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GURPS Old West/Horror: Trains, revenge, and stolen candles.

The rich and entitled (literally) make odd choices all the time in the real world, so why wouldn't they in a fantasy setting? Seems quite plausible to me that the scion of some family might go off on some adventures before settling down. The family might give him their blessing or it could be a...

I love the March 31 map. I ran an adventure in a tree a few years ago. The tree was a space-warping lair of an aged satyr. It had multiple entrances to different places in both the regular world and the feywild (or its equivalent in our GURPS Fantasy campaign). It was way beyond me to actually...

Chronomancer, Neanderthals, and T-Rex battle. (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)

GURPS Old West/Horror: Impossible murders, pig candles, suspicion…

One of my favorite authors and publishers, Douglas Cole of Gaming Ballistic, is offering another book for Old-School Essentials: Best Supporting Actors: Ready-to-Use Adversaries and Allies for Old-School Essentials. It's a collection of 172 characters with stats and personalities. Specific...

Yeah, it's always strange when I look over an old thread like this and see my own posts that I have no recollection of. o_O

I'd like to hear the backstory on this one. What was the archaeological mystery?

An area of cognitive dissonance (if that's the right term) that I sometimes experience with RPGs, especially when playing with younger players, is the primacy of violence. I love the detail of the GURPS combat system, for example, but when I'm playing with my kids, I don't really want them...

Remind me what scale you're using. Ten foot squares? Or five foot?

Sure, I suppose you can powergame it like there's no tomorrow. What drew me to it, though, and what made me think of it in the context of the OP's post, was the idea of building 3-dimensional characters who are as much about their flaws as their capabilities. Never played M&M, but have played...

I don't have a problem with any of that. My favorite game for the past few decades has been GURPS which is all about embracing your character's disadvantages. But, all players need to understand that they are playing a cooperative game. If I decide to play Jerkwad the Useless in a game that's...

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy: Befriended asthmatic elemental; mine collapses.

I stopped playing D&D as my primary system in the early '90s, long before I joined ENWorld. I find this community useful. I spend more time on General Tabletop Discussion, but since I still run heroic fantasy as a genre, I find plenty of useful stuff on this board too. I couldn't understand the...

After returning from my school trip last week, I caught a cold and have been struggling to keep up. I don't have anything in full to post yet, but am continuing to doodle on the dungeon in various ways. I've been pondering the columned hall (room 1/26) in my Smith's Home map (posted here on the...