Blog: Requires Concentrate -- New Posts

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by weevis

• The Agirul is a swarm of tree sloths with a single distributed consciousness.
• Stickies (my favorite) are statted around the idea of involuntary possession.

They're at: http://reqcon.game.blog/

I liked both.

[weevis]

Originally Posted by Refplace

I liked both.

Thanks!!! It is a minor and very dorky personal GURPS achievement that I can say I have now created a creature who took parts of his own body as a Patron.

(I extrapolated that idea from a GURPS Space suggestion about how to do hive minds.)

[Christopher R. Rice]

Haven't been around much - nose down in the word mines - but welcome to the Brotherhood of Bloggers Who Blog To Much. Decoder Ring is in the mail. :-)

[weevis]

New content:

In the time since my last update:

• I posted a one-page cheat sheet for the GURPS rules called The GURPSICLE, aimed at new players
• I've been fleshing out a system of magic based on heat via the Psionic Powers rules.
• I've also been working out some more campaign setting details for the True Game campaign. That includes finding and writing down all seventy of the power types that appear in the nine Sheri S. Tepper True Game novels. What a pain that was. But it should be a blast of nostalgia for those who have read the series.

They're at: http://reqcon.game.blog/

[Refplace]

I really like your adaptation so far.
Got me thinking of creating a gamesmen profession/class based on powers provided by some Power, perhaps a set of competing deities or ancient rival wizards (perhaps like Urtho and theother guy from the Valdemarr series).

[weevis]

New content -- it was spaceship week on "Requires Concentrate," with an additional week of spaceship-related things to come, as I attempt to bumble through the basic space combat system from GURPS Spaceships.

However the big news is that I've decided to commit to posting daily for a while.

Recent posts:

• Designs for targets for my Space Pirates: Bigger SM+10/SM+11 merchant ships than you usually see in Traveller settings
• Related auxiliary craft, including...
• A lifeboat loadout that I'm very happy with.

[weevis]

There's a bunch of new material posted since my last update at:

Requires Concentrate
https://reqcon.game.blog/

The thing I'm proudest of: I spent hours and hours going through all of the books I could get my hands on and compiling a list of character templates relevant to a GURPS Traveller campaign. It's great that GURPS character design can do anything, but I find it is very useful to give players who are new to tabletop RPGs a list of possible ideas and work from there.

I came up with SEVENTY relevant templates, where 45 of them are likely to be more relevant and familiar ("astronaut", "spy") and the remaining templates are somewhat zany but I bet will spark your creativity ("deep-cover primitive-world observer"). Lists like the GURPS Repository and GURPS Wiki were helpful but just limiting the available choices to just "templates relevant to a GURPS Traveller campaign" is a big help to me. Hopefully it will help someone else!

The relevant posts I'm talking about (although there are other posts):

• Time to Make Characters, People! (A List of 45 Templates Relevant to GURPS Traveller)
• 25 Obscure Sci-Fi Character Ideas (For the Hard-to-Please)

I'd certainly welcome notes on any published templates that I missed. This was a PITA but it has already borne fruit -- a new player chose "deposed planetary ruler."