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 New on the Menu (2005 August 1)
New content! Unbelievable! It's an overview of Your Chef's wishes for GURPS 4e, and which of those the game actually delivered. Of interest to the gear-heads, as usual.
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House Special: GULLIVER Buffet
Subtitled "Rules Upgrade for GURPS", GULLIVER is a big expansion focusing on the physical aspects of characters: building and gaming life forms of any shape or size. Your GURPS Vehicles for creatures, with a good dose of biomechanical science as its base.
You'll also find reader-contributed goodies, including a data file for GURPS Character Assistant.
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 GULLIVER v5.3
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04/04/12
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The original, full HTML-based supplement, in multiple books.
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GULLIVER LITE v1.1
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04/04/12
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All the good stuff from GULLIVER, in 24 low-calorie PDF pages.
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condiments
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04/04/12
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Tasty add-ons and play aids from Guest Chefs.
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Head to the buffet table with frames / without frames
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Side Orders
Classic dishes from old-world recipes!
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GLAIVE v2.0
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04/04/12
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GLAIVE -- GURPS Light Arms Invention Expansion. Rules about weapons and the skills to use them, incorporating a very simple rule for tying weapon weight to damage, plus the Weapon Design System previously found in GULLIVER. (Update to v2.0 on 04/04/12)
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COSH v2.2
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04/01/04
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COSH -- Combat Skill Hack. Now in a page of its own, COSH is a super-simple toolkit for modifying combat skills -- or inventing brand new ones. Trust me, this one is fun.
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FEND v1.0
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03/04/28
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FEND -- Fully Enabled Defenses. Why do defense rolls, and nothing else, use the odd "skill/2" mechanic? What if defenses were rolled like any other skill? A simple look at a simple topic.
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ESCARGO v1.1
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02/12/01
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ESCARGO -- Exponential Skill Costs: A Radical GURPS Option. A quirky idea that abolishes the difference among skills, specialties, maneuvers, superskills... even styles. More game design musings for the morbidly geeky. (Update to v1.1 on 03/01/26)
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Gird Yer Loins! v1.2
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02/12/27
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Two quick, partially fleshed-out ideas for armor in GURPS. The first is a simplification: drop PD from the game! The second is a complication: an "Edge Protection" stat for armor, for more realistic simulation. (Update to v1.2 on 03/06/15)
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T. Bone's Miscellaneous House Rules v2.0
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01/08/01
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The Chef's house rules that didn't get absorbed into GULLIVER. Organized by degree of change to the game, so you can stick with exploring the milder green Tabasco tweaks, or delve right into the spicy stuff.
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Star Frontiers --> GURPS v1.3
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01/08/01
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Your vintage Star Frontiers characters travel through a mysterious space-warp. . . into the richer, better-supported, and way deadlier world of GURPS.
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The House Whine
A blend of varietals and seasonals, but always dry. Very dry. Random essays and musings from the chef.
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The New GURPS Delivers... Or Does It? v1.0
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05/08/01
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The article below spelled out Your Chef's wishes for a GURPS 4e. This article flips through the new tomes' pages and asks: Delighted? Or denied?
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Ingredients for a Better GURPS v1.1
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02/04/14
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A quarter million words of GULLIVER and house rules, saying "here's one way to do this, here's another for gearheads only, and here are more options if you've got the time..." All fine and good, but what's the final answer? What would Your Chef actually suggest for a real Basic Set 4?
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Mumbles from the Kitchen
Why is the chef talking to himself (and does he really wash his hands before kneading the dough)? Miscellaneous mutterings overheard by harassed wait staff. Listen in:
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FAQ!
Questions put to the Chef by diners and those pesky Health Board Inspectors:
Q: I see errors...
A: Send 'em in! Many readers have helped a lot by sending in notices of errors. Even notice of a typographical error is appreciated. I hate typos.
Q: Can I link to your page?
A: Please do! Your own web page with home-brewed additions or modifications to stuff at the Diner, or just a link to these pages, is a fine and good thing. You don't need permission for either. Please set links to T. Bone's GURPS Diner at http://www.gamesdiner.com/gurps/ . An email notice sent to me is also appreciated.
Q: Can I create and post my own material borrowing from your stuff?
Sure! My only humble requests:
- Copyright: The material is the property of tbone@gamesdiner.com. Please note the copyright and distinguish between my property and your own. Please don't copy or repost huge sections of GULLIVER, offer it on your own servers, or misrepresent ownership.
- Credit: Please detail what was borrowed from the Diner -- what specific rules, and with what modifications of your own. That's not only so I get credit for what I created, but also so that you get full credit for what's actually yours.
- Link: Please include a link to the Diner, as outlined in the question above.
- Formats: Whatever you create, you're free to post and send those files in any format you like. But files in open formats are greatly appreciated -- it's not nice to ask people to pay tithes to software moguls for the right to view your file. Text or clean RTF is a far kinder choice than MS Word, for example.
- Drop a line: I'd be interested in seeing your work once posted.
Q: Even for my own RPG?
A: The material is copyrighted, so your checking is appreciated! We should find it simple to agree on terms for using content in a non-commercial product. Proper credit, including what was borrowed and in what form it appears (simplified, heavily modified, as-is, etc.), plus a link to the Diner, are the basics. Use in a commercial product would entail more discussion. Either way, drop a line and let's talk.
Q: I have questions/comments about GULLIVER.
A: That big supplement merits its own FAQ. Please take a look here.
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Comments from Diners
Graffitti found etched into the Diner's Formica tabletops:
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I've been reading EVERYTHING from your diner, and its all very high quality material...I use a ton of it in my game.
-- J.S.
There is a displacement ton of excellent suggestions for GURPS on your site, and I hope SJG is picking your brain for 4e.
-- M.B.
A great site for the GURPS enthusiast (especially the very enthusiastic enthusiast), the GURPS Diner contains a great collection of house rules and commentary on my favorite roleplaying system. Of particular interest is GULLIVER, a truly huge expansion to the physical aspects of character-building. GULLIVER is billed as "your GURPS Vehicles for creatures, with a good dose of biomechanical science as its base"
-- Tribblescape
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Just stumbled onto your site and have spend the last two days happily crunching numbers... major kudos, this is what physics class should have been like.
-- N.H.
I've been a huge fan of your gulliver work for years. I design all of my new races for my games based on your rules and they're so much richer for it. I also enjoy reading the short new pieces you put up on your Diner page, especially Gird Yer Loins and ESCARGO. Keep up the good work!
-- D.B.
..."thank you" for spending the time and effort to make gaming more understandable and therefore more fun. Your expansions and alterations on GURPS have been a huge help in my RP sessions and are very appreciated. I wish to say once again that you've compiled a fantastic resource of rules and details, and that your work does not go unappreciated.
-- K.C.
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Other Spots for Grub
Because you sure don't want to eat here all the time...
Below is a beginning list of places that link to the GURPS Diner or to pages within. If your page needs to go here, give a yell. And if you would like to link to the Diner, see the FAQ above.
Gamestalk.com GURPS page
Unofficial GURPS pages
Links to SJG
Quillo Touring Club (Italian)
Planar Gaming System Reference Page
DRoSI GURPS (German)
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