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

4 Aug 20201 Aug 2020
I'm obviously a huge fan of GURPS and sci-fi spacefaring is my main bread-and-butter gaming setting right now. So I was delighted to see that a 12-page PDF available in…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
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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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
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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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
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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.…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

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…
Deeps of Lyrae

Combat Test: Sun Dog vs. Contessa Liner (Third Space Combat)

8 Jul 20194 Jul 2019
You'll remember that I decided to give the players a ship with a terrible gun and a single missile launcher. Then to teach myself about the GURPS Spaceships basic space…
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…
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 201922 Jul 2019
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 201922 Jul 2019
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 201917 Jun 2019
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…

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