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Psi-Wars Gun Fu: the Ten-Thousand Battle Kata: Combat Geometrics and Shineido
Back when I started working on the Frontier Marshal's update, I realized I needed to work on the Way of the Rim, and if I was going to work on the Way of the Rim, I needed to work on the other Blaster...
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Musings on the Psi-Wars Gun-Fu
There's a rule I've noticed about the Psi-Wars Community: if you mess with martial arts, you will get feedback. The community seems to love the martial arts, and investigates the details of the...
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Psi-Wars Wiki Update: Welcome to the Wild Side Edition
Planetary Peril The Survivor BackgroundThe Frontier MarshalWhen I last asked the community for what Template they wanted wikified, they chose the Frontier Marshal. I found that an interesting choice,...
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Brainstorming Cronus
I have an impending playtest wherein we will play a heist in Psi-Wars. This is intended to shake out the civilian/criminal/law enforcement elements of the game, and while I'd like to run it in the...
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The Mogwai: the Techno-Monkeys of the Arkhaian Spiral
Back when I first laid out what sort of aliens I wanted in Psi-Wars, I set out the broader "diagram" of what niches races would fit. The core races, the Eldoth, Keleni and Ranathim all illustrated...
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Backer Poll: the Natives of Kronos
Long ago, the Eldoth conquered the natives of Kronos and burned out their homeworld to create the despair, death and tragedy necessary to fuel an installation of their Deep Engine. The world of...
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Nobody Takes Resist Disease
Quite some time ago, I worked on "Tech Infrastructure" posts for Psi-Wars, small things like how electricity worked or how computers worked. Most of it was in preparation for my stint in GURPS...
View ArticlePsi-Wars Diseases Part 1: The Physical Diseases
Alright, so here's a project I've wanted done for a long time. This likely isn't complete, as there are several diseases I could include here, and when I rework the psychic diseases and finish up my...
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The Natives of Kronos: Poll Results (and one last poll)
Over the last week, my Companions got to vote on what the natives of Kronos would be like. They've made their voices heard, and the results are available for all Fellow Travelers ($3+) Patrons. I've...
View ArticlePsi-Wars Diseases Part II: Psychic Diseases
The prime impetus behind my exploration of medicine wasn't just to determine how technological medicine worked, but how it balanced with esoteric medicine in Psi-Wars. If medicine could cure you of...
View ArticleBacker Poll: The Fourth Mithanna
Yes, even more polls. You guys seem to like them (though if you need a break let me know) and with the Natives of Kronos (the Menhiri) poll finished and their templates and racial information making...
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Psi-Wars Wiki Update: Medicine in Psi-Wars and a new primer!
So, the big announcement is I've updated the landing page of the wiki in a big way. I recently introduced some of my friends to Psi-Wars, and they found it a little difficult to navigate. I wanted to...
View ArticleThe Great Book of Destiny
Two events collided in my life to give birth to this monster project. First, I played Cultist Simulator, which still haunts my dreams with secretive mechanics and the clockwork ticking of the passage...
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Hey Guys, Let's Plan a Heist!
Sorry I've been quiet for the past, what, two weeks? I'm on vacation, which means a lot of time for the kids and, of course, Cyberpunk 2077 came out (No, I haven't experienced any bugs, yes, it's an...
View ArticleThe Fourth Mithna: Mithna Temos
Last month, I released a poll for "the Fourth Mithna." A "Mithna" is a Ranathim noble house and, in keeping with the themes of Lithian culture insisting on being as alien as possible, they must...
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Are Battlesuits Fair?
A perennial question about Ultra-Tech gaming in GURPS is the fairness of demanding a point cost for things people can just have cheaply. Why buy nightvision when you can have nightvision contact...
View ArticleFour Years of Psi-Wars
I began the blog as a way of driving myself to finish some of my setting material and to share my approaches with everyone else. My intention with Psi-Wars was to finish in a year, and I did! But it...
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Keleni Revisited
I've been tinkering a lot behind the scenes on my upcoming playtests and/or campaigns, with more of my focus on my Heist than the Monster Hunter game at the moment. The Heist on Kronos seems an ideal...
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Are Battle Suits Fair: Part 2 -- The Playtest
Last time I asked: Are Battlesuits Fair? Mostly, I approached this question from a theoretical standpoint, you know, how most of us gamers complain that something is unbalanced without actually...
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Are Battlesuits Fair? Part 3 -- Harsh Realism for Battlesuits
So, I've been diving into how "fair" battlesuits are. A problem I always run into when running sci-fi games in Ultra-Tech is that characters in battlesuits are always cooler than people not in...
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