This is the third installment of ten spells to go with my Dungeons & Sorcery system for GURPS. This time, they’re based on a mix of 1st and 2nd level AD&D spells. Blindness (C) Phantasm, Verbal, Resisted (HT) 42 points/level[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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For the past little while, Pseudonym has been posting various Pokemon moves as GURPS Sorcery spells whenever he gets stuck for something else to say. Along with Smudge’s continuing Pokemon Go adventures, and now the both of us playing the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another set of ten spells adapted from AD&D to add to my Dungeons & Sorcery system for GURPS. I’m still concentrating on 1st Level spells, though more of these are from Unearthed Arcana/2e Players Handbook, and branch out into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a follow-up to my previous Dungeons & Sorcery post, with ten more spells converted from AD&D for use with GURPS Sorcery. As with any Powers write-up, these are easy enough to convert to use in some other power[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
About a year after the release of GURPS Thaumatology: Sorcery, it got its first dedicated supplement in August 2016: GURPS Sorcery: Protection and Warning Spells. This is a relatively small PDF supplement (15 pages, including the obligatory cover page and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How to deal with social interactions in a role playing game is often a difficult subject. In many games, truly inspired ideas (of whatever type), should just work, and having a die roll interfere with some good improv acting just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another magic system for GURPS. This one has the goal to get some of the feel of old-fashioned D&D into GURPS. This not quite a complete system, as it should include rules for a character to create a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little while back Chris Rice presented an idea for a new GURPS magic system on his blog. His main goal was to use the ‘long-term fatigue’ idea from GURPS: ATE. Naturally, it immediately gave me an idea that didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GURPS Powers: Enhanced Senses is an interesting project. Technically, it looks at all the possibilities for perceiving the universe, and shows how to represent them in-game by re-packaging the existing abilities. In actuality, it mostly limits itself to what is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As GURPS initially evolved, a few different subsystems started getting added on to the core attribute-advantage-skill package. One of the very early ones was the magic system in GURPS Fantasy that added spells as a complex series of skills with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…