Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Unknown Armies - UK?

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As anyone who have had come into contact with Unknown Armies probably know, it's known to be a very American game. Not only is the Occu...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Rethinking the spear trap

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Inspired by the table (I rolled a 5) I suddenly realized that on way to make the old chestnut, the spear trap, interesting would be to have...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

An addition to the wiki - shields

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I guess most of you have heard of the wiki by now? It's a very handy collection of some of the best contributions in the blogging commu...

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...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

What do we do when we play?

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I remember seeing this a short while back, and I saved the quote. Well put, well put indeed. We don't explore characters; we explore du...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Why aren't there any good rules for martial arts??

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Since I'm a practitioner myself, and since I have been on a kung-fu movie spree of late, I've started to wonder why there are no rul...
Monday, March 7, 2011

[DragonQuest] Shields will be splitered!

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I found this reading DragonQuest yesterday: [18.3] Grievous Injury may result if the successful Strike Check is 5% or less of the Modified ...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

How to get XP

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Today I read a short note about a groovy house rule, where you got XP for inflicting and receiving hits. Only. (I wonder where that link is...

Some thoughts on character empowerment house rules

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Today I read this blog post, about Gary Gygax's house rules for D&D. Reading that I was thinking back to how the rules for T&T ...
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...