Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerAbout 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…
Barry Strauss has written a very accessible account of the second time the Greeks fought off the Persian Empire. He spends a good amount of time on the background: the Ionian revolt, the general configuration of the Persian court, etc.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sixth FR-series supplement headed east, extending the detail maps of the Forgotten Realms another panel to the east of the original boxed set ones (while jogging slightly south), and hit the eastern edge of the large map in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Book three of Crown of Stars introduces Zacharias as the new viewpoint character to help hold the book together as a separate unit. His story is largely passive, as he follows Sanglant’s mother, who re-enters after her exit in the[…]↓ 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…
The Bloodstone adventure series came to a conclusion with H4 The Throne of Bloodstone in 1988. While nowhere near as elaborate a production as H1, with its thin box, BattleSystem counters and 3D-Adventure buildings, it was still more elaborate than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charles Spenser is certainly correct in his assertion that the Battle of Blenheim is one of the more important battles of history that is not well remembered today. This is more surprising in the English-speaking world since it was an[…]↓ 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…
The second book of Crown of Stars definitely suffers from a fracturing of the plot, with eight different viewpoint characters, most of which get turns from the get-go. Only one of these is a completely new character, and Anna’s story[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…