Today I made the decision to build some characters to run new players through “Caravan To Ein Arris“, the freebie fantasy adventure for GURPS. To do this, I grabbed the GURPS Fantasy supplement and used some of the professional templates. These are “first draft” characters built for the scenario but also to keep things fairly … Read More →
Reflecting on my re-reading of David Hargrave’s Arduin material, I realise that the “Old School” was never as homogeneous as many in the community would have us believe today. Hargrave was, perhaps, an outlying force in the hobby – contentious and loathed by some – but he was also a force for creativity and variety. … Read More →
In their seminal book on learning, “Make It Stick“, the authors outline the importance of failure in facilitating the process of generative learning. That is to say that, as we screw up in an endeavor, we learn from our mistakes. Difficulties are to be embraced because true mastery is on the path which embraces such … Read More →
The lands of the Miradon Coast are rich and fertile, an attractive new frontier for the Empire to colonise. You are among the second wave of settlers to seek out a new life on the borderlands of the new world, seekers of wealth and fortune who have come to plunder the lands of the Fallen … Read More →
