Sometimes I get an urge to make some GURPS content, be it something original, or something converted from another system/media. Maybe if I post it here, it will be useful not only to me. Keep in mind that I'm not a native English speaker and please forgive any mistakes.
Wednesday 8 May 2024
Druidic Spells: Weather Spells III
Monday 6 May 2024
Druidic Spells: Weather Spells II
Druidic Spells: Weather Spells II
Sunday 5 May 2024
Wizardry: Adventurer Spells IV
Wizardry: Adventurer Spells IV
Saturday 4 May 2024
Wizardry: Adventurer Spells III
Wizardry: Adventurer Spells III
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Review: GURPS Underground Adventures
Review: GURPS Underground Adventures
In the previous review, I mentioned that GURPS Low-Tech Companion 3 has two pages on excavation and mining, but it was pointed out to me that I forgot about GURPS Underground Adventures. And that’s right, I did forget about that book. I often do, despite using certain rules from it relatively often. Still, this book often just escapes my mind, just like such books as GURPS Future Histories. So, let’s have a short review of GURPS Underground Adventures to give it some spotlight!
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Karilan: New Aventus
Karilan: New Aventus
Saturday 20 April 2024
Review: The Quintessential Dwarf
Review: The Quintessential Dwarf
Many times before, I said that I love GURPS because any RPG book is a GURPS book. Back in the D&D 3.0 days, when the OGL was reigning supreme, and many third-party publishers were churning out tons of books of dubious quality, I haven’t really found any use for these books in my D&D games. Sure, some of the stuff there looked nice, but it was awful from the game balance perspective. Today, I’d like to talk about The Quintessential Dwarf, part of the Quintessential series by Mongoose Publishing. Mongoose Publishing is no small player in the RPG scene, and they produced tons of D&D content. The Quintessential series is quite large, with each book detailing a particular class or race, with some classes or races even getting two books.
Thursday 18 April 2024
GURPS Monstrous Compendium
GURPS Monstrous Compendium
Tuesday 2 April 2024
New Monster Statblock - First Attempt (Ankheg)
New Monster Statblock - First Attempt (Ankheg)
Sunday 31 March 2024
Life's Price Tag in GURPS
Life's Price Tag in GURPS
In my pursuit of a perfect monster statblock, I found something that isn’t covered that much detail in GURPS – the price of a creature. The animal section of GURPS Basic Set has prices for some of the more common domestic animals and guidelines for adjusting them for training and exceptional stats. The same book later has rough guidelines for pricing slaves. However, this is not enough for me, as I’d like to delve into the minute details. I just want to find a way to calculate a price for a captured monster.
Sunday 24 March 2024
Wizardry: Adventurer Spells II
Wizardry: Adventurer Spells II
Saturday 23 March 2024
Index: Video Content
Index: Video Content
Tuesday 19 March 2024
What would a perfect monster statblock look like?
What would a perfect monster statblock look like?
I’ve done a lot of work writing up monsters for GURPS, be they D&D conversions or something else. Because of that, I got to see many types of monster descriptions and statblocks from different systems and editions. Many times, I could not find some piece of information either on the statblock or in the description, and I had to consult other sources. This made me think – “What would be the perfect monster statblock?”
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Wizardry: Adventurer Spells I
Wizardry: Adventurer Spells I
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Monster: Dullahan
Monster: Dullahan
Sunday 3 March 2024
Monsters: Aquatic Ooze
Monsters: Aquatic Ooze
Friday 1 March 2024
Monsters: Aoa
Monsters: Aoa
Wednesday 28 February 2024
Monsters: Fiend Folio Monsters I
Monsters: Fiend Folio Monsters I
Saturday 3 February 2024
Review: SpaceMaster Armored Assault
Review: SpaceMaster Armored Assault
This is something of a digression from my usual topics, where I talk about GURPS or D&D. I want to talk about a book that fascinates me but the one that I haven’t even tried in a game yet. Aside from tabletop RPGs, I’ve always been interested in tabletop wargaming. Of course, the most popular thing is Warhammer 40k, but I’m not a big fan of it. I played it with friends through VASSAL and Tabletop Simulator, and it just… doesn’t play that well; it feels that the game is decided not on the table, but on army roster creation. I do find the concept of collecting, building, and painting miniatures, but without this aspect, the game feels absolutely hollow to me. A few years ago, I decided to search for a generic and reasonably crunchy sci-fi wargame. I scoured an incredibly long list of games on BoardGamesGeek, but most of the games were either too specialized or too light on the rules. There was a couple of exceptions, however, and one of them was Spacemaster Armored Assault.
Wednesday 24 January 2024
Wizardry: Binding
Wizardry: Binding
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Wizardry: Power Words
Wizardry: Power Words
Monday 22 January 2024
Clerical Spells: Alignment Spells III
Clerical Spells: Alignment Spells III
Sunday 21 January 2024
Clerical Spells: Alignment Spells II
Clerical Spells: Alignment Spells II
Saturday 20 January 2024
Clerical Spells: Alignment Spells I
Clerical Spells: Alignment Spells I
Friday 19 January 2024
Clerical Spells: Healing Spells II
Clerical Spells: Healing Spells II
Thursday 18 January 2024
Clerical Spells: Healing Spells I
Clerical Spells: Healing Spells I
Wednesday 17 January 2024
Druidic Spells: Weather Spells
Druidic Spells: Weather Spells
Tuesday 16 January 2024
Differences Between DFRPG and GURPS
Differences Between DFRPG and GURPS
In this post, I will go over Dungeon Fantasy RPG: Adventurers and Dungeon Fantasy RPG: Exploits and compare them with GURPS Basic Set. I will ignore DF-specific new rules and focus on differences between the books. I will also ignore templates and focus on the rules only. Some of these changes can be easily backported to GURPS and used as errata.