Showing posts with label GURPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GURPS. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Newbie friendly games - using probability

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My last post was inspired by how my friend had a horrendous strike of unluckiness, which made his game nights less than fun. He is after al...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The value of bell curves

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A while back I started talking to some friends about starting up a regular game again. To fill some time, after realizing that it would need...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Using the right tool for the job

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Yesterday I was browsing my collection of game books. Some of them I don't read that often, and almost forgets about. I have a few... ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Thinking back on 7th Sea

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I ran a short arc of a revenge story in AEG's 7th Sea a few years back. The idea of swashbuckling is seldom far from my gaming thoughts...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

A reflection on Rolemaster - tweakablility

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Having been in a conversation about Burning Wheel, a game built very tightly to a specific specification, I think back on how amazingly modu...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Character personality as crunch

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I read a post on The Douchey DM , by Stu from Happy Jacks RPG Podcast . He posts on the topic of whether character personality chould be par...
Friday, March 30, 2012

T&T hacks - a series of rules surgeries

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I took a long hard look at my wall of games. I like those games. Some of them I haven't played in a long while, though. I see why the id...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

RIP Professor Barker

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Professor M A R (“Phil”) Barker died just recently. I was away from home, cramming my head full with new skills for my gong fu, when I frien...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

GURPS through a FATE lens

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I have been thinking about GURPS a lot lately, and it feels like it wont leave my head. GURPS is a very crunchy system, and while I have n...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Another thought on GURPS

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From my last post on GURPS, it seems like there are some interesting things to note about the game. Nobody I've heard, either now or b...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

A thought about GURPS

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As you might now, soem people have tried to assemble lists of what kind of games are "old school" or not. I have no idea if GURPS ...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

An insight into "rules lite" systems

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Yesterday we met for the first real session of 7th Sea, the new game in my "indie Wednesday" group. We had met once before but had...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Mixing two flavour that don't match? - GURPS Dungeon Fantasy

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I have known about this line a while, since I read the Daily Illuminator, but I haven't investigated what it meant. Until now. There...
Friday, November 13, 2009

The deadliness of combat

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I just managed to strike a really good deal on eBay for the old fantasy rpg classic DragonQuest. For some of us it's one of those games ...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Making interesting characters

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I read a good blog post today, which got me thinking about how I generate the characters I play. Our Sunday Group have been playing differ...