We didn’t have enough people to run Majestic Wilderlands today, so we yakked a bit about magic items and game design. One thing that came up was a rules variant, based on the “you got your GURPS in my D&D” concept. But not even really that. The basic philosophy was that of the OSR and…
I got to thinking: How did the Standard Array come about? I figured they did some sort of simulation. Take 4d6, drop lowest, sort them in order, and take the mean, median, or mode of each row. I wondered, though – what that would look like, and how much variation would there be. I mean,…
SJG published GURPS Social Engineering: Back to School not long ago. I’m a credited playtester, and one thing I can tell you about the playtest was that it was . . . lively. I’ve not yet reread the draft since it was published, though that’s on my to-do list. The book does tackle one of…