Weblog Licentiae Moeticae

Yes. Yes, I have been neglectful.

Long since past time that I did some things here. Going a month without blogging gaming or bardic material is just a bit too long.

Well, easily fixed.

Dodona / Bolera (GURPS 4E, Supers)

This was actually written for submission to SJG's Pyramid magazine, but alas, the conversion of that from a weekly e-zine to a monthly pdf made it superfluous. So it goes.

This writeup uses the GURPS 4e rules, and is designed to be for a Supers game.

Supporting Cast: Dodona / Bolera

Quote of the Day, Penny Arcade edition.

So true, so true:

I was there when he realized the true purpose of the Dungeon Master's screen, which is to uphold the beautiful lie that a system, even a system with embedded randomness, is at play. This may have been the moment he decided to take up the role. One rarely rejects the promise of Godhood.

Minimus Delux: now a FOUR PAGE roleplaying game system!

Via Schlock Mercenary: this Minimus thing really is a rather clever game system.  My wife is already thinking about how to incorporate the relationship generation between PCs into her own gamemastering.

SWEET MONKEY JEEBUS THEY FINALLY RELEASED GURPS ABYDOS.

This is even more legendary than Up Harzburk!, in terms of GURPS availability. And you can buy it as a PDF here.

Sweet.

Just as a guess...

...GURPS Characters is outselling GURPS Campaigns in PDF form because your typical gaming group usually favors having multiple copies (as in, one per player, plus one for the GM) of character generation rules and power/spell descriptions, and usually only needs one or two copies of the combat/setting information.

But that is, of course, merely a guess.

Gary Gygax, 1938-2008

He was 69 years old.

No bad jokes, obviously, although he might have appreciated some. My sympathies and best wishes to his family and loved ones.

Via Ace of Spades (warning: political site).

Ken Hite's Adventures Into Darkness[!]

The blurb for it goes, What If Lovecraft Wrote Comic Books? - and then proceeds to answer the questions in a 48 page PDF for Mutants & Masterminds. Which is not a game I own or play, but which is owned by a company (Ronin Arts) with the mother-wit to pay Ken Hite to write things for them, so I am already well-disposed towards the RPG.

Adventures Into Darkness is essentially divided up into three parts: a quick pseudo-history of Lovecraft's foray into World War II-era comics; background and game descriptions of the various comic book characters themselves; and suggestions on how to integrate Cthulhu Mythos material into Golden Age comics campaigns. The advice looks good, but I was mostly distracted by the first two sections, which are full of in-joke goodness (at least, for fans of Lovecraft. I presume that true comic book enthusiasts have their own funservice). At ten bucks for a PDF, it's worth it for the chuckles and shout-outs - and the artwork and layout have the right feel for the era. For that matter, so does the tone. Obviously, HPL didn't write comic books in the 1940s. But if he had, this would have been the gaming supplement that would have been written about them sixty years later.

Check it out.

Last, but not least, I think it's time for another Month of Content.

With a buffer this time, so as to not annoy the wife with the frantic postings at 11:45 PM.

It's good practice, although... whoops! Almost started to whine, there.

I've added Pelgrane Press to links...

...just because.

Anybody who feels like suggesting other game sites, feel free.