Stock up on GURPS PDFs

SJG is doing 15% on $20 or more of electronic goods:

Solstice Sale

If you need suggestions, I wrote a bunch of stuff. I highly recommend DFT3 if you're trying to figure out the magic items I hand out.

Enjoy.

Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Companion 3 - Arrived!

My copy of DFRPG Companion 3 arrived today.

It's a meaty book, printed out, at least by DFRPG standards. 174 pages, softcover.

Three of my articles are in there - one each on equipment kits (which I need implemented in GCS somewhere), one on spell components (which my players don't seem to like very much), and one of monsters (which I like very much.)

I'm much more likely to use monsters I have in front of me in print; not necessarily with art, but in print. So expect more of Sean's prefixes and monsters to show up in my game now I can look at them while flipping through a book.

Fun stuff - I like having this in print to peruse.

DFRPG Companion 3 on the way!

I got a shipping notice for a copy of DFRPG Companion 3!

I'd kind of let this one slide out of my awareness. I'm excited to see it in person . . . it's always nice to get a physical copy of something you contributed to.

It's available here.

GURPS Sale

There is a brief GURPS sale going on, 10/5 - 10/9:

Or click here.

Some of my books are in the list, too - GURPS Martial Arts, for one!

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 22: Gates for sale

I think I totally missed this. But DF22: Gates is available for sale on Warehouse 23.

It's $4. I don't get royalties on it - it was a flat-rate contract - but I do get enjoyment out of people reading it. So if you missed the 2021 PDF Challenge and want to include gates in your DF/DFRPG game, have at it!

What Felltower Stuff to Show？

I've posted some house rules from Felltower, our summaries, and whatnot.

SJG has published four books with elements of Felltower in them:

Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 3

DFTT3: Artifacts of Felltower

DF21: Megadungeons

DF22: Gates

Plus an Pyramid article or two featuring elements of the game.

So what else do people really want to see? I don't have control over what SJG will publish, but I do have control over what I write up at least. I figure only a few things are off limits:

- PC writeups. Those are PCs in my games but they aren't my PCs.

- Maps. Too much of a nightmare to turn my hand-drawn maps into publishable format.

What would interest you guys the most? Let me see if I can turn some energy into turning that out.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons on sale in Warehouse 23

I'm not sure when this went up, exactly, but I stopped by W23 today coincidentally and saw this note:

Oops! We Overfed The Dungeon
Posted: April 07, 2022

Some GURPS games explore really deep concepts. Some go even deeper. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons provides insight into making really big dungeons, with tips for creating, populating, and enlivening them. Delve deeply into your next campaign with a download from Warehouse 23!

Well, hurrah!

It's $4, and you can finally pick this up if you missed the Kickstarter campaign. I don't get royalties for this - it was a flat payment - but any purchase of a book of mine from SJG helps me get better rates and faster approval on future work. So if this might be useful to you, please pick it up!



If you already own it, please consider giving it a rating. A positive rating might help another decide to pick it up, and spread my work more widely.

Royalties & GURPS Martial Arts

One reason I like royalties, the main reason even? They keep on giving.

GURPS Martial Arts came out in 2007. It sold very, very well - enough that I blew right past the advance and into royalties right away. That was lucrative and satisfying.

2007 was 15 years ago. But I still got royalties this past quarter on 50 copies of GURPS Martial Arts sold as Print on Demand through Createspace. That's besides the steady trickle of PDFs it sells month after month after month.

It's been about 16 years since I wrote that book. So much research in 2004 and 2005. Lots and lots of writing in 2006, and playtesting after that. All that work is long done - yet I still keep getting payments for the work.

That is why I like royalties. If my work has lasting value, I get lasting payments. That's so much more of how I like to view my work.

What do I get royalties on?

So, someone asked what books I get royalties on. Here is the list:

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 12
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 15
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 1
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 3
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Barbarians
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Treasures 3: Artifacts of Felltower
GURPS Low-Tech Companion 2
GURPS Martial Arts (and the POD version)
GURPS Martial Arts: Gladiators

I'll edit later with links.

Now, this is not to say you shouldn't buy my other works - I was paid fairly for them, and the continued sales of them provides incentive for companies to keep offering me work or accepting my proposals. But if you want to buy a book that results in money going to be as a direct result of your payment . . . it's those books, above.

DF 22 Gates is unlocked

Just a quick "Huzzah!" post - my book unlocked. They didn't update the Kickstarter just yet, but huzzah! 1500+ people shall get to see what I write about when I write about gates.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 22: Gates is next!

It's only going to take an easy $27,500 to get DF22 unlocked.



And the campaign is already nearing 1500 backers and is over $22,500. I think it should get to a full unlock, but it's nice to not have so long to wait to know mine will get out there.

GURPS 2021 PDF Challenge is Live!

If you missed the announcement elsewhere, there are 10 days left in the GURPS 2021 PDF Challenge.



My book is one of the later stretch goals. I feel pretty good about that - I take some pride in batting clean-up, or close to it.

I personally went for the $8 level - the books and a PDF on combat by Sean Punch. I think that's a pretty good deal. And if you missed Pyramid Scheme or the 2020 challenge, you can jump in on those, too. You know, if you want GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21 to go with Dungeon Fantasy 22.

Join me in this one, even if only for $3.

Friday Random Links for 7/2/21

Weekly wrap up.

- I still plan to run A2, but I plan to run it on 7/11. Unless my players come up with a really good plan after their delve into Sakatha's island last session. I don't expect so - they didn't really do anything but confirm what they're after.

I did learn they enjoy hexcrawling, though, with procedural travel, so we may need to do some of that in the future.

- My Reaper Bones minis shipped. Sadly, I've mostly stopped painting since between when I pledged and when they'll arrive. We'll see if they inspire me to take up my brush again. If not, maybe I'll just sell the lot on eBay. I doubt I'll back the next one.I don't even remember when I stuck the email with the shipping notice, so figure I'll get a UPS "package arriving tomorrow" notice at some point and it'll just show up. Like Tides of Numenera, it's coming so late (for reasons beyond their control) I've lost a lot of interest.

I'm still a bit grumpy that I barely got my pledge manager stuff locked in at the last minute. Apparantly they posted it as an update, and then emailed all of us delinquent people as a last resort. Well, had they emailed me as a first resort, I'd have locked in my pledge immediately. So I found that a bit annoying . . . and some helpful non-Reaper person gave me snark when I said so in a comment. Just remember, your fans reflect on your company, too . . .

- I'm excited that DF22 will come out. I wish I had any idea of when that would be.

I'm even more excited that my payment for DF22 will come soon. Heh.



Sounds shallow, maybe, but getting paid for game writing is sweet.

- After a break I'm back at Battletech: The Mercenary Collection. I'm into the Flashpoints. They're good, although I'm not sure what the deal is . . . do you usually make a new company to play them out? It just told me where they were and I went for them with Gunhaver and the Cheat Commandos, my campaign-winning crew. My first two missions were a joke. One had me going to fight a high-danger, well-equipped enemy lance. Their heaviest mech was a Wolverine, a 55-ton mech with good staying power and useful firepower. My mechs were a gauss gun-carrying Atlas (100 tons), a gauss-gun carrying Highlander (95 tons I think), an AC/20 mounting Atlas (100 tons), and a 70-ton Archer with two upgrded LRM-20s. We finished the mission without significant armor damage, just down a lot of ammo. It's getting better but I'm still walking through them. I just entered a tournament of champions with mechs provided, so that's a level playing field, but my pilots are all 10/10/10/10 in skills, and we'll see how good the enemy is.

Still amusing but not challenging, just a time waster.

- Speaking of games, War in the East II is out. I'm waiting on it showing up on GoG with a sale, but it looks good. I'm not saying it's not worth $80, just that I can wait on it. I'm still trying and failing to do well as the 1942 Soviets. I'm doing okay but it's hard to figure out how to deal with some situations when you're outgunned and on the defense.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 22: Gates

Here are a few details I can leak about DF22: Gates.

I cover Gates, of course, especially:

- spell and gates

- placement

- use and abuse

- types of gates

- and some sample gates.

I think I crammed a lot into ~10 pages, much as I did with DF21. This time, though, I didn't need the magic editing of Douglas Cole to make it fit. I managed to restrain myself all by myself. That's post-level newsworthy right there, heh.

SJG GURPS 2021 PDF Challenge

So . . . guess which book I wrote?



Kromm already leaked it, but it's not like it would be tough to guess.

Crypt of Krysuvik cover

Doug put up the covers for Delvers to Grow and Crypt of Krysuvik.



It's nice to see my name on such an attractive cover, along with my player and fellow DF GM Marshall LaPira.

I can't wait to see this in print.

Links & Thoughts for 6/11/2021

Assorted stuff for Friday.

- This is an interesting take on an "origin" for beholders. It would fit well in a GURPS Fantasy II: The Madlands game. There, all of the really horrible things that will kill you used to be humans like you. Soulless, skinless, boneless . . . creepy stuff.

- The Reaper Bones V Kickstarter is finally shipping soon. I think I might have all the minis I need, though . . . I'm not really excited about getting more. I was already painting less pre-pandemic, and here during the (tail end of the?) pandemic I've painted almost not at all. I love minis but painting hasn't been something I've been able to keep up. We'll see what I do with the minis when the arrive.

- I probably won't have a game system that can run this . . . but I'll want to get one:



- Let's learn about Romans.

- Crypt of Krysuvik production is still moving along.

- I owe some work on my DF book, too, and I'll do that this weekend. Time for quotes! It would have been nice if I thought to find some ahead of time.

- Want to sell your TSR stuff? Noble Knight has a wishlist with prices.

GURPS book - done!

My latest Dungeon Fantasy book is submitted, edited, and turned back to me for review. I added in a single little tweak after a re-read, and now it's on to production.

This one should be available pretty soon, in some fashion or another. I'm glad to finally get that in!

In theory, I now have more time to write for my blog. Let's see if I follow through on that - I hope so, I feel bad that writing too books at once, on top of a full-time job and a part-time self-employed thing, has killed my longer-form posts that might be useful to GMs and players alike. Or even short-form posts that actually discuss game content.

Books - in Editing!

Alright, both of my books are in editing.

- Crypt of Krysuvik, by Marshall LaPira and myself, is currently getting a full Doug Cole go-through. He's being appropriately picky, and we've got a draft to read through and turn back in our comments on the edited draft. Still a lot to go.

- Dungeon Fantasy: Not the Breadboxes of Felltower, has been turned in and is now waiting on Nikki or Kromm to edit it. I expect to get a list of revisions to make, potentially, or just get it turned around into a rough production draft if there isn't much to write. It's not terribly crunchy, so probably more "fix Peter's bizarre English" and less "You say 2+2=5, fix that." Either way . . .

Exciting stuff. Leaves me plenty of time to think, gee, I have all of this free time. Why am I not writing something? Hah.

GURPS writing update

My solo GURPS book is almost done.

I'm basically moving things around at this point before I submit it for review prior to official submission.

My hints?

It's connected to stuff from Felltower.

It's Dungeon Fantasy.

It's not that long - think Megadungeons more than Martial Arts.

It's a topic I think GURPS hasn't really given sufficient wordcount to for fantasy gaming.

I'm excited to see it hit "print."