Mailanka's Musings

  At the GM’s option, henchmen without character sheets have an effective skill of 10 + absolute value of BAD: 11 at -1, 12 at -2, and so on...

As an alternative to detailed modifiers, the GM can set a sin- gle difficulty – the Basic Abstract Difficulty (BAD) – that covers all aspect...

 So, here we are, the PDF challenge completed! This has one chapter; The Adventure : which is the adventure. I was really looking forward to...

As I began working on the combat scenes of Tall Tales of the Orochi Belt, I hit on the idea of expanding them from the drab rules of GURPS A...

This isn't one of my regularly scheduled posts, and I hope my patrons will be patient with this, as their discussions have inspired me...

Something hitting from Remote range strikes me as best used as a plot device. - Brett Tamahori First, let me apologize for my lack of po...

"The Force guides my controls!" ―Delta-7 pilot Star Wars often discusses the fact that Jedi made amazing pilots, and during ...

Yesterday I dove into the basic theory of capital ships in my GURPS Action chase update. Today, I round it out with a look at truly long ran...

Currently on my Patreon, if you're a Patron, you get a one week preview of the Action Vehicular Rules, the Space Opera update for the Ac...

My apologies for my absence.  Between illness and family, I've been busy, but also, the topic I had selected to tackle turned out t...

Now that we have an update to our Action Vehicular Combat , integrated the Chase rules, the Dogfighting rules and a few additional expans...

These rules are based on the GURPS Action Chase rules starting on Page 31 of GURPS Action 2: Exploits; this has been substantially updated ...

One of the reasons I wanted to step away from GURPS Spaceships is that it seems less compatible with the GURPS Action rules than I would lik...

One thing I’ll need to handle if I get into fighters vs cap-ships, I need to see how high-speed craft work against slower, sea-bound craf...

Every once in a while, the GURPS blogger community forms a wave of ideas.  Someone will post something, and then other people, inspired by t...

Seldon Crisis: Battle by AdamBurn You seem to want a system for whooshing space opera battles between fighters and capital ships.   GUR...

Now that we've adjusted the rules accepted that GURPS Action can serve as the engine for our Psi-Wars campaign, we can also revisit the ...

GURPS Action! Previously, we grabbed a few core elements from Space and Ultra-Tech and used them to rapidly prototype our campaign, and...