Occupational Template: Shadowcaster

Occupational Template: Shadowcaster

An occupational template of a shadow magic user. Basically, a dexterity-based wizard.

Everything about dual-wielding in GURPS

Everything about dual-wielding in GURPS

Dual-wielding is cool, even though often impractical. However, both in D&D and GURPS it can be quite difficult to wrap your head around it rules-wise. I've decided to compile everything about dual-wielding here to understand it better and have it as a reference material.

My thoughts about Drizzt novels

My thoughts about Drizzt novels

This is not GURPS-related at all, but something I'd like to talk about. I like reading, but I read much less fantasy than sci-fi literature. In my teen years, I used to read Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms novels, and I remember enjoying them a lot. Several months ago, I decided to read some fantasy novels again, starting with a book that was recommended to me by my friend - Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames. Typically, I often ignore reading recommendations, thinking that I probably will end up spending a lot of time reading something I will not like. But after reading Kings of the Wyld in a single breath, I concluded that that was the best fantasy novel I've ever read. Simply perfect. After that, I decided to revisit Salvatore's Forgotten Realms novels - the main line about Drizzt. I wanted to see how they hold up now, when I'm much older than when I read them the first time, and also to find inspiration for my games, as my last few games... didn't go well. This isn't really a review, but just my ramblings.

How to convert a D&D monster?

How to convert a D&D monster?

I have received messages telling me to explain how I convert D&D monsters to GURPS multiple times, but I never could explain it properly. So, I decided to write this post as something of a stream of consciousness. Let's see if the result is any good.

Monsters: Faerunian Giants

Monsters: Faerunian Giants

D&D 3.5 Forgotten Realms books, surprisingly, only have four giants, and I have already converted one of them (the cyclops). Let's do the rest.

Monsters/Lenses: Faerunian Undead

Monsters/Lenses: Faerunian Undead

Forgotten Realms splatbooks have many setting-specific undead creatures, be they actual monsters or templates/lenses. I'll tackle some of them.

Monsters: More Faerunian Monsters

Monsters: More Faerunian Monsters

More converted monsters from the Forgotten Realms books. Many mundane animals that I based on GURPS Animalia and Anon's Animal Album.

Karilan Setting Documents

Karilan Setting Documents

Some of you might know that I have created my own kitchen sink fantasy setting to incorporate all things D&D/PF in GURPS. I decided to post it here to have a static place where I can share it.

Monsters: Assorted Faerun Monsters

Monsters: Assorted Faerun Monsters

Let's convert some creatures from the Monsters of Faerun. Alaghi, firenewts, and bullywugs could also work as a player character races.

Sorcery: Acid Spells

Sorcery: Acid Spells

Acid always felt weird to me in fantasy games. Sure, the concept itself has its place, but different systems are trying to "attach" acid to other elements. D&D lumps acid together with earth, citing the corrosive qualities of various salts. GURPS incorporated acid into the college of Water because it's liquid. However, if you look at GURPS Grimoire for the third edition, you will see a suggestion to separate it from water and form its own college of Acid. I've been meaning to do that in my games for a long time, but I always felt that there's too few acid spells. Let's make some more to make the college of Acid more "valid".

Psionics: Cryokinesis, Pyrokinesis, TK Crush Reworked

 Psionics: Cryokinesis, Pyrokinesis, TK Crush Reworked

Something strange was pointed out to me a couple of days ago - certain abilities in GURPS Psionic Powers use Malediction 3 and have some other questionable modifiers when usually everything uses Malediction 2. Malediction 3 in general is something that should be used very carefully (in Low-Tech games, at least). Let's rework some of the statblocks!

Edit: I also found Spectral Surge in Pyramid #3-99 and TK Burst in Pyramid #3-29, so they also needs a similar repricing.

Monsters: More Demonic Foes

Monsters: More Demonic Foes

Apparently, I missed another D&D demon from Dragon Magazine! Mechanically, it is nothing special, but the flavor is quite interesting, in my opinion. In addition to the cataboligne demon, I'll also convert two demon-adjacent monsters - the wrackspawn and the vorr.