Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsThis is the third installment of ten spells to go with my Dungeons & Sorcery system for GURPS. This time, they’re based on a mix of 1st and 2nd level AD&D spells. Blindness (C) Phantasm, Verbal, Resisted (HT) 42 points/level[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the past little while, Pseudonym has been posting various Pokemon moves as GURPS Sorcery spells whenever he gets stuck for something else to say. Along with Smudge’s continuing Pokemon Go adventures, and now the both of us playing the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another set of ten spells adapted from AD&D to add to my Dungeons & Sorcery system for GURPS. I’m still concentrating on 1st Level spells, though more of these are from Unearthed Arcana/2e Players Handbook, and branch out into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sequel to SSI’s first D&D computer game was a little odd in that it was also a sequel to the novel Azure Bonds. On top of that, the TSR adaption of the game into a module carried the code[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a follow-up to my previous Dungeons & Sorcery post, with ten more spells converted from AD&D for use with GURPS Sorcery. As with any Powers write-up, these are easy enough to convert to use in some other power[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
TSR’s seventh FR-series module went into unusual territory again. A 128-page perfect bound book, it was one of the first products to sport a 2nd Edition logo, though the interior stats are all still first edition (magic-user, not mage, etc.).[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 1988 SSI released the first of their celebrated “Gold Box” games, Pool of Radiance. TSR cashed in on their new AD&D and Forgotten Realms tie-in with a novel… loosely… based on the game, and 96-page adventure module, Ruins of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
About a year after the release of GURPS Thaumatology: Sorcery, it got its first dedicated supplement in August 2016: GURPS Sorcery: Protection and Warning Spells. This is a relatively small PDF supplement (15 pages, including the obligatory cover page and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How to deal with social interactions in a role playing game is often a difficult subject. In many games, truly inspired ideas (of whatever type), should just work, and having a die roll interfere with some good improv acting just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another magic system for GURPS. This one has the goal to get some of the feel of old-fashioned D&D into GURPS. This not quite a complete system, as it should include rules for a character to create a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…