Setting Up Foundry VTT For GURPS: Update

December 16, 2020 Mook 14

Love GURPS for your RPG needs? Looking for an amazing way to play online? You got it! I posted a quick guide to getting GURPS up and running with Foundry VTT a few months back (unofficially), and in that time […]

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 […]

“Race for the Dutchman” Actual Plays

July 27, 2020 Mook 0

Howdy, Folks! Today I uploaded a three-pack of Actual Play videos from a GURPS Old West game I GMed a few months back, based on the “Race for the Dutchman” adventure. They weren’t necessarily intended to be streamed so there’s […]

Setting Up Foundry VTT For GURPS

July 10, 2020 Mook 13

GURPS grognards and newbies alike, welcome! The past month or so I’ve become super stoked by a new virtual tabletop, Foundry VTT, and am enjoying the first, fledgling efforts of the community to get some (still unofficial, sadly) GURPS support […]

Custom GURPS Token Hex for VTTs

May 25, 2020 Mook 4

I’ve been fiddling a bit with Roll20 as well as Fantasy Grounds lately, and one of the things I miss in Roll20 is the ability to have a facing arrow that rotates independently of a token. I still don’t believe […]

[Podcast] Episode 02: FnordCon2 – GURPS Panel

April 20, 2020 Mook 11

Howdy Folks! Steve Jackson Games’ virtual convention this weekend, FnordCon2, was very informative and entertaining, but all hope is not lost if you weren’t able to attend. Over the next few podcasts I’ll go over some of the GURPS and […]

Want To Play An Online GURPS One-Shot?

March 20, 2020 Mook 4

Hey all! Posting here for a very preliminary interest check for an online GURPS game. With so many games moving online for a while, I want to do what I can to show people about playing GURPS remotely. To that […]

Overview of 2019

December 31, 2019 Mook 0

Happy 2020 (nearly)! Like previous years (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015), I’m taking a look back at the year in Mook, Game Geekery, and GURPS/Steve Jackson Games as 2019 draws to a close. Game Geekery First, some numbers. These were the […]

GURPS for One-Shots, Upcoming

September 10, 2019 Mook 7

I’ve been noodling over the “GURPS for One-Shots” I’m putting together (mentioned here), and thought I’d post what I’m hoping to include. The goal is to pull together ideas from all the below posts to synthesize for myself a baseline, […]

Gateway 2019, Post-Con Wrap Up

September 8, 2019 Mook 4

Coasting on the tail-end of the post-con glow! I tried something new with my GURPS games at the recent Gateway 2019 convention, having the players make their PCs at the table instead of using pre-gens, and it was a total […]

PCs Old and New – The Biker Crew

August 7, 2019 Mook 3

Happy GURPSday, all! Today I dive, shockingly, into the elegant simplicity of our favorite RPG. A couple of weekends ago, I found myself having to whip up a quick one-shot for some friends with very little time to prepare. It […]

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 […]

“The Only Good Bug…” Post-Con Wrap Up

June 13, 2019 Mook 11

Greetings, folks! The Gamex 2019 convention was a few weekends ago, and I ran three tables of my “Starship Troopers”-inspired GURPS one-shot. Read on to hear how it went! First off, the game itself (you can download PDFs of the […]

The Only Good Bug… Take Two!

May 2, 2019 Mook 5

Just a quick post for anyone making it to Gamex 2019 (Los Angeles, May 24-27) in a few weeks, I’ll be GMing the “Starship Troopers” game I was going to run at Orccon 2019 on Friday 2pm-6pm, Saturday 2pm-6pm, and […]