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Hello, I am a Game Master (GM) and I like to over-prepare. This is a fan blog that collects my homebrew material about running tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) using the Generic Universal RolePlaying System (GURPS). If you’re not familiar with this stuff, check out a definition of tabletop role-playing. GURPS,…Continue reading “About This Blog”

4Aug 20201 Aug 2020

Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew REVIEW: It’s a Pass

I’m obviously a huge fan of GURPS and sci-fi spacefaring is my main bread-and-butter gaming setting right now. So I…

28Jul 202019 Jul 2020

New Disadvantage: Marked by a Healer

In the Healer template, the idea of the Healer’s Mark was explained (and knowledge of it was also added as…

27Jul 202027 Jul 2020

Character: Augustine Gann, Healer — Friend to the Finest People, Fond of the Finest Things (200 points)

This is a sample character demonstrating the Healer template. Healer Gann In a land where few gamesman grow old, Healer…

Land of the True Game

Template: Healer

19 Jul 202023 Jul 2020

This blog is back from a very long hiatus that I'm not going to say more about. Instead I'll celebrate (happy to be back!) with another contribution to The Land…

Character: James Jameson, Assassin (150 points)

13 Aug 201912 Aug 2019

Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I’m posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I made them for my…

Rules

Incompetence vs. Delusional Competence (Rules Nitpick)

Super minor thing that I'm noting here. I love the GURPS Power-Ups 6: Quirks book but I just noticed that the write-up distinguishing "Delusional Competence" from "Incompetence" is a little…

Daily Posts Didn’t Work

Well, I didn't make it. As you may recall, I thought I would switch to blogging every day as I was basically doing that anyhow. I lasted seven weeks, but…

Land of the True Game

Tybalt of Stonemarsh, Elator — The Proud, Nerdy Assassin (200 points)

1 Aug 201922 Jul 2020

This is a sample character demonstrating the use of the Elator template. Tybalt of Stonemarsh When Tybalt came to his talent, it was a huge relief to him. They say…

Land of the True Game

Template: Elator (Teleportation)

31 Jul 201931 Jul 2019

I hope that last string of space pirates was useful to you! Now back to the Land of the True Game for a change. Writing these templates is hard work!…

Robot Hireling: Gort, Engineering Bot (35 points)

30 Jul 201917 Jul 2019

This robot is useful as an NPC hireling to have on hand if no one wants to buy the engineering skills necessary to the story. Combined with Zak (another NPC…

Robot Ally/Pet: Eight Ball (150 points)

29 Jul 201929 Jul 2019

This is Archie's homemade robot companion. See Archie's write-up for more details about the back story of this character. Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character…

Character: Gainesville Bob, Minister and Grifter (150 points)

28 Jul 201922 Jul 2019

Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I'm posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I…

Character: “Boom-Boom” Anacusis: Ex-Soldier, Heavy Weapons (150 points)

27 Jul 201922 Jul 2019

Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I'm posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I…

Character: Mahaena Papeete, Hacker-Ninja (150 points)

26 Jul 201922 Jul 2019

Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I'm posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I…

Character: Lady Triticale, Merchant Antiquarian (150 points)

25 Jul 201922 Jul 2019

Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I'm posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I…

Character: Freddy Jupiter: Hotshot Pilot, Smuggler, Dirtbag (150 points)

24 Jul 201922 Jul 2019

Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I'm posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I…

Character: Dr. David Bremerton, Ex-Military Medico (150 points)

23 Jul 201922 Jul 2019

Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I'm posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I…

Deeps of Lyrae: Campaign Roadmap

22 Jul 201912 Aug 2019

Welcome to The Deeps of Lyrae Campaign: In the far future, humanity has invented a jump drive, conquered the stars, and forged them into an almost inconceivably large interstellar empire.…

Character: Bertor Macmillan, Belter and Geologist (150 points)

22 Jul 201917 Jul 2019

Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I'm posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I…

Character: Archie Sparks, Boy Genius Roboticist (150 points)

21 Jul 201929 Jul 2019

I'm switching gears here to the Deeps of Lyrae campaign, and I'm going to put up a set of completed characters over the next few posts. I made them for…

Land of the True Game

Character: Princess Alba, Ruler — The witty royal troubleshooter with a soft heart (200 points)

20 Jul 201922 Jul 2020

This is a sample character demonstrating the use of the Ruler template. Princess Alba Princess Alba came to her talent of beguilement just two years ago. While she is pledged…

Land of the True Game

Template: Ruler (King/Queen/Prince/Princess — Beguilement)

19 Jul 201919 Jul 2019

Although I created this as a template to allow players to use this character type, in fact I suspect I will disallow Rulers as player-characters. How many gangs of adventurers…

Land of the True Game

Template: Seer (Precognition)

18 Jul 201919 Jul 2019

Getting back into my other campaign, the Land of the True Game, with this template for the Seer gamesman. Seers are a little unusual in that their powers are described…

Land of the True Game

Module: Survivor (For Anyone)

17 Jul 201919 Jul 2019

THE SINGLE MOST COMMON QUESTION I AM ASKED AS A GM by GURPS players who have character points to spend is: how do I make combats more survivable for my…

I Want You To Build A Space Suit That Doesn’t Like Me… Into My Skin (Module For Character Bionics)

16 Jul 201915 Jul 2019

A player came to me with the idea of a bionic spacesuit that was built into her skin. I love to accommodate almost anything the players are excited about, BUT…

25 Obscure Sci-Fi Character Ideas (For the Hard-to-Please)

15 Jul 20198 Jul 2019

In the last post I explained that with the Deeps of Lyrae campaign I'm going to use the templates published in GURPS Space and GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars with a…

Time to Make Characters, People! (A List of 45 GURPS Templates Relevant to Sci-Fi)

14 Jul 20191 Aug 2020

After all this work on the spaceships, it's time to get rolling on the characters. For the Land of the True Game campaign I've decided to write my own character…

Table of Campaign Spaceships

13 Jul 20196 Jul 2019

To keep things organized in my mind, I made a printable table of all of the spaceships I expect to use in the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. This is in…

Deeps of Lyrae…

How to Choose Your Maneuver in Basic Space Combat (And: One-Page Move Flowchart)

12 Jul 20195 Jul 2019

It's a free fan-produced game aid! Download the GURPS Spaceships basic space combat Pilot Move flowchart v. 1 in either PDF or Microsoft Word for GURPS 4th edition: Download PDF:…

Cyclone Light Fast-Attack Fighter (SM+4, TL11^)

11 Jul 20195 Jul 2019

I've been messing around with the format of the information I give to players when they acquire a ship. For the used Sun Dog freighter, I gave them an in-world…