Mailanka's Musings

Recently SJGames released GURPS Power-Ups 9: Attributes  and my Patrons asked me to review it, so here's my review: Never have I seen ...

Recently I had an interesting conversation over on the Psi-Wars discord.  It started with my statement that I didn't want to see playe...

Sometimes when I'm looking at my statistics, I notice that I'm getting a number of views from a particular source, such as a blog....

Tons of people are doing settings, but that is kinda hard for me to wrap my head around. I love GURPS content, I love spells, powers, adva...

According to some, this is good art According to some, this is not good art I've seen a couple of posts that touch on a topic v...

I've largely already addressed psionics in an Action framework in each individual post.  We can largely see where they fit into the abo...

Cool ideas bro, but does it work? Many RPGs that I enjoyed in my youth, I came to notice over time, are plagued by what I liked to call th...

I played in a Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game once, and it was awful .  To this day I know not the name of a single NPC.  Every fight sce...

Christopher Rice over on Ravens and Pennies is in full rant-mode regarding the cost of advantages , and he's right .  Go over there and ...

My dear and faithful readers, I haven't had the chance to get around to some of my favorite topics, like demonology or history or GURPS ...

I'm always creating page after page of RPG material, but I seldom follow through far enough to create something truly publishable.  I...

RPG.net another RPG communities abound with commentary on the "real purpose" of RPG systems, which are "good" and which ...

So, with Cherry Blossom Rain out of the way, what is my next big project?  Well, some time ago, I discovered Lady Blackbird and handed it t...

A fond pastime of many GURPS-heads is the famed conversion: Take your favorite game, or better, your favorite book or movie.  I've menti...

So, whenever players start to argue over which RPG is better, invariably someone claims whichever game is more "Fun" is the better...

I've followed Sir Lin for quite some time now. He's probably the best game-design theorist I've ever read, and if you care any...