Gateway 2014
Last weekend it was once more unto the breach for a Strategicon convention, and once more I had an uber-fun time! The con was Gateway 2014, and I was really looking forward to a little get-away with friends, games, and more games. […]
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More Reaction to “How to Be a GURPS GM”
This will likely be the last “How to Be a GURPS GM” post for a bit, but there were a few more reader comments that I wanted to share! “Any book that we can point to when someone expresses confusion or timid […]
Reaction to “How to Be a GURPS GM”
It has been an amazing weekend since the release of “How to Be a GURPS GM,” with friends from far and wide heaping congratulations and virtual cheers. I’ve also been scouring the internet daily to see what the reception has […]
“How To Be A GURPS GM” Released!
All right, people, I hope you’re sitting down — this is big news. I mean, really big. BIG. NEWS. At least to me. Just about three years ago, after toiling with great joy and genuine pride, I submitted to Steve […]
More Tokens in Combat
I recently ran a couple of GURPS games at Gamex 2014, and stumbled upon a great method for pairing colored tokens and dice to speed up large combats. The encounter called for the four PCs to fight against eight NPC creatures […]
Fate – Printing Through Lulu
Since the GURPS Omnibus I got from Lulu turned out so well, and I’ve been reading more Fate lately, I decided to put together a single volume of Fate Core, the Fate System Toolkit, and Fate Accelerated for personal use. Here are […]
Sweet Metal Fate Dice
What I love about Kickstarter is, at least in my experience, you throw a few bucks at something shiny, and at some random point in the future it shows up on your doorstep. It’s like Russian roulette, but the bullets […]
Using Lego Minifigs for RPGs
As a nice follow-up to my post a couple weeks ago about different tokens and miniatures for tabletop RPGs, I recently came across an excellent discussion at the GURPS forums about using Lego minifigs as gaming figures. I did actually have some first-hand […]
Streamlining Combat With Tokens
I’ve recently been upgrading the tokens and counters I use when running combats for my GURPS games. It’s an ongoing process — I tinker with this and that, use it for a while, then move on to something else. But […]
Using Cthulhu Dice for GURPS Fright Checks
Each Halloween I try to run a one-shot GURPS Horror game for the non-gamer and gamer-curious among my friends. So far this year, I’ve run two of the three groups I was able to schedule, and we’ve been using this […]
Print On Demand Has A New Fan
A few years back, I used Kinko’s/FedEx to combine my GURPS Characters and GURPS Campaigns into a single volume. It looked like this: It served me well through many a GURPS campaign, but I […]
Gamex 2013 – Part 1
Well, Gamex 2013 ended a few weeks ago, and I have finally recovered enough for … post-convention wrap up time! Short version is, I pre-regged for 8 games but only managed to play 5 1/4 (due to feeling like poo […]
Creating a Cynosure Romp – Part 2
This is Part 2 of my dissection of game prep for a recent GURPS convention adventure — if you need to catch up, Part 1 is here. When last we left my brain, I had 8 pre-gen characters in very rough form. […]
Creating a Cynosure Romp – Part 1
Probably the most common question any GM is asked, behind “Do you do it for the money, the prestige, or the groupies?”, is “How do you create your adventures?” In these posts I’ll be dissecting a recent convention game I […]
The God of Flaming Haycarts
A friend of mine drew this for me in high school: The other two are pretty self-explanatory, but the “flaming haycarts”?
