[GURPS resources] T Bone's Games Diner updates & announcements

[tbone]

Following some recent activity in this thread to discuss past topics, I should probably attend to the thread's main function as well: an updating of what's new on the site.

The following may look like pretty ambitious output, but that's two and a quarter years of additions since the last update here. (Like everyone, I get to blame slowness on the pandemic.)

New resources

• GURPS/DFRPG resource: New technique-based advantages: As in, techniques bought to max level, as quickie advantages. I like these.
• GURPS resource: ST Monster Table: One table with all the ST-related stuff. Too much stuff.
• STROLL: ST rolls that work in GURPS: A dead-simple way to make all ST-based rolls, Contests, and skills work properly. Of everything listed here, I'd say this is the most immediately useful tool for any GM.

Stuff for fantasy thieves

• A mini review: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Thieves: Not-quite-a-spoiler: If you play DF with thieves, you'll get use from this book.
• Dumping out the loot sack: More rules and tools for GURPS Dungeon Fantasy thieves: Some ready-to-use stuff, some unfinished ideas. Rifle through it to nick whatever looks valuable.

New musings and experiments

• Game design musing: Swing vs thrust damage: What’s the difference? (GURPS): No silly "you should do this" prescriptions, just a look at how much the two damage stats actually differ, with and without weapons in hand.
• Game design musing: Simplifying ST-based thrust and swing damage (GURPS): Simplify ST-based dam to a single stat; build the thr-vs-sw damage difference entirely into the weapon instead. Good idea or bad? How would it work at the table?
• Game design musing: Easiest-ever, zero-math “weight-to-power” factor for characters (GURPS): In which I make no suggestion that you should want such a thing - but if you do, there's a ridiculously easy way of setting it, just lying there out in the open.
• Game design musing: Notes on ST in GURPS: Nothing exciting, just thoughts on what sort of Contests work best with ST, how ST differs from other attributes, stuff like that.
• Twelve big pages of “Daily Houserule tweets” collecting a year’s worth of Twitter entries on GURPS and DFRPG. 365 small rules bits, new traits, new kit, GM tips of dubious value, purported simplifications, more.

Miscellaneous arcana

• Unasked-for silliness: Some gaming “humor”: Yes, those are scare quotes.
• What’s interesting about roleplaying games: A few things about the hobby that have long impressed me.
• A notice of what I hope is an improved RSS feed situation, with One Feed to Serve Them All: http://www.gamesdiner.com/feed/ If you've got a site, please place it in your GURPS blogroll!
• Notices of some Kickstarters (now closed).

Updates

• Update to new damage for ST: If you, too, like experimenting with "smooth damage progression" stuff, here's cleaned-up text and a prettier table.
• Update to alternate cost progression for ST: Again, cleaned up text and lovelier tables.
• Update to rules for grazes: An oldie-but-goodie. Cleaned-up text and a simpler basic rule for gaming grazing attacks (plus notes on other ways to game these).
• Lots more new weapons and related notes, more DFRPG Q&A, many more new techniques, several new Talents, and more wishes for books and stuff.
• Many more updates in general, all listed here.

New sidebar features

• A list of recent content edits
• A lo-o-o-ong RSS blogroll of what's new on other GURPS-adjacent sites (let me know of more sites I should add)
• A fair-sized list of GURPS links

Sidebar features no more

• No more @gamesdiner Twitter feed embed; it stopped working. (Gotta pay "X" to embed, I think?)

There, that should hold the non-discriminating reader for a year or two!