Land of the True Game Campaign Planning Form (Land of the True Game) 16 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 I'm still not sure if anyone else actually fills out the official GURPS Campaign Planning Form, but I do. So here it is for the Land of the True Game…
Land of the True Game What the Players Need to Know (Campaign Setting) 15 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 Unlike my normal character design prompts, which are pretty open-ended, in The Land of the True Game campaign I'm going to use templates and lenses to give players a pre-set…
Land of the True Game The Agirul: Combat Test 14 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 https://imgur.com/cQbieJ6 Ha ha, just kidding. The Agirul would probably be even less effective. Probably more like: https://imgur.com/MmP2IVd
Land of the True Game Alien: The Agirul (Stats and Notes) 14 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 In this follow-up to my racial template and narrative description of The Agirul, I'll discuss how I did the modeling and provide more detailed stats. Notes on Modeling There are…
Land of the True Game Alien: The Agirul — Sees All, Speaks With All, Is One 13 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 "What the Agirul knows, the Agirul knows," said the creature in a voice of great complacency. "Which means all of it, wherever its parts may be." The tl;dr version: Here's…
Land of the True Game Alien: Stickies (Stats and Notes) 12 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 In this post I'll follow-up my high-level racial template and discussion of the stickies with the full stats and some notes about why I modeled them this way. Detailed Stats…
Uncategorized Inspirational Blogs 11 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 This blog ("Requires Concentrate") is a new blog, although you might not know it because I backdated some posts to get things going with a critical mass of content at…
Land of the True Game Combat Test: Sticky vs. Human 10 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 In this post I'll consider what would happen if a sticky encountered a human via a quick combat playtest. Combat Example During actual game play this might look like the…
Land of the True Game Alien: Stickies — They’re Wet, Scary, and You 10 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 If you touch a sticky, you become the sticky and the sticky becomes you. If you are a sticky and someone touches you, tough luck. You're going to merge now,…
Deeps of Lyrae Robot: Zak from Reactor Maintenance (as Player or Ally; 125 points) 7 Jun 201910 Nov 2023 In the NPC version of this build I added whatever traits to the character I felt would be interesting to support the adventure. In the PC version, I asked myself…
Deeps of Lyrae Robot: Zak from Reactor Maintenance (as NPC or Patron; 447 points) 6 Jun 201910 Nov 2023 Now let's try building Zak the robot as an NPC. As discussed earlier, this is an expensive proposition. I've already described Zak and provided a picture. In this post I'll…
Deeps of Lyrae Robot: Zak from Reactor Maintenance (as Equipment) 5 Jun 201910 Nov 2023 If you don't want to play Zak the robot, maybe you just want to buy him. (Or rent-to-own?) An anonymous GURPS-loving person, referenced only as "a friend" by Jachra on…
Deeps of Lyrae Robot: Zak from Reactor Maintenance (NPC Description + Adventure Seed) 4 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 Zak solves the game problem of crewing up the adventurer's spaceship. I envision the Deeps of Lyrae campaign will include a lot of spacefaring. I'm going to get the players…
Deeps of Lyrae Robots, In General 3 Jun 201910 Nov 2023 In the next set of posts I'm going to share a build for a maintenance robot named Zak, but I am going to do so in multiple versions. In this…
Deeps of Lyrae… Spaceship Minor Loot Table 29 May 201917 Jun 2019 Loot tables are staples of dungeon-crawl RPGs. But it can be hard to find anything equivalent if you are planning a game crawling through TL11^ spaceships. I know I will…
Land of the True Game What’s Crunchy About The Land of the True Game 28 May 201917 Jun 2019 In comparison to my other campaign, The Deeps of Lyrae, the Land of the True Game is a very different animal to GM. I thought I'd go over the potential…
Deeps of Lyrae… Table of Hard Vacuum Effects on Equipment 27 May 201917 Jun 2019 So, you went to space and left the door open? As discussed in my last post, this table is a "missing sidebar" describing what happens to things on spaceships after…
Deeps of Lyrae… The “Missing Sidebar” Problem: Equipment and Vacuum 20 May 201917 Jun 2019 I’m not sure where to file this complaint, but I want to share it: It seems like sci-fi RPGs have gotten a little too conservative in the kinds of rules…
Deeps of Lyrae Loadout: NPCs in the 261st Sector Fleet 13 May 201911 Nov 2023 Military personnel have equipment suited to their assignment. As discussed in the last post, military personnel in the Deeps of Lyrae setting don’t just walk around packing heat. If a…
Deeps of Lyrae NPCs: Space Marines 6 May 201910 Nov 2023 In the Deeps of Lyrae, marines of the 261st (the sector fleet) will appear in situations where the Navy expects trouble. That is, it needs combat infantry. Every large navy ship has some…
Deeps of Lyrae NPCs: Naval Officers 29 Apr 201910 Nov 2023 While scooting around the sector in your spaceship you might well encounter a patrol of the Imperial Navy. The officers of the 261st (the sector fleet) will be the ones in…
Deeps of Lyrae NPCs: Navy Spooks 22 Apr 201910 Nov 2023 Naval Intelligence personnel ("spooks") of the 261st will be assigned by Captain Sem for duties involving his “special project” (see the plot). These might include spy-like tasks such as shadowing…
Deeps of Lyrae NPCs: Navy Enlisted Crew 15 Apr 201910 Nov 2023 To continue fleshing out the 261st, I've come up with a few example NPCs and their loadouts. This post will start with the crew on the 261st's starships. That is,…
Deeps of Lyrae Organization: The 261st Imperial Fleet 8 Apr 201910 Nov 2023 (a.k.a. “The Fierce Falconets”) I decided to use the organization statistics rules in GURPS Boardroom and Curia to be sure I understand the capabilities of the organization commanded by Fleet…
Deeps of Lyrae NPC Villain: Fleet Captain Sem 1 Apr 201917 Jun 2019 Captain Sem is the key villain who motivates the plot in the early part of the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I often like to design the entire character sheet for…
Deeps of Lyrae… Tonnage: Converting Spaceship “Tons” Between Traveller and GURPS 25 Mar 201917 Jun 2019 A great benefit of a campaign based on Traveller is that there is such a large amount of Traveller material available to draw from – both fan produced and otherwise.…
Deeps of Lyrae The Campaign’s Starting Plot 18 Mar 201917 Jun 2019 When a campaign starts out it isn't clear where it is going to go, but I do try to come up with a narrative hook that could span multiple adventures…
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