(For those who came in late: this is the fourth session of my GURPS solo-play campaign. Instead of a GM, I use a big collection of procedural tables (see the tabs above!). The campaign is set in a fantasy world I created from scratch in in a previous series of posts, using a procedural world-creation… Continue reading The Adventures of Temian Fell – Episode 4 – The Castle of Heirloom Peak
In the very first post, I said that I expected the blog to last “a few months, tops, with quite irregular posting”. Well, The Collaborative Gamer has now been up and running since early January, which means it’s now two and a half months old. This means I’ve kind of met my initial goal –… Continue reading Thoughts about the blog, 2.5 months in.
(For those who came in late: this is the third session of my GURPS solo-play campaign. Instead of a GM, I use a big collection of procedural tables (see the tabs above!). The campaign is set in a fantasy world I created from scratch in in a previous series of posts, using a procedural world-creation… Continue reading The Adventures of Temian Fell – Episode 3 – The Journey to Heirloom Peak
(For those who came in late: this is the second session of my GURPS solo-play campaign. Instead of a GM, I use a big collection of procedural tables (see the tabs above!). The campaign is set in a fantasy world I created from scratch in in a previous series of posts, using a procedural world-creation… Continue reading The Adventures of Temian Fell – Episode 2 – The Witch of Dunmoss
Since I suspect my solo campaign is soon going to need it, I’ve just posted the bare bones of my system for creating monsters during play. Basically, the idea is that whenever the larger collaborative play system determines that you’re encountering a monster, you start by… Rolling to determine how many monsters, and how dangerous… Continue reading Auto-Generated Monsters for GURPS!
Lately I’ve been thinking a little about how GURPS treats languages. This element of the system is kind of brilliant in ways I’ll explore in a moment – and yet it still never quite does what I want it to. I’d be interested to learn whether or not others have had the same experience. Q:… Continue reading Languages in GURPS – some thoughts.
So my solo play campaign had its first session this week. How did it go? The short version: really well! I had a blast. Hopefully it was fun to read about, too. The longer version? Well, that’s what this post is for! Positives I had a blast! There was no GM and no adventure… Continue reading Reflections on the first session.
(For those who came in late: this is the first post in my GURPS solo-play campaign. Instead of a GM, I use a big collection of procedural tables (see the tabs above!). The campaign is set in a fantasy world I created from scratch in in a previous series of posts, using a procedural world-creation… Continue reading The Adventures of Temian Fell – Episode 1 – One Evening at the Phoenix…
(For those who came in late: having created a new fantasy world from scratch using this procedural system, I’m now creating a hero to explore it – and to star in my upcoming solo-play campaign. Enjoy!) So we’ve named our hero Temian Fell, and we’ve created his character sheet. Now it’s time to get him… Continue reading Temian Fell’s Loadout
(For those who came in late: having created a new fantasy world from scratch using this procedural system, I’m now creating a hero to explore it – and to star in my upcoming solo-play campaign. Enjoy!) Well, now that I’ve given him a name – Temian Fell – I need to stat this guy up. … Continue reading Introducing Temian Fell, All-round GURPS Hero
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