Thursday, December 29, 2016

Leisure in Psi Wars Part 2: Fun and Games

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In designing our distancing mechanisms, we need to be careful not to clutter up our setting.  The point of Psi-Wars isn't  to explore ex...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

So what is there to do around here? Leisure and Art in Psi-Wars

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For a lot of people "Culture" means the fine arts: ballet, museums full of beautiful paintings, exquisite sculptures and the h...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Fine Dining in Psi-Wars: Cuisine and Intoxicants

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"So, what are we eating?" Ever played in an RPG where someone's in a tavern and he goes to order food, then stops and asks w...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Psi-Wars Economics: Trade, Exotic Resources and Money

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First Ship of the Year by Dress-7 We've already touched on Psi-Wars economics when we looked at Psi-Wars infrastructure .  This time...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Psi-Wars Linguistics

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Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English. -Korben Dallas, the Fifth Element In a campaign, language diversity has ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Socially Engineering Psi-Wars: Distancing Mechanisms

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The GM’s most important trick in this kind of campaign is distancing mechanisms: situations, customs, or objects that are alien and perplex...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Psi-Wars and Social Engineering 2: Social Engineering Analyzed

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Just as I did with GURPS Action 2, it's worth going over each page of Social Engineering to see if there's anything that leaps out ...