Side Effect vs Affliction Part II: Should Psi-Wars make Afflictions Cheaper?
So, my previous article on Side Effect provoked some interesting discussion. There's nuance that I missed, and people were kind enough not to call it out directly on the blog (though by all means!),...
View ArticlePsi-Wars diseases as Afflictions
So, awhile back, I introduced an alternate disease system, to make diseases more usable in a more "narrative" game where tracking HP day by day is less interesting. I've been working on psychic...
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More Kronos Musings: History
So, quite some time ago, I announced a playtest, a heist; we did a poll, and Kronos won out. I expect it did so because it's an interesting, alien world set in the midst of an otherwise human...
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Wiki Highlight: Psionic Gear
"Did we ever decide what Psi-Tech was available in Psi-Wars?""It varies from tradition to tradition, from world to world.""Yeah, sure, all technology does that. But, like, what can my psychic...
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More Kronos Musings: Geography
Now that we know something of its history, what does it look like today? I generally don't like "island worlds" though on some level it's unavoidable. Most games can't handle one fully detailed world...
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Wiki Highlight: Psychic Vampirism Power-Ups
I've been pretty busy behind the scenes working on Undercity Noir; the PCs are beginning to come together, but I feel like I'm still behind on a lot of elements. One of those elements was psychic...
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Wiki Spotlight: Hacking in Psi-Wars (with Backer Special Preview)
Hacking has turned out to be much more important than I originally thought it would when I first put together Psi-Wars back in Iteration 1. If you watch Star Wars, or even most Space Opera out there,...
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Buckets of Disadvantages?
We had "session zero" of Undercity Noir, which mostly involved discussing characters and getting a little additional prep-time for me, but part of the discussion turned to Templars and a perennial...
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Assassins: A Backer Roundup
I'm terrible at advertising my Patreon/Subscribestar pages. In part, it's because I'm not really doing this for the money, and I feel like I'm sending around a collection plate every time I post...
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Wiki Highlight: the Psion Template
As one of Christopher Rice's patrons, I can participate in a regular poll where he releases on of his patreon specials to his blog. I really appreciate it, and I thought it might be a nice option to...
View ArticleWiki Highlight: Federation Remnant Culture (Galactic Culture)
The winner of this month's "Release the Balloon People" poll was Federation Remnant Culture, a lengthy document detailing the "standard" Galactic Culture of Psi-Wars.I wanted to write it for a few...
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Backer Post: The Daemons of the Deep Engine
This turned into a longer project than I expected. When I began Undercity Noir, one player wanted to play as a Zathan, a Ranathim Sorcerer, with connections to the Deep Engine, the monumental,...
View ArticleThoughs on the Undercity Noir Playtest after 2 sessions
I apologize for the lack of posting. I've been a bit paralyzed by Undercity Noir's nature. Whenever I run a playtest, I find it dominates my time, because I'm busy fixing the bits that the game is...
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The 2021 GURPS PDF Challenge
Oh good, a thing I can blog about. All the cool kids are doing it!SJGames just unveiled their latest GURPS Kickstarter: the 2021 GURPS PDF Challenge. This looks to be a follow-up on the success of...
View ArticleParabolic Hearing
Parabolic Hearing is dumb.Telescopic Vision is questionable in price to utility. It costs 5 level, and it allows you ignore -1 in vision range penalties per level, and -2 if you "aim" first; each...
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On Paper Men and Disposable Characters
I occasionally peruse Dell'Orto's Dungeon Fantastic; it's good stuff, and he gives me shoutouts and he's still blogging while a lot of my favorite blogs stopped, but a lot of what he discusses isn't...
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Wiki Highlight: Hackers and Bloodsiders
It's been a rough month for my health, and Undercity Noir has dominated my attention, but my blog discipline has been slipping. My apologies for that. Even so, I do have more material on the wiki. In...
View Article"Hey, I didn't know I needed that!"
So, I finished the third session of Undercity Noir a week early, as one of the players couldn't make it on the normal day. We finally met the client and his girlfriend, and the introduction is...
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Patreon Poll: The Phoenix Cluster -- Part I
Are there plans to add parts of the Galactic Fringe to the Atlas, or otherwise add areas of Westerly influence to the setting? I know to some extent it's supposed to be "fill in the blank" But I think...
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GURPS PDF Challenge 2021: Action 8 Twists
I've not been feeling well, and I'm not actually all that excited about the GURPS 2021 challenge, if I'm honest. I said it before and I'll say it again: this is a better model for Pyramid articles...
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