The Gaming Den

There's a development thread, and most of the links to the working draft should still work.

So, in Space Madness! that are six principal cosmic forces, each of which has five levels of power plus a blast. The abilities are generally open-ended, powered by charges, and designed to remain relevant at basically every level of play that a human PC can operate on. They are equally accessible to...

OSSR: Cyberworld 7: Technology https://staceylauren91.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/greyhound.jpg AncientH High Tech & Low Life. Where Man Meets Magic & Machine Cyber punk. The whole conception of cyberpunk isn't so much set on a specific period as much as it is the future where technology ha...

Forcible impregnations appear a lot in fantasy because...well, rape fantasies and pregnancy fantasies are common, and RPGs are inherently a fantasy genre. I can't throw too many stones here - I did write that one adventure - but it's still a high level of squick for a lot of people. It's why everybo...

In-setting, it would be good to work up a mechanism for why this works. I like the general idea of "The power was in you all along," since it keeps you from just trading up your magic sword whenever you find a better one, but having an in-setting explanation for why you can develop such a ...

OSSR: GURPS Cyberworld 6: Pop Goes the Culture https://static.memrise.com/uploads/discuss/6097291000150318144911.jpg AncientH WHAT WE HAVE COME TO When the advertiser saw the cathedral spires over the downs in the distance, he looked at them and wept. "If only," he said, "this were a...

OSSR: GURPS CYBERWORLD 5: Crime and Punishment https://jensgud.blog.is/tn/400/users/5b/jensgud/img/refsing_f.jpg http://thebullelephant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Mikado-5.jpg .gif of a guy saying Yes. Society in the late 20th century waged an escalating war against organized crime. Despite som...

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OSSR: CYBERWORLD 4: Geopolitics http://deceth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/world-domination-pinky-and-the-brain.jpg AncientH So, one of the main weaknesses you might see with regard to Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 20XX is that they were very, very centric to their main setting (Seattle and Night City)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncorhynchus_rastrosus

Sabertooth salmon

OSSR: CYBERWORLD 3: The United States https://hot1047.com/files/2015/07/potusoa-peaches.png They were put there by a man. AncientH The basic assumption remains that this roleplaying product is going to be sold mostly to an American audience who want to play characters in whatever remains of the Uni...

OSSR: CYBERWORLD 2: Campaigns and Characters https://news.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Be-a-cyberhero-FSU-cybersecurity-campaign-urges-online-safety.jpg Not this. Nothing remotely like this. So you're o the Edge. Now what? AncientH So you're on the Edge...now what? Where you gonna go? Whatcha...

OSSR: CYBERWORLD 1: A World on the Edge http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/picture/jimbo056/LivingOnTheEdge.png AncientH In a dark corner of the New York megasprawl, an appliance store faces the street, its vidscreens and thriddie boxes showing snow through the plastiglass storefront. Nobody is on the stre...

OSSR: GURPS CYBERWORLD http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/cyberworld/img/cover_lg.jpg AncientH So, we did GURPS Cyberpunk and we did GURPS CthulhuPunk , but we kind of skipped a step. In between those books, they released GURPS Cyberworld, which was a setting book for GURPS that expanded on the mat...

Space Madness! uses two damage tracks, for mental and physical damage - a sort of compromise between Shadowrun's dual health tracks and Call of Cthulhu's dual hit point/sanity point system. Like Shadowrun, the number of "health circles"/"mental health circles" is set. Unlike bot...

Just one more.

Really sorry.

I think there was an error when it tried to resolve my circle characters.

I'm sorry, it won't let me delete the other posts.

I don't know why that happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_stew

Irish stew purists are hardcore.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_death