Just got Pyramid Vol. 2 and... anyone want to share their favorite articles?

[Michael Thayne]

I got into GURPS in, I think, 2010? So I've never had access to Pyramid Vol. 2, even though I periodically see articles from it cited on the forums and me left unable to go read them. Now SJGames is selling the HTML archive, and I am so excited but there's over 7000 articles and OMG WTF do I start? So I'd really appreciate it if people could share their favorites.

[thorr-kan]

Ken Hite's Suppressed Transmissions. Specifically, the Halley's Comet columns. Ultra specifically, the Eighteen Years of the Comet column.

For reference, the full archive is being offered here:
https://warehouse23.com/products/pyr...eee114f6&_ss=r

(Aside: I've mixed feelings about this. I have the full archive, downloaded when it was available for subscribers, and I just haven't had a chance to do anything with it. I like being one of the few to have access to this. On the other hand, it's SJG's stuff. I fully realize they can do with it as they wish. On the gripping hand, if this is complete-complete, maybe spending the money to buy it saves me time and frustration...I am, as the saying goes, on the horns of a dilemma.)

[ericbsmith]

Originally Posted by thorr-kan

On the gripping hand, if this is complete-complete, maybe spending the money to buy it saves me time and frustration...I am, as the saying goes, on the horns of a dilemma.)

This archive is complete compete. All the images, all the hyperlinks, even the weekly issue landing pages are there looking exactly like it did two decades ago. Even if you have the old archive, this new one is a huge improvement and worth the money if only for the organization it brings to the archive. The only thing it really lacks is the search function, but you do get a spreadsheet and webpage with all of the articles listed, and since you get the HTML files you can use all sorts of external programs to search through the articles.

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by ericbsmith

This archive is complete compete. All the images, all the hyperlinks, even the weekly issue landing pages are there looking exactly like it did two decades ago. Even if you have the old archive, this new one is a huge improvement and worth the money if only for the organization it brings to the archive. The only thing it really lacks is the search function, but you do get a spreadsheet and webpage with all of the articles listed, and since you get the HTML files you can use all sorts of external programs to search through the articles.

Ze horns of Ze Dilemma getting Sharper...

I am assuming this lacks the d20 Magazine archives.

[Celjabba]

Thanks a lot for telling me this is now available !!!

[ericbsmith]

Originally Posted by thorr-kan

I am assuming this lacks the d20 Magazine archives.

Near as I can tell that's included and complete, though I never really read the d20 articles when they were new. It looks like it has the bi-weekly issue landing pages and all of the articles from July 3 2002 through May 28 2003, plus all of the d20 articles that appeared in the weekly Pyramid issues. The d20 in the corner even rolls a random number for you, which I assume it did when the zine was new.

It also has all of the Pyramid Volume 1 articles that were digitized and posted as well.

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Michael Thayne

So I'd really appreciate it if people could share their favorites.

S.E.Mortimer did a series of very good articles on things like what horses can do, what proper trail rations consist of, and the like.

[J. Edward Tremlett]

I hear some weirdo did a bunch of Call of Cthulhu and All Flesh Must Be Eaten articles that might be of some interest.

No idea who that was, though (Termite? Trumbull? Something like that)



;)

[corwyn]

Originally Posted by ericbsmith

This archive is complete compete. All the images, all the hyperlinks, even the weekly issue landing pages are there looking exactly like it did two decades ago. Even if you have the old archive, this new one is a huge improvement and worth the money if only for the organization it brings to the archive. The only thing it really lacks is the search function, but you do get a spreadsheet and webpage with all of the articles listed, and since you get the HTML files you can use all sorts of external programs to search through the articles.

I have the archive but this is looking very tempting.

[corwyn]

I really like the John Wick (the game writer, not the death machine) articles "Life is Hard, Get a Helmet". Includes a suggestion for using Vader as a good guy and my favourite supers anecdote of all time.