Template Highlight: the Bounty Hunter
So, I had a poll running on Patreon about which template you guys would like me to wikify next, with a focus on "Rim" templates, though this highlighted to me just how few of the original Rim templates...
View ArticleNPC Highlight: Chet Starbeam and his Blazers
Chet StarbeamThe Design DiaryI'm not usually a fan of pre-generated NPCs, as I generally prefer to make bespoke campaigns with my own particular NPCs. I have noticed, though, that people do make use...
View ArticleWiki Highlight: Bounty Hunter Lodges
As I was working on Bounty Hunters, I thought about organizations that might support them. Star Wars has its Bounty Hunter Guild, but I wanted more possible variety than that. In principle a bounty...
View ArticlePsi-Wars Monstrous Preview -- The Horrors of the Flesh: the Gaunt
While working on the Saruthim, I had to construct the things with they fought and defeated. I already had "Gaunt monsters" from back in Iteration 6, but I wanted to update them for Iteration 7. Alas,...
View ArticleGames I Didn't Run: Calmquist's One Shot: Part 1
I love it when people other than me run a Psi-Wars game. I hear rumors of most, whispers and questions, but sometimes, someone will straight-up tell me about a session, and when I get very lucky,...
View ArticleGames I didn't Run: The Calmquist Chronicles Part 2: the Rise of Xakkar!
A continuation of yesterday's gripping tale!Note: Session 2 was abbreviated and ended in a big cliffhanger, so the two sessions are reported to gether.The FoesAstanya Xakkar the DarkAstanya Xakkar is...
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Metabarons, Incal and other Jodorowski Works on Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle is running a special on Humanoids comics right now. You can pick up quite a lot of the Jodorowski-verse for slightly less than $13. I bring it up because someone once compared my work...
View ArticleGames I Didn't Run: The Calmquist Chronicles Finale: the End of the Galaxy
This is the final installment of Calmquist's one shot. I've gone back through and put some links up in places so you can get more insights into what he's talking about, though he notes in his final...
View ArticleThe State of the Blog (and its future): August 2019
I've lost some Patrons recently to two things, both of which I feel I need to address. I'd also like to talk about some decisions I've made about how I'm going to handle content moving forward, as...
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Review: GURPS Magic: the Least of Spells
As I perused Warehouse 23 one day, I noticed this little gem had popped up: GURPS Magic: the Least of Spells. Without thinking, I ordered it (I perhaps should have waited until the Backerkit survey...
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Reminder: Backer Poll on the Fourth Bounty Hunter Lodge
Whenever I introduce a new faction, I like to run a Backer poll on it too. Once the poll is done, I'll cobble together the results, and turn them into a faction that is present in the setting....
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The GURPS PDF Challenge Reviews: Tricked Out Rides
So, in the beginning of July, Warehouse 23 ran a Kickstarter, the "2020 PDF Challenge" which included 12 PDFs. I'm going to try to review all twelve (in the order they were released). If you missed...
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The GURPS PDF Challenge Reviews: The Incense Trail
Continuing my reviews of all the GURPS PDF Challenge, we move on to Hot Spots: the Incense Trail. By Matt Rigsby, one of my readers commented "It's Matt Riggsby, of course it's going to be good," and...
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GURPS PDF Challenge Reviews: GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Spaceship Crew
Following the unlock order of the PDF challenge, we come now to Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew, which turns out to be exactly what it says on the tin.The book is split into two parts (nout counting...
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Wiki Highlight: Maradonian Technology
Psi-Wars has three major branches of humanity. The branch from whence came the psychic elites and space knight aristocracy were the descendants of the war torn Maradon and their hero, the brutal...
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The GURPS PDF Challenge Review: DF Adventures 3: Deep Night and the Star
The fourth PDF to unlock in the GURPS PDF Challenge was Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star.Now, this one leaves me at a disadvantage. Yes, I've played Dungeon Fantasy, though no more...
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GURPS PDF Challenge Reviews: How to GM: Ritual Path Magic
Even before we start, this book comes at two disadvantages. First, its title starts with the letter "H" rather than "G" which messes with my alphabetical ordering of my folder. Second, I don't use...
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GURPS PDF Challenge Review: The Broken Clockwork World
There's a frustrating element to reviewing these, in that I can find some on SJGames and get a shot of their covers, and some I cannot. This is one I cannot.Let's do the TL;DR first. Hey, do you like...
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GURPS PDF Challenge Review: Reign of Steel: Read the Sky
Next in our series, we come to Reign of Steel: Read the Sky, an adventure for Reign of Steel, a GURPS setting about a post-apocalyptic world conquered by murderous, super-intelligent AI.The executive...
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GURPS PDF Challenge Review: Monster Hunters Encounter 1
8th in our series comes a Monster Hunters book, the second most supported series of campaign frameworks. This is, in essence, an adventure book, but it actually manages to contain not one, but two...
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