Boating in a storm without modern stabilizers can be difficult.
This is a summary of the fourth session for my Lest Dispelled Golarion GURPS campaign. It is meant to be coupled with a number of different point-of-views written by players in order to paint a picture of what occurred in the campaign.
A storm brews in the waters, a demon fast approaches, and an ooze attacks the PCs on land.
Lots of blubber.
This is a creature constructed as a GURPS creature that took part in the Lest Dispelled Golarion campaign. It is a conversion from Pathfinder SRD content and was generated as a random aquatic/shore encounter.
This grotesque mass of blubber and rancid flesh piles up hideously upon itself, opening a vast maw filled with teeth. 1
This particular creature appeared in the Lest Dispelled Golarion GURPS campaign I was running when the PCs were forced off coastal waters and onto the Varisian coast by an unnamed storm demon. Their unfortunate run-in with this creature was met with very little joyous celebration.
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Acquired from Pixiv Id gallery on Zerochan.
A random encounter in my Lest Dispelled GURPS Campaign had resulted in the introduction of a wandering gnome merchant who possessed a bag with what seemed like an endless supply of low-cost knick-knacks and trinkets. Here’s how I model this.
When merchants are established in tabletop roleplaying games, they are typically done so with a very tentative inventory that is not completely stocked with the specific items it may hold. This is because, in reality, this sort of information is not important for the sake of furthering a roleplaying game.
Instead, these inventories are usually considered in the scope of a larger category of items. For example, there are magic item shops and armouries. They would respectively contain various items of their respective sorts with a chance of having more expensive items depending on the size of the city they are held in.
We will use this sort of tenuous definition as a starting point for modelling this in GURPS eloquently.
A friend of mine wrote a very excellent article on defining libraries in a very similar fashion. This is because they face a similar problem of large potential complexity in terms of inventory or collection of books.
In a similar grain, we will establish that the inventory of a merchant is finite and can be finitely described. Using an analogous method found in that same post, we can move further. A template statistic block for a merchant is formulated below.
Merchantering.
Another NPC block for my GURPS campaign, a loose adaptation of the Jade Regent Pathfinder Adventure Path. Not one of the four starring NPCs in this campaign, this particular NPC seems to have come into the campaign as a result of random table rolling, serving both as comic relief and as a companion of the PCs not by his own volition.
Not much is known about Fizzle Fizzlesprout except that he has a bag of holding filled with random knick-knacks and trinkets. He had the misfortune of coming upon the PCs asking them if they wished to buy things and then being subsequently gnome-napped and put onto a boat. Or was it Serendipity?
A depiction of a sleeping woman.
This is a summary of the third session for my Lest Dispelled Golarion GURPS campaign. It is meant to be coupled with a number of different point-of-views written by players in order to paint a picture of what occurred in the campaign.
A still pendulum is a phrase referring to the effective stilling of time as the characters come to a crossroads and must deal with the rearing of heads from different directions. This particular session saw the establishment of a common purpose between strangers, as well as to serve the final necessary backbone of the first module and major arc.