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The Guns of Psi-Wars
I'm pretty sure I've banged on about this before, but I've made an effort to include more alien races in Psi-Wars (there will be a post on that soon) and I've been exploring the alternate tech of alien...
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Generic Space Opera Bestiary: Space Whale
You thought I was done! But no, I had a few more I wanted to do. I’ve just been distracted by yet more aliens, and these take longer to write than I expected (most of it in the variations).One I’ve...
View ArticleWiki Highlight: Aliens!
My, I posted a lot less in December than I thought! Most of my attention has been on the wiki, and I wanted to finish up the basic alien templates, so people have at least something to work with....
View ArticleGURPS Action: How Balanced is BAD?
As an alternative to detailed modifiers, the GM can set a sin- gle difficulty – the Basic Abstract Difficulty (BAD) – that covers all aspects of a particular phase of the adventure. This is simply a...
View ArticleGURPS Action: How Balanced are BAD Guys?
At the GM’s option, henchmen without character sheets have an effective skill of 10 + absolute value of BAD: 11 at -1, 12 at -2, and so on. As with all BAD things, this is abstract. Actual skill,...
View ArticleMigration Woes: Mailanka's Musing is Suspended
My apologies for being behind on my "the State of Psi-Wars" post, and pretty much everything else, as "vacation" has been rather intense this year. But I tried to use the time to finally migrate the...
View ArticleFive Years of Psi-Wars
It's a new year, so time for a new retrospective!Oh, and yes, I did get my Wordpress Blog unsuspended. I'm debating whether it's worth leaving it there. On the one hand, it's all already there. On...
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Generic Space Opera Bestiary: Mega Predator
We like big space monsters, and we cannot lie. The Tyrannosaurus Rex fills the minds of children with a terrified glee because monsters are real, and we never really lose that. I suspect few...
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Generic Space Opera Bestiary: the Space Dragon
So, we have our space megapredators, but they don’t seem exactly like dragons, do they? They’re massive and they’re terrifying, but are they dragons? We could be more explicit with our dragons,...
View ArticleGeneric Space Opera Bestiary: the Parasite
Generic Space ParasiteI’ve done most of this series based on real world creatures and while this one is no exception, this was more driven by my curiosity for the sorts of creatures I don’t often...
View ArticleWiki Highlight: Slaver Cartels
I've been hard at work on the Umbral Rim and the organizations, technology and monsters native there. I've finally worked out detail on the Slaver Empire and the sort of organizations the Slavers, aka...
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Generic Space Opera Bestiary: Carnivorous Plant
The carnivorous plant litters the bestiaries of fantasy and space opera gaming, likely due to its association with early 20th century adventure fiction, from which nearly all RPGs eventually draw their...
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The Million Year Man
You arrive, as planned, to the base of Mount Everest with your friend. After a brief interaction with the locals and settling your mountaineering plans, the two of you begin your long trek higher up...
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Organizing the Psi-Wars Organizations
So, I paused my grand Umbral Rim rollout to write up some basic corporations, because I've noticed people sometimes ask questions about them and I have those answers and it would be nice if they were...
View ArticleMook has Passed Away
If you're on the forums or on the GURPS Discord, you've likely already heard that the author of How to GM GURPS, the creator of the GURPS Discord server and fellow Blogger William "Mook" Wilson passed...
View ArticlePsi-Wars Wiki Highlight: February Progress Report
As usual, I've neglected the blog in favor of the wiki and the discord, as I tend to get a lot of immediate feedback on the discord (plus I'm winding this blog down as I prep to move it to Wordpress,...
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Why is Psi-Wars Armor So Heavy?
Mavrick pointed out on the Discord that Psi-Wars armor seems a bit heavy for its description, and asked why this was.Generally speaking, Psi-Wars matches Ultra-Tech pretty closely, assuming a...
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Migration and Mothballing
Mailanka's Musings is moving! I've already migrated my blog posts over to the new location at wordpress:mailanka.wordpress.comI've wanted to get away from Google for awhile, and this was my last tie....
View ArticleWordpress Update
It's been the first full month of Wordpress. If you haven't transitioned, here's what you might have missed!A Backer-Only Post on my Pitfighting Document (Streetfighting as Power-Ups)Scope Creep and...
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