RPG Systems Archive

  • The Joy of GURPS

    The Joy of GURPS

    GURPS is in my Top 5 of all-time awesome RPGs. It’s also a game that doesn’t get played in our group. The question is, “Why?” What is GURPS? GURPS is an acronym for “Generic Universal RolePlaying System”, and is a game created by Steve Jackson…
  • Trekking With The Icon

    Trekking With The Icon

    With all the recent work and talk about Dark Trek it’s time, as a roleplaying gamesmaster, to turn to the matter of which game system to use. For Dark Trek I’ve chosen to dig out a now out-of-print classic: the Icon System, published by Last…
  • Into the Dark Unknown…

    Into the Dark Unknown…

    The Challenge Begins… Last night the KIA SpecOps group began a new adventure for Dungeons & Dragons. The Challenge of Vixoris, as I named the story, is the first adventure that we’ve played using the 4th edition rules that has been home-written. Here then are…
  • The Revelation of 100 Possibilities

    The Revelation of 100 Possibilities

    Yesterday I came home from Continuum 2010, an excellent bi-annual roleplaying convention. Energised and revitalised by the ideas and conversations I had experienced, clutching a copy of the rather cool OpenQuest rulebook, I have been reflecting on what to do next within my own roleplaying…
  • Of Champions & Dragons

    Of Champions & Dragons

    Just wanted to bring you up to speed on what’s been happening in the world of Bruxx.net roleplaying. I cannot believe that a full month has gone by since I last posted… and I can only apologise for that. Champions Right, first off I’ve been…
  • Ubel’s Chalice, Part One

    Ubel’s Chalice, Part One

    September 1939. The German Army was advancing into Poland. Elsewhere on the front, armoured companies were driving into enemy territory. Here, though, the front line advanced on foot and by horse-drawn wagon. As the front line of German troops drew up in the woodlands overlooking the…
  • My Latest Fantasy

    My Latest Fantasy

    The roleplaying hobby is, by its very nature, driven by the people with whom you get to game. Essentially if you have no players then you have no game… unless you play solo using something like Mythic. I’m finding that all of my projects move…
  • Hero System, 6th Edition

    Hero System, 6th Edition

    There is one game system that I have been wanting to try to run for, frankly, years. Hero System was something that I discovered back when the 5th Edition was released. I got to play it when I visited Origins in Columbus, Ohio way back…
  • Why do we play D&D 4th?

    Why do we play D&D 4th?

    Last night we had another fun-filled evening playing through an adventure using the most recent edition of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. We’ve playing this for several months now, every other Friday night (give or take), and the guys seem pretty hooked. I’ve been…