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Old 10-26-2013, 04:20 PM   #1
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Howdy Folks -

My gaming blog is updated more sporadically than many of the other GURPS blogs, but I did post something this morning on different kinds of things to use for miniatures and tokens, as well as a way of visually tracking shock penalties using the magnetic status markers from Alea Tools:

Streamlining Combat With Tokens.

Enjoy!
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Old 10-26-2013, 04:39 PM   #2
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Excellent! Another member of the forums has joined the Brotherhood of Bloggers Who Talk About Their Blogs Loudly. Welcome, brother, your decoder ring is on its way. ;-)

I rather like how you do your tokens. I do something similar, but use 2D hex tokens instead. I mark them with a dot of a different color and number them. But I like yours better I think.
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Old 02-20-2014, 02:49 PM   #3
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I've not yet posted a recap of the recent OrcCon 2014, but in the meantime I have updated the page for the game I ran twice, GURPS Special Ops, Operation: Needle. Download links are there for the GM sheets I used to run, as well as the complete character packets for the six pre-gens.
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Another quick post about tokens, this time noting how to match colored tokens and dice to speed up large combats.

Essentially, rolling 4 sets of 3d6 in place of a single set to generate multiple results with a single fling!
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Old 09-06-2014, 11:24 AM   #5
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I have updated with a recap of last weekend's super-fun Gateway 2014 convention, including the two GURPS: Bunnies & Burrows games I ran.

I'm also thinking about migrating the entire site to Wordpress (instead of the hodge-podge, old school conglomeration it is now, with Wordpress just handling the blogs), once I feel like I can do so and still have an easy way to display all the current content (particularly the combat examples and the downloads).
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I'm also thinking about migrating the entire site to Wordpress (instead of the hodge-podge, old school conglomeration it is now, with Wordpress just handling the blogs), once I feel like I can do so and still have an easy way to display all the current content (particularly the combat examples and the downloads).
I highly suggest Blogger instead of Wordpress - I switched from Wordpress about a year ago and I've had none of the issues I did with Wordpress. Wordpress was forever crashing on me and making my life miserable with posting.
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I highly suggest Blogger instead of Wordpress - I switched from Wordpress about a year ago and I've had none of the issues I did with Wordpress. Wordpress was forever crashing on me and making my life miserable with posting.
It took me a few minutes to figure out the issue here (because my installation of Wordpress has never crashed on me, ever) -- I think you are talking about wordpress.com, which is similar to Blogger in that the blog is proprietarily hosted by the company.

I'm talking about wordpress.org, which is the "self-hosted" version... that is, I installed it myself and maintain it on a domain that I own, and have never had a single problem with it in many years. I was just talking about maybe using it as the 'engine' for my whole site, instead of just the blog.

As a total aside ... there is another GURPSer on a different message board I frequent also named Ghostdancer, and it wasn't until just this past weekend I realized you are two different people. :)
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It took me a few minutes to figure out the issue here (because my installation of Wordpress has never crashed on me, ever) -- I think you are talking about wordpress.com, which is similar to Blogger in that the blog is proprietarily hosted by the company.

I'm talking about wordpress.org, which is the "self-hosted" version... that is, I installed it myself and maintain it on a domain that I own, and have never had a single problem with it in many years. I was just talking about maybe using it as the 'engine' for my whole site, instead of just the blog.

As a total aside ... there is another GURPSer on a different message board I frequent also named Ghostdancer, and it wasn't until just this past weekend I realized you are two different people. :)
Ahh, you got yours server side. Ah, well then. Carry on. And who is this imposter?!
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Some thoughts on how GURPS and Fate have similar design goals, and GURPS books I've found particularly useful for getting that fuzzy "Fate" kind of feel.
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I've been asked a few times which options from Power-Ups 5: Impulse Buys we use to allow more narrative control for the players -- this post is the answer!
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