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rk of steve jackson games and the art here is copyrighted by steve jackson games all rights are reserved by sj games this material is used here in accordance with the sj games online policy teilen mit share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading 27th dec 2024 gurps worked example leave a comment fantasy real world world building holiday ttrpg worldbuilding fantasy dungeons meet the real world 1 during the christmas season we often like to do some rpg worldbuilding this time we let the mastodon hive mind decide and even if it was technically a tie we settled on the above topic due to perceived interest in the comments victorian et investigators might be in the running again next year as might be fantasy world on a bishop ring banks orbital at first i thought fantasy dungeons meet the real world would be more about real world folks exploring dungeons that had suddenly appeared but someone mentioned it being a popular reverse isekai trope and i think it might be interesting to focus on the dungeon perspective in the first place how do we do that time for another poll not quite first i d like to set out a couple of constraints to the topic most importantly i want to focus on relationships and communities yes you can do a fun romp of dungeon denizens terrorising the countryside or slaughtering low lives who want to kill them and take their stuff but that s not the kind of game i want to tell and neither do my players i m more interested in semi comedic stuff about cultural dimensional misunderstandings and weird physical interactions i d like to have a good helping of narrative realism as opposed to bean counting realism in my roleplaying but that comes second place after making the game fun an extra portion of surrealism will be added to taste not sure where on earth to set it yet and not sure what to focus on fantasy world wise but i m thinking there are some neat options for both germany for kafkaesque bureaucracy and dungeons hidden in weird locations quebéc for surreal dungeon cooking and a mix of remote wilderness and city dungeons ireland for a faerie twist and mythical dungeons the baltic states for pagan roots and a nervous eye towards russia egypt for a good long look at the ethics of plundering ancient treasures and two very different landscapes for dungeons the fantasy world could be undergoing an apocalypse of some kind dungeons are good shelter against some of those it could be beginning its own age of exploration maybe sending ancient underground places of power to other dimensions or using some sort of gate technology it could also be in a peaceful state at least compared to us and has to improvise to defend its dimensionally unmoored homes grave sites from those violent humans or they could be just here to trade after having miscalculated rather severely all of these could conceivably change the physics side of the equation so i m going to wait for the poll results before i settle on how magic and other supernatural powers work same goes for technology in the dungeon and possible real world correspondences where we need a lot in the way of a game engine i m going to use my default option gurps but i m also reading robin d laws hillfolk rpg and might incorporate bits and pieces as i go along gurps is a registered trademark of steve jackson games and the art here is copyrighted by steve jackson games all rights are reserved by sj games this material is used here in accordance with the sj games online policy teilen mit share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading 27th dec 2024 16th feb 2025 gurps review leave a comment fantasy magic pyramid world building bite sized review pyramid 3 01 tools of the trade wizards getting an ebook reader means i finally have some more time to read through my extensive and mostly unread collection of gurps pdfs since it s mainly snatches in public transport and before bed pyramid proves to be better for this with its semi short articles let s see how long i can keep it up facts authors matt riggsby sean punch steven marsh andy vetromile stefan jones matthew pook date of publication 21 11 2008 format pdf only warehouse 23 only page count 48 1 title page 1 content page 2 pages ads price 9 pdf 0 2 per page of content score of 8 10 500 pyramid 3 bundle 4 10 0 091 per page score 10 10 preview https warehouse23 com products pyramid number 3 slash 01 tools of the trade wizards review as all my other reviews this one will be rated according to meat rules stats game mechanics cheese setting characters story sauce form writing style art and generic nutritional substance universal nature adaptability at the end you find a weighted average of those components and a value score that also takes into account price per page the first issue of pyramid 3 starts off with only two gurps features and is for full stop drum only has a two monster stat blocks that tie it to gurps which is way less than in later issues where often only the recommended reading and random thought table weren t explicitly for gurps most of the articles have a gurps y slant though in that the authors did think of the way magic would impact the world or stories in my definition that makes it more cheesy fluffy than meaty crunchy theme wise it s solid even though you could argue that neither a guildhall nor being mysterious is a physical tool of the trade but that s splitting hairs the only odd one out is the full stop drum which still ties into gurps alphabet arcane which sort of ties it back to the tools motif meat the main meat article actually deals with flesh more specifically undead flesh necromantic tools by sean punch 5 pages shows aspiring death mages how to graft undead arms to their bodies how to make skull tipped wands and a better way to deal with the usual zombie horde as an ally group incidentally providing a considerable upgrade to the lackluster zombie template from gurps magic the staffs are a little on the boring side but the rest has a lot of meaty detail apart from that there are just the monster stats from the full stop drum and a couple of hints scattered through the other articles the living zombies and the giant badger are nice with the former being more generally useful all in all nothing bad some really good stuff but not a whole lot meat score 7 cheese this is where the issue really shines matt riggsby s the guildhall of the hermetic brotherhood 10 pages shows what a magical disputation society come regulatory body research fellowship might look like in a quasi medieval fantasy setting despite the title the focus is evenly split between the organisation and the building itself with the organisation being quite a bit more interesting disregarding the fact that guilds were normally not kingdom wide organisations matt s take on the whole thing is quite realistic and interestingly written the guildhall fits the quite mundane nature of the society alongside the six pages of text we get four pages of battlemaps with hexes for the guildhall more about those under sauce the only thing that s missing for me are the cellars but depending on the town that s not unrealistic either steven marsh s tooling with curses 5 pages veers into the more immaterial toolbox of wizards and more on the gm s side too we get three interesting non debilitating and somewhat abusable curses and three boxes and a lead in on the more general topic of when and why to use curses a very nice and tight selection even though i d have preferred one more curse maybe next we get an uncredited instruction of how to fold a wizard s letter 5 pages with steps simple enough for me to follow the example letter ties things back to the hermetic brotherhood again which is nice the letter is a neat prop but nothing extraordinary i m a bit mystified as to why they provided the blank back of the letter too but maybe they thought it was a nice parchment y colour for printing out i think there are better options for that but let s not quibble about a first issue andy ventromile s out of the rough magic gems in rpgs 6 pages is a short but thorough system neutral treatment of the use of gemstones in fantasy magic it covers many aspects and of course the use of powerstones in gurps makes this especially interesting to gms and players in sjg s house system but everything is kept generic andy gets a little side tracked in politics in the middle but it s still interesting stuff just would have liked to see such in a longer treatment there are only six types of gems and one of them is pearls treated individually so don t come looking here for correspondences you can find those in gurps thaumatology stefan jones is for full stop drum 3 pages and really awkward to quote something with so many apostrophes quotation marks in a row is the odd one out in this issue it describes a clan based swamp fisher society that while it uses magic and has some ancient magical history can really only claim a link to theme by way of being part of gurps alphabet arcane spoiler the eponymous drum is very much not a tool for wizards except in the sense of bringing about the apocalypse so how does it fare as a description of a society and its past it s a decidedly mixed bag there is some interesting colour but descriptors such as savages a tradition of contests to gain more women and rigid separate gender roles weren t en vogue in 2008 and certainly aren t today i d charitably call it a homage to lovecraftian and leave it at that what can you do with the whole thing not much unless you really want to bring about or prevent an apocalypse and not a very interesting one at that but see the meat section random thought table seriously mysterious 2 pages by steven marsh is thankfully quite a bit fresher and talks about why and how to make wizards look mysterious with a lot of useful tips on how to pull it off in game again this is a generic article but it s quite easy to tie it in to gurps and most systems that have skills it s more tricks of the trade actually but it plays around with some common tropes showing ways to subvert them a very fun read the humour section was quite mixed again murphy s rules was fun at the time and it was nice seeing frederick brackin s name in print again a big gurps fan and supporter may he rest in peace items found in a dead wizard s satchel made me chuckle but the fnordplay left me stumped and i wasn t the only one title was fun at least for a second article andy vetromile gives us recommended reading tools of the trade 2 pages which at a first glance is more about wizardly boardgames but the author does include some nice ways to use board game materials in your rpgs as well as pointing out some interesting ways of working magic in deadlands and unknown armies not an absolute must read but a nice little addition the second recommended reading wizards and gaming 2 pages by matthew pook is about a 2008 review of wizardly ttrpgs and a good helping of how wizards work in d d 4th edition it hasn t aged too well e g even gurps had a supplement about a magic school by now but still has some interesting bits if you like older games last words 1 page features an interview with chad underkoffler which again gives some helpful characterisation tips a nice way to close the issue all in all there is some pretty good stuff in there with only five pages falling below average cheese score 8 sauce while the writing is above average to pretty good the same cannot be said of the art the cover is nice but was already seen in gurps fantasy the humour page had one decent and new image and a tired old one and there are three more reused third edition illustrations that serve little purpose other than providing visual way points what else there are the folding instructions for the wizard s letter and while these are not especially inspiring they do serve their purpose better than many online tutorials i ve seen then there s the map of the guildhall by matt riggsby i ve never been a big fan of his maps and this one looks straight out of a campaign cartographer 3 tutorial but it does help with visualising the place also it can be used as a battle map minus points for not providing battle maps as an image file though virtual tabletops were a thing back then too and so were printers in the end this comes in slightly above average which is still pretty good for gurps standards unfortunately sauce score 6 generic nutritional substance as far as roleplaying supplements about magic go this one is pretty generic it favours traditional fantasy but not completely several articles can be used in many kinds of settings it does pretty much require some sort of fantasy though being about magic after all generic nutritional substance score 7 summary i remember not liking this issue much when i first read it but that might have been due to the fact that i loved the online pyramid with its weekly offerings and disliked the map a lot i might not have read it from cover to cover because my time for that was rapidly diminishing re reading it now i d say it s a roughly average issue of pyramid 3 certainly not the best entry point in the series but not bad either and a fine zine in its own right it s more generically useful than many of the later issues too even outside of gurps if you are planning on buying the pyramid 3 bundle for 500 you get an even better deal but maybe grab some issues from the middle of its run first or read them over a friend s shoulder to see whether it s your cup of tea back in the day all of us online subscribers got this even cheaper as part of half a year subscription deal meaning we paid less than 20 for 54 in product i want to say that i still think this was extremely generous on the part of sjgames total score 7 3 total score is composed of a weighted average of meat 40 cheese 25 sauce 20 and generic nutritional substance 15 this is a meat oriented book a cheesy setting or drama orientied book would turn the percentages for cheese and meat around value score 7 65 8 65 as pyramid 3 bundle value score is composed of the average of total and price gurps is a registered trademark of steve jackson games and the art here is copyrighted by steve jackson games all rights are reserved by sj games this material is used here in accordance with the sj games online policy teilen mit share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading 9th oct 2024 27th dec 2024 conventions gurps worked example 1 comment player characters the owl house the owl house rpg charakterbögen sorry english speaking folks i don t have english sheets or character synopses but hopefully these are at least interesting to look at hier die charakterbögen für das con spiel am 19 10 ari ist ein waschechter geek wie aus dem bilderbuch wurde aris 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