Hobby project I started, never finished, but I would like one day to pick up again:
* A statistics and probability manual that uses #DnD rules as both motivations and examples.
*A simple managerial videogame where you are a newly appointed academic and need to run your group, juggle teaching, admin etc
* A #GURPS-inspired ttrpg set in a world where magic is so common that everybody can use it.
* An app that allows you to make 3D diagrams for experimental setups just by drag and drop (without having to learn all the intricacies if Blender&co).
* An app that shows you the probability distribution to get a given result when rolling dice (e.g. roll 4d12 and keep the lowest 2).

GURPS Wars S1 Ep 67: Womp Rat in Corner Pocket

https://aaronbsmith.com/cogwheel/2025/07/gurps-wars-s1-ep-67-womp-rat-in-corner-pocket/

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Beth GMs for Ellie, Crash, and Io.

This episode: The Logistics Trio continue to explore, but are forced to deal with problems previously locked away.

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New #GeniusLoci article!

The Area is not just a surreal dreamworld, you can use it to get places fast. With some - let's call it: special requirements. Like, not wearing purple, and expecting things to go the "usual way".

There will be more about it in my upcoming #textadventure The Spirit in the Door!

https://jenniferslange.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/travelling-by-area-genius-loci/

#fantasy #worldbuilding #ttrpg #art #illustration #gurps #blog #highfantasy #rollenspiel

Há uns anos eu não retirava este livro da estante. Consta que o adquiri em 1996. Foi o meu tipo de cenário preferido a ser imaginado coletivamente em muitas madrugadas.

#GURPS #Cyberpunk #RPG

Fun session of #GURPS #merfolk last night. Thanks to all the players and to @leece for running it.

Relieving Gurp of his chin crud.

#catsofmastodon #gurps

GURPS Wars S1 Ep 66: Worst Puppy

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Beth GMs for Ellie, Crash, and Io.

This episode: The Logistics Trio Find another altered acolyte, and negotiations break down.

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https://anothergurpsblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/reading-level.html
:blobcatpat: So #gurps will probably die because people no longer have the level to read or do the maths in it :blobcatmaths:
I don’t know what to think of this… :blobeyes:

Time for an ep of #NewGame before #GURPS

*Enchantments? Her true self is a SHINY steel spear that has spent a couple of centuries under sea (i.e SALT) water and NOT RUSTING.

Of course she’s enchanted, there is magic weaved deep into her steel, and deeper than she knows (yet)… #GURPS

Umi herself? Well, she’s STILL a Muramasa with all that that entails (fortunately no one has tried to surrender to her during a fight as that’s a situation that could get…messy, fast) but she’s becoming moderately well socialised at this point and starting to awaken some of the deeper enchantments* forged into her true self #GURPS

Oh, and not that she fully realises this yet, Umi has SISTERS. All of whom are Muramasas of some form or other, and not all of whom are very nice people. Or indeed nice at all… #GURPS

The magic that erased her memories was powerful, enough so that it took a visit to the Land of Shadows ruled by Scathach for her to finally realise who, and WHAT, she was. #GURPS

Umi has only fragmentary memories, mostly erased in fact, of the time prior to her manifesting her avatar this time around. Which, after a century or two as an heirloom weapon of the Mer King’s Court, was naturally patterned on her users during that period. #GURPS

Something that, historically, made owning a Muramasa a, ah, risky business during the height of the Tokugawa Shogunate (all of which Umi missed for… reasons). #GURPS

Those who have seen me post about that particular #GURPS game will recall that Umi is the Tsukomogami of a Muramasa Spear who has manifested a merfolk avatar.

Yes, THAT Muramasa. The allegedly demonic smith himself (which in THIS world may be rather less “alleged” and rather more true) and whose blades were reputed to be the bane of the Tokugawa family.

On the topic of #TGIF I believe the gaming group is returning to the #GURPS merfolk game, so I’m looking forward to playing Umi again. I really do appreciate @leece as a GM and I try to learn from her many strengths (to, admittedly limited success thus far). :)

@HeyeBodo Aktuell ist wegen Energiemangel und Terminflut nicht wirklich an Spielleitung und Spielvorbereitung zu denken. 😕 Ende Juli findet der #SommerregenCon statt und ich will dort eigentlich eine Runde anbieten, aber ob es klappt, steht noch in den Sternen.

Davon ab bin ich aber in der privilegierten Situation, dauerhaft in zwei wirklich schönen Spielrunden mitspielen zu dürfen. #CoC #GURPS #InfiniteWorlds 🥰

#pnpde

GURPS Wars S1 Ep 65: Rage Quit

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Beth GMs for Ellie, Crash, and Io.

This episode: The Logistics Trio have a "conversation" with a still sentient victim and explore further.

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@SJohnRoss The thing that I have seen work best for this in #GURPS, and something I have copied, is when the player looks at the disadvantages first. "That's the sort of person I am. OK, now what are my skills?"