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[PK]

Originally Posted by mook

With just a few hours left to support the first-ever "Powered by GURPS" Kickstarter (have you checked it out? SO much Dungeon Fantasy!), Steve Jackson Games was kind enough to share an exclusive sample spell for it.

Check out the Land Mine spell, brought to you only by Game Geekery!

I'm really, really looking forward to the release of this box set. Can't wait!

Heh, thanks for posting this -- I actually didn't know where Land Mine was showing up until you did so! :)

[(E)]

I did the quiz at 3.30 am and scored accordingly. 15/30.

[mook]

Originally Posted by PK

Heh, thanks for posting this -- I actually didn't know where Land Mine was showing up until you did so! :)

My pleasure! It's a cool spell, and I like the way it's written up.

So happy this KS did so well.

[mook]

Spiffing Up The Place a bit this weekend, love to hear what you think of the new look.

[Celti]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

22/30; I've never bothered to memorize the SSR or the thr/sw damage tables.

i never bothered to literally memorize the tables — instead I memorized the patterns/formulas. SS/R is 1-1.5-2-3-5-7-10, and starts at +0 is 2. Damage is +1/2 levels for thr, +1/level for sw, and starts at 0d+2 (or actually 1d-2, but the progression is a little funny at ST 10) and 1d (with a progression of dice-and-adds of (n)d, (n)d+1, (n)d+2, (n+1)d-1, (n+1)d). Then I just count from there wherever I need to (keeping in mind the hand shortcuts of ±6 is one order of magnitude for SS/R, and ±4 or ±8 being ±1d for sw and thr.

I found the quiz pretty nifty — the only questions I bombed were the one on the Chase rules from Action 2, and Technical Grappling. I haven't used the former ever (or even read them in a few years, I think), and the latter I'm still getting a grasp on. 28/30 isn't bad, though.

[mook]

Greetings, Folks!

As it's almost Halloween, today's thoughts are on running horror one-shots for the holiday, especially to corral in those non-gamers in your life who you just know would fall in love with tabletop RPGs if they just gave it a try.

People love getting into the spooky spirit, they want to be scared and take a walk on the dark side. Seize that opportunity with a game tailored to the kind of horror they enjoy most and show 'em what they're missing.

"Scooby-Doo" to "Saw," "The Thing" to "Something Wicked This Way Comes"... round up some players and have your own frightfest!

Also, I set up an unofficial Discord channel for GURPS last week, and it has been growing by leaps and bounds. If hanging out and chatting about GURPS -- rules, characters, tips, whatever -- is your idea of fun, just click that link and head on in. All are welcome, and Discord is super easy to use. Hope to see you there!

[mook]

Happy GURPSDay and almost-Halloween!

In today's post, besides another status update on the unofficial GURPS Discord server (short version: it's great and growing, come on in!), I outline a basic system of three random tables for quickly generating a Halloween-ish game.

Clearly, this is not going to spit out a full adventure with notes and stats and pre-made characters. It will, though, hopefully give your brain a little poke if you find yourself surrounded by bored gamers this Halloween and want to slap together a quick one-shot to kill a few hours. If you pair the basic adventure with Quick-Start Character Creation, you can get to playing in no time*!

* Disclaimer: reading my blog will not break the rules of space and time for you... it will still, in fact, take some time, just much, much less.

Suggestions for improvement and/or tales of how your own Halloween games went are definitely wanted! I hope you have some spooky gaming goodness this weekend.

[Joe]

Originally Posted by mook

* Disclaimer: reading my blog will not break the rules of space and time for you.

Disappointing, Mook. Very disappointing.

[mook]

Originally Posted by Joe

Disappointing, Mook. Very disappointing.

I am working on it, but no promises!

[mook]

Happy GURPSDay, all!

Today I write a bit about a super useful and free program called Inspiration Pad Pro, which allows you to create your own random tables with a minimum of muss and fuss.

As an example, I automated the tables from last week's post on Random Horror Gaming, so you can generate five results at a time with just a mouse click. It's a great program, I hope you find it useful.

Also, so many great things were happening this week in GURPS (the Discord chat community, the GURPS Calculator, and the Dungeon Fantasy line) that I made a quick second post to make sure you didn't miss out!

Enjoy the GURPS bounty this week as we slide on into the weekend.