Curtis) Minotaur artist.Trapper (Chris D) Gremian, artificer, hunter, Armsmaster.Unit 7 (Brice) A Cog, magical construct golem.NPC'sAltan ru Chuulaii the tax collectorRaitoTesseikai Watersinger, healerMurk the Lurk, spirit crabRelic Recovery(Day after the bandit fight)The group heads out in the late morning after doing some local and personal errands. Rhum struck… Read more

 The Cast of B-Team (Aersalus)Listens to Ocean aka Osprey (Rory) Halfling Magistrate, mage, healer, priest, historian.Rhum Kaldalsson (Curtis) Minotaur artist.Trapper (Chris D) Gremian, artificer, hunter, Armsmaster.Unit 7 (Brice) A Cog, magical construct golem.NPC'sAltan ru Chuulaii the tax collectorRaitoTesseikai Watersinger, healerMurk the Lurk, spirit crabTwo short sessions combined.Marching HomeOn our way back from the farm the group is ambushed by bandits. They start off by almost… Read more

This month, I revisit mythological Greece with The Scourge of Triton, an adventure designed for newer players. (This must be a theme this month, as I recently posted a video on the best starter adventures for Call of Cthulhu!). There’s lots of debate about what makes a great starter adventure. Veteran roleplayers like myself probably […] The post Great Starter Adventures – The Scourge of… Read more

Foundry & Forge were a problem in our last game session. We had some of the usual – slowdowns, occasional drops and hangups, etc. The usual network issues. That's typical. – There has been a change since a few sessions back with dragging and dropping damage onto a token. The bounding boxes seem to be too large – if I drop damage onto a character,… Read more

Wizardry: Complete Arcane Spells IXIt's time to finish this book.Transmute Rock to Lava transforms merely one hex of rock to lava. This still has a potential to deal a lot of damage, but the dissipation rate from the center is fast, and the duration is very long.Unluck doesn't afflict the target with Unluckiness, but prevents it from using Luck and gives a -1 penalty to most rolls…. Read more

Here are some rules and rulings from last session. "15: You strain your shoulder!" Ah, the most hated of all critical miss results. My players comment? "There should be a clerical way to speed up the healing of the 30 minute cripple from the Critical Miss Table." I agree; it's Instant Restoration. I'm sure they meant cheaper, faster, and easier. But no, it's a cripple,… Read more

Wizardry: Complete Arcane Spells VIIIResonating Bolt is a sonic line attack spell.Ring of Blades surrounds you with a ring of orbiting blades.Secret Signs is actually a pretty cool spell. It allows you to transmit a message non-verbally, but is more limited than proper telepathy.Sign of Sealing creates a magical explosive lock on a door or object.Sphere of Ultimate Destruction… Read more

This article is part of a series! Click here to see the other entries. Before I launch into a description of the big dungeon raid in this adventure, I think it’s useful to go over some background information. Barzilai’s Desperation Move As we say back in the background for Adventure 01, Barzilai’s scheme to become a genius loci will only work exactly as planned if… Read more

This is a continuation of the previous session. Real Date: 10/20/2024      Game Date: 9/18/2024 Weather: Sunny, warm. Characters Chop, human cleric (301 points)      Harold, human guard      Samual, human guard Duncan Tesadic, human wizard (300 points) Hannari Ironhand, dwarf martial artist (316 points) Thor Halfskepna, human knight (306 points) Vladimir Luchnick, dwarf martial artist (266 points) We started off in the middle of a fight, with… Read more

Wizardry: Complete Arcane Spells VIIOtiluke's Dispelling Screen creates a barrier that dispels any magical effect that crosses it.Pain is a weak and relatively cheap debuff.Poison Needles is a high RoF spell that deals minor piercing damage and follow-up toxic damage.Prismatic Ray is a beam attack with a random damage type.Programmed Amnesia is basically identical to… Read more