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The Hurt Locker: Iron Rations - A Compleat Guide to Victualing in Ye Olde Dungeon, Part II

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/the-hurt-locker-iron-rations-compleat_17.html

S. A. Fisher's second part of his iron rations post is up. Go read it. It's awesome.

The Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter is about 1.3% away from funding. SJ Games has sorted out the shipping to the wonderful land of Oz so if you live in Austrailia and have been holding back because of s...

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The Hurt Locker: Iron Rations - A Compleat Guide to Victualing in Ye Olde Dungeon, Part I

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/the-hurt-locker-iron-rations-compleat.htmlhttp://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/the-hurt-locker-iron-rations-compleat.html

S. A. Fisher delivers an amazing guest post on rations in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. Back when figh...

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Boil and Bubble: Incantation Magic - Mirage Maimer

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/boil-and-bubble-incantation-magic_15.html

Another Dungeon Fantasy Incantation Magic spell adapted from an old school spell.

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Gamemaster's Guidepost: Beyond the Hack n' Slash

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/gamemasters-guidepost-beyond-hack-n.html

Alex Raymond talks about Dungeon Fantasy into today's blog post.

Interested in helping me flog the blog (i.e., writing a guest post)? Give me a shout out and I'll set something up. Continued thanks to all of those who've done their flogging. I still have room for a one or two more folks.
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The Hurt Locker: Fusion-Powered Chainsaw

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/the-hurt-locker-fusion-powered-chainsaw.html

Look, it's a Fusion-Powered Chainsaw. Why? I don't know. Because reasons. And it's awesome.

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Boil and Bubble: Incantation Magic - Rainbow Spray

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/boil-and-bubble-incantation-magic.html

Continuing to Flog the Blog, Today I present a new spell for Dungeon Fantasy: Incantation Magic. Ye Olde Dungeon Spell from That Other Game with the serial numbers filed off. A "Rainbow Spray" if you will.

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Gamemaster's Guidepost: What Makes Dungeon Fantasy Special, Part II

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/gamemasters-guidepost-what-makes_11.html


Antoni Ten Monros (my oft-times co-author) continues to talk about what makes Dungeon Fantasy so special compared to other systems or games.

Blah blah blah Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter why haven't you pledged blah blah blah You won't even notice this most likely because it's become secon...

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Gamemaster's Guidepost: What Makes Dungeon Fantasy Special, Part I

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/gamemasters-guidepost-what-makes.html

Continuing to Flog the Blog, Today is an excellent post by my estimable and oft-times co-author Antoni Ten Monros. Toni talks about what makes Dungeon Fantasy so special compared to other systems or games.

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Designer's Notes: Dungeon Fantasy 19 - Incantation Magic

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/designers-notes-dungeon-fantasy-19.html

Today my first ever RPG book has been published (you can find it here: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/gurps-dungeon-fantasy-19-incantation-magic - so go buy a copy!). I...

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Carpe Blogiem: It's not you Dungeon Fantasy, It's Me

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/carpe-blogiem-its-not-you-dungeon.html

Continuing my "Flog the Blog" for the Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter, Travis Ellis aka Mr. Insidious talks about his experience with Dungeon Fantasy - or lack thereof.

Interested in helping me flog the blog (i.e., writing a gust post)? Give me a shout out and I'll set something up. Continued thanks...

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August Patreon Special #2 - The Hurt Locker: Dungeon Fantasy Duelists

Wanna be awesome? Use an awesome weapon. Wanna be twice as awesome? Use twice the number of swords! (I guess that means Coleopteran are four times as awesome and can only be countered by Peshkali who are SIX times as awesome.) Today's post is about using two weapons at the same time.

(I've spread out the Patreon posts a bit - but still on schedule! On or before the 5th my lovely Patrons)

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Gamemaster's Guidepost: Dungeon Fantasising

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/gamemasters-guidepost-dungeon.html

Continuing my "Flog the Blog" for the Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter, Hal Batty aka the talented "Wavefunction" talks about Dungeon Fantasy and why he's never been able to get a game up...but also how useful the DF material is for other games.

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GURPS101: Dungeon Fantasy Sharpshooters

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/gurps101-dungeon-fantasy-sharpshooters_81.html


A guest post by our very own GodBeastX aka Merlin Avery on Dungeon Fantasy sharpshooters!


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GURPS101: Ethical Axes for Dungeon Fantasy

Whew! The Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter is half funded and it's day #2. Hell, to the hell yeah. But that's not slowing my Patreon down. Today I talk about "Ethical Axes" and how to work them into your Dungeon Fantasy campaign.

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Carpe Blogiem: Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter is Now Live

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/09/carpe-blogiem-dungeon-fantasy.html

Everyone else is posting about the kickstarter - so will I.


Also, I'm going to be trying to run DF-inspired material as often as possible on my blog. So if you have an idea for a post on anything DF-related and want to be a guest on my blog hit me up and I'll run it. What a time to be alive!

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The Hurt Locker: Tangler Pistol

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/the-hurt-locker-tangler-pistol.html

So someone asked about how to make a "gloop gun" from the Incredibles on the forums and I got inspired. Here's what I came up with using metatronic generators.

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Aeon A-Team S01E01 - We Are Sentry

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/aeon-team-s01e01-we-are-sentry.html

Notes from my face to face supers game - Aeon the A-Team. The PCs have had two years to get into shape and start their career as heroes when they come across a late night robbery that changes how they view the police department in Crown heights.

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Aeon A-Team S00E02 - When the Towers Fell

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/aeon-team-s00e02-when-towers-fell.html

Notes from my face to face supers game - Aeon the A-Team. The PCs deal with the fall of the Twin Towers, a metahuman-powered terrorist, and much much more.

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Gamemaster's Guidepost: Building Player Characters to the Concept

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/gamemasters-guidepost-building-player.html

Point Budget: Do not try and bend the game to your point budget. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
GM: What truth?
Point Budget: There is no point budget.
GM: There is no point budget?
Point Budget: Then you'll see, that it is not the point budget that bend...

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GURPS101: Illusion-Casting.

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/gurps101-illusion-casting.html

Like my previous advantage deconstructions I talk about the components of Illusion and what modifiers help you do what, while adding a few of my own.

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GURPS101: Injury Resistance

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/gurps101-injury-resistance.html

I share a couple thoughts on a new trait: Injury Resistance and how it might work in GURPS.

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The Hurt Locker: Building an Ambush Point

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/the-hurt-locker-building-ambush-point.html

I ponder on a "micro-rules" system for creating kill boxes and sniper nests.

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July Patreon Special #2 2016: Boil and Bubble - Water Elementalism Magical Style

A new magical style for standard GURPS magic dealing with "water elementalist" and their spellwork.

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July #1 2016 Patron Special: The Hurt Locker - The Rood Blades

Today's blog post is about magical holy swords (but not lightsabers) for use with "The Hunter’s Reliquary”. (They still go "voom! voom!" if you make the right sounds though.)

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Designer's Notes: Above the Law

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/designers-notes-above-law.html

Today is GURPSDay and I deliver some Designer's Notes on my latest Pyramid Offering: Above the Law.


Shameless Plug: Article can be found here (http://www.warehouse23.com/products/pyramid-n...

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GURPS101: Powers Negation and Mimicry

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/08/gurps101-powers-negation-and-mimicry.html

I breakdown Neutralize a bit and talk about how to make power mimics/vampires.

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The Hurt Locker: Spoiled and Rurnt

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/07/the-hurt-locker-spoiled-and-rurnt.html

I ponder the idea of batteries and ammo going bad after the apocalypse.

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The Hurt Locker: Climbing Lines and Auto-Grapnels

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/07/the-hurt-locker-climbing-lines-and-auto.html

Today's Hurt Locker is all about climbing, rope, and being the Goddamned Batman.

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The Hurt Locker: The Dragonslayer from Berserk

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/07/the-hurt-locker-dragonslayer-from.html

The new Berserk anime is out and I thought about how to make Guts' sword in GURPS terms (and big swords in general).

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GURSP101: Long-Term Fatigue and Extra Effort

http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2016/07/gursp101-long-term-fatigue-and-extra.html

What else could the Long-Term Fatigue rules from GURPS After the End be used for? What about Extra Effort...I come up with a few thoughts on doing just this.

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