Mailanka's Musings -- GURPS Content Post

[Mailanka]

Today we wind up this datadump with the Smuggler template. Enjoy!

[Mailanka]

It's the last week of Iteration 3, and I've done quite a lot of work which requires quite a lot of retrospective, thus this will be a bit of a heavy week of posting.

Today, I have worked examples of three of the "core" templates:

• Dun Beltain, Space Knight
• Tobin Starlaw, Fighter Ace
• Leylana Grey, Spy

You should already be familiar with most of them, but these include the revisions from the latest templates and, of course, proper equipment lists and spaceships!

[Mailanka]

We continue revisiting old characters, and we add a few new ones!

• Kendra Corleoni: Felinoid Bounty Hunter
• Twee Toolaroo: Sparrial Scavenger
• Jenna Skyrunner: Human smuggler

[Mailanka]

Alright, enough good-guys. Today, we've got some bad-guys!

• Troopers 3.0: Whom you're likely well-familiar with, now, but now taking advantage of the more detailed combat-rules.
• Battle-Bots 1.0: If we have robots, we should work out how they play on the battlefield!

[Mailanka]

Happy GURPS Day! Today, I finish off Iteration 3 with a one-two punch.

First, I offer the Iteration 3 Playtest. I had to tackle quite a broad swatch of rules, including non-combat technicals, combat (including robots and non-robots), and spaceships. The result was a 9,000 word monster! Read if you wish, otherwise, skip to the cliffnotes of...

The Iteration 3 Playtest Notes, which discuss what worked and what still needs to be fixed.

[Mailanka]

When my Iterations complete, I like to post a retrospective on them, including a link to a single place with all the gameable notes, so you don't have to wade through lots of posts to run Psi-Wars, if that's what you want to do.

The retrospective is here
The notes are here

[Mailanka]

Happy GURPS Day! Today, I have the kickoff for Iteration 4: Powers and Martial Arts. I discuss how I want to handle it, and what the coming weeks will look like.

[Mailanka]

I wrote a GURPS Blog post for you, personally. You know who you are, and you know you know a lot about GURPS, and I'd like to read it. We all would. So, I'm echoing Cole's May challenge, and offering you some advice on how to get started.

[Mailanka]

Alright, back to our regularly scheduled Psi-Wars. Today, I kick off a four-part series on the Force as Psionic Powers. Today, I look at why Psionic Powers may or may not be the best fit and lay out how I'll tackle it over the next week.

[Mailanka]

Continuing my look at the Force as Psionic Powers, I take a look at the big three Psionic Powers: ESP, Telepathy and Psychokinesis, including which abilities best fit the Star Wars milieu and what ~50 points worth of each Psionic Power might look like for the Psionic Space Knight