http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/06/designers-notes-gryndel-menace.html
June's Pyramid is out and guess who got the cover? That's right, me! It's always nice to get the cover, but not required. So have some Designer's Notes to go along with today's release including a new inhuman option for those who have today's issue and GURPS Monster Hunters (especially MH5).
http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/06/gamemasters-guidepost-dungeon-fantasy_16.html
And I'm back. Still feeling a little under the weather, but that'll pass. Today I'm talking about TREASURE! And how to use my "It's a Threat!" article as a way to gauge how much loot your delvers should get. It's not as worked as the old "Treasure Type" rules from AD&D, but might be us...
2015-06-16 18:20:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Guys, I'm sick as hell right now. It's why I didn't post Thursday. I was trying to shake it off...but it's going to take a bit. I'm sorry. I'll try to get back to regular posting by next weekend. Till then, wish me luck.
With Regards,
Christopher
Today's short and crunchy and full of air - it's all about air college spells for the Sorcery system from Pyramid #3/63: Infinite Worlds II by Jason "PK" Levine.
I muse on some things that have been going on in my campaign. Basically, players are WEIRD.
2015-06-03 00:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/gurps101-more-human-than-humans.html
A couple of thoughts on GURPS Monster Hunters Experiments. Basically, they're cool...how can I make them cooler?
http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/melee-academy-feats-of-samson.html
"He was the strongest man that ever had lived on earth.
One day when Samson was walking along,
Looked down on the ground, he saw an old jawbone.
He stretched out his arm, God knows, chains broke like thread,
When he got to moving, ten thousand was dead."
Samson - the origina...
A play report from the vault. http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/sicatra-bloodied-and-banal-game-session.html#.VWSG5M9Viko
2015-05-26 14:41:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I like collecting ideas from the forums for my blog. Sometimes it's from someone who wants to see what I'll do with the topic, other times I openly ask folks what should I wrote about next. Sometimes, I just get my grubby little magpie claws on something I see and run with it. This is one of those times. One of the more common tropes in fiction - the stealer of magic and/or skill thief - is currently modeled with best with Modular Abilities. But what if there was a better (or at least differen...
2015-05-25 02:28:53 +0000 UTC View PostToday’s Gamemaster’s Guidepost is yet another departure from the standard fare I’ve been producing. In fact, it’s a radical from anything I’ve ever posted on my blog. This is something that I’d normally held in reserve for a Pyramid article. But I decided that I have so much already in that grouping that it was time to take a chance. So here it is. A worked (short) campaign example for GURPS Monster Hunters.
2015-05-24 00:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post
My latest from Pyramid is out today - so here's some Designer's Notes. http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/designers-notes-vanishing-sun.html#.VV5hfPlViko
2015-05-21 22:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A session recap from the vault. http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/sicatra-vengeance-for-fallen-game.html#.VVtt0PlViko
2015-05-19 17:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
A few random thoughts about converting a classic form of RPG defense to GURPS. http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/gamemasters-guidepost-you-need-2-or.html#.VVTI9PlViko
2015-05-14 16:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post
An idea I got from the forums and expanded a bit. So how do you treat Will as HP? I have a few thoughts on the matter. http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/gurps101-will-as-hp.html#.VVIt4flViko
2015-05-12 16:42:29 +0000 UTC View PostAnother session recap from the vault. Today's Mother's Day so I'm off to tell She-Who-Spawned-Me how much I love her (hint: it's a lot). http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/sicatra-twisted-vault-game-session-5.html#.VU-F3vlViko
2015-05-10 16:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Monster Hunter techies can always use a boost, so why not allow them to use the rules for Metatronic Generators from Pyramid #3/46: Weird Science? WHY NOT INDEED?! To celebrate the release of GURPS Monster Hunters 5: Applied Xenology here are a few rules you can use for spicing techies up in your Monster Hunter campaign! http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/05/the-hurt-locker-metat...
2015-05-07 18:13:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It don't matter if you're slinging guns or arrows or how outrageous the fortune, if you're in the Frontier your'e gonna need something to protect you. Well, that and a good plot to stop the thieves from stealing that stagecoach full of banknotes...or coming up with a way to steal them yourselves. Outlaws and Arrows was an article for adapting GURPS Action to the western genre that appeared in Pyramid issue #74. Read on if you want to hear about its inception and see a new Action lens... 2015-05-06 00:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
What day is it? Is it time for another blog post? I think it is. Yeah, we're going to go with that. My glucose has been super-wonky and I haven't slept for five or six days straight now. So if this doesn't make sense it's not my fault. OK. Maybe it's my fault, but you can't blame me. OK, you can blame me, but it's really Evil Goatee Me's fault (or am I Evil Goatee Me, but shaved it off?). Where was I? Oh, yeah, Latin, man. Why in the bloody nine hells is Latin the only language people go to for ...
2015-05-03 20:12:11 +0000 UTC View PostToday's Special is all about that ice, 'bout that ice (No, fire!). That's right, being a mage specializing in ice/cold magic you often get a bum rap. "Fire magus can burn things to a crisp!" "Fire magus knows how to heat up tea!" "Fire magus knows how to get the party started with fireworks." Yeah, well ice magus can...uhh...chill the beer! And, err, make ice sculptures... screw the social angle, you make him mad enough ice magus will bring on a second ice age. I mean, don't make him go all Elsa...
2015-05-03 01:19:04 +0000 UTC View Post
"No one plays GURPS near me!" "Maybe try to recruit some people?" "How do I do that? People think GURPS is too mathy!" "Then hide the math and show the fun!" No, seriously. Don't even tell them what you are playing if that helps. Do one of those soda taste tests "Which is better?" "This one! What game is this?" "It's GURPS! Now with less math." Whatever you have to do to get them at the table (well, whatever is legal anyways). Once there I got a small list of things to do that might help. 2015-04-30 17:31:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hive minds are tricky things in any game system, but more so in GURPS it seems. Here are a few thoughts I've had on the subject. Enjoy. http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/04/gurps101-hordes-hives-and-human-minds.html#.VT8bfyFViko
2015-04-28 05:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I found this lurking in the corners of my blog vault...it should have been published a while back. So here is another session report - though this isn't from my current campaign! http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/04/the-chronicles-of-ceteri-given-up-for.html#.VT14PCFVikp
2015-04-26 23:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Some Designer's Notes for my latest Pyramid offering: "Cursed Thou Art." I ended up having to take a ton out after I slimmed its massive word count down from "unpublishable" to "barely publishable." Since I got a blog that just means you get some bonus content for free. :-) Note: If you haven't gotten the latest issue of Pyramid (Pyramid #3/78: Unleash Your Soul - you can find it here: 2015-04-23 22:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, Looks like we've hit the goal where you guys toss out topics for Pyramid articles and I just so happen to be filling my reserves for "ready to go" articles. So what do you want to see me write and submit?
2015-04-23 07:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post
GM's block sucks. It's happened to everyone at one time or another and anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you a bill of goods. But how to get rid of it? Here are some of the methods I've used in the past... http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/04/gamemasters-guidepost-overcoming-gms.html#.VTbOGCFViko
2015-04-21 22:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Another session report from the vault. Back to writing I go - enjoy! http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/04/sicatra-twisted-vault-game-session-4.html#.VTP1QyFViko
2015-04-19 18:33:46 +0000 UTC View Post"And you have my axe!" "...though I need to get it sharpened first." Off to the smithy, heigh-ho! So that was sudden..your PCs were set to go to the Death Mines of Deathy Deathiness, but are making a sudden stop. The orcs that were following them could stop and wait around...or you could have a brawl at the smithy. Whatever you decide, this week's Patreon Special is all about the fantasy smithy (which isn't very realistic, but please, don't get me started). With rules for how much cover DR the w...
2015-04-18 07:17:23 +0000 UTC View Post
What's good enough for Heracles is good enough for you! Well, you don't have to complete all the labors - but that one with the lion doing eating people might be a good one. I take one of mythology's coolest monsters and GURPSfy it. (Note: From now on - and when I have time I'll be adding them to the backlog - the Dungeon Fantasy entries for the Triple Threat will have a calculated CER per the rules from my article "It's a Threat!" in Pyramid #3/77: Combat.) 2015-04-17 03:34:29 +0000 UTC View Post
A quickie post (I'm marshaling my forces from the word mines) about one of my favorite authors on a subject I'm rather fond of. http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/04/book-review-gurps-high-tech-adventure.html#.VSy4i_nF_Cs
2015-04-14 06:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Another session report from the vault. Finally starting to catch up to the current session reports. http://www.ravensnpennies.com/2015/04/sicatra-twisted-vault-game-session-3.html#.VSpq7vnF_Cs
2015-04-12 12:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post