Gaming Online

November 27, 2020 Mook 2

Howdy, Folks! With all the worldwide disruptions going on, there are a lot of tabletop gamers finding themselves separated from their usual groups or otherwise unable to play face-to-face. Because of that there has been a big surge in gamers […]

D&D 5E – Checking In With An Old Friend

June 27, 2019 Mook 16

I’ve been getting back in touch with an old gaming friend, one I imagine most of you know: D&D. It’s our hobby’s alpha (with no omega in sight), the common Eve from which all tabletop RPGs descend. It was the […]

Gaming is Life, and Life is Diverse

March 23, 2019 Mook 10

Greetings, gamer kin! Today I share with you yet another gaming anecdote from my past, but they can’t all be sunshine and puppies (or even bunnies). This one is actually embarrassing and awkward to recount, but I think it’s also […]

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Charlie, the Mystery DM

January 24, 2019 Mook 11

Happy GURPSDay, all! With 2019 well underway, I hope your year is shaping up to be a good one for gaming. When I first discovered RPGs, I was lucky enough in those formative years to have a lot of wonderful […]

The Fantasy Trip and a Limited Publishing License

August 16, 2018 Mook 5

In the past couple of years, Steve Jackson Games has made a number of surprising (and welcome!) moves: offering both 4th and 3rd Edition GURPS products as print-on-demand, selling PDFs through DriveThruRPG as well as their own Warehouse 23, and […]

Darknet 01: Game One

April 17, 2018 Mook 2

Last weekend we kicked off the first game of the Darknet cyberpunk adventure — it’s even international! As always, the video is available at the Happy Jacks channels on YouTube and Twitch (I also extracted just the unedited audio if you […]

Darknet 00: Character Creation, Part Two

March 25, 2018 Mook 2

Hey there, GURPS Cyberpunk fans, I hope you enjoyed the blog bounty from GURPSDay! The first PC for the “Darknet” game saw a lot of progress this week, and helped finalize some of the details of how we’re going to handle […]

Darknet 00: Character Creation

March 16, 2018 Mook 7

Happy GURPSDay, folks! Last weekend we had the “session zero” of our new GURPS Cyberpunk game, “Darknet,” and the video is now up at the Happy Jacks channel on YouTube or Twitch. We went over a bit of GURPS mechanics, but […]

New Monthly GURPS Game: Darknet

March 9, 2018 Mook 6

Howdy Folks! As I’ve mentioned a couple times before, I’m GMing a new monthly GURPS Cyberpunk game over the meeting app Zoom… and it starts tomorrow! I’m still throwing a few things together for the first game, but I wanted […]

Patreon and Game Geekery in 2018

December 13, 2017 Mook 1

Howdy, Folks! And a joyful GURPSDay to all! Originally, I was working on this post to address the recent Patreon debacle, but it seems as though someone on their PR team finally figured out they were completely shooting themselves in the foot and just […]

In Praise of Kromm

July 26, 2017 Mook 4

Gygax. When I first fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons as a teen, that name was magical to me. It conjured images of a powerful wizard, gifting arcane knowledge to gamers everywhere with a constant flow of new dungeons, […]

Scattershot – July 2017

July 5, 2017 Mook 4

Hail, hello, and happy GURPSDay, all! It’s been a few months since the last Scattershot post, and today I have a bunch of little tidbits to share that might not otherwise warrant their own blog post. GURPS and Fantasy Grounds/Roll20 First […]

GURPS Roll20 Encounter, Part 2

June 21, 2017 Mook 2

Welcome to another GURPSDay, GURPS aficionados! I hope you enjoy the weekly mountain of gaming goodness. Last week, I posted about a short GURPS encounter I’d be running online at Roll20 but I neglected to write the usual GURPSDay announcements letting […]

GURPS Roll20 Encounter – Fury Road

June 14, 2017 Mook 3

Happy GURPSDay, folks! So, it looks like this weekend I’ll finally be dipping my virtual toe into some online GURPSin’ using Roll20. I’ve had an account for many years, fiddled around here and there with friends and tinkering alone, but […]

Favorite RPG Moments in TV and Movies

January 25, 2017 Mook 9

Happy GURPSDay, gamers of the world! Get out there and devour the mountains of GURPS goodness now ready for consumption! Today’s Game Geekery post isn’t exclusively GURPS, but rather a waxing nostalgic of some of my favorite RPG moments from TV […]