Apotheosis of the Invisible City

A gaming blog discussing my thoughts and impressions on tabletop RPG gaming in general, and my GURPS Renaissance-tech campaign in particular.

03 February 2022

30 (+) Obnoxious Cultural Traits

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There's a current (well, recently necroed) thread on my favorite gaming forum of 101 Obnoxious Cultural Traits .  Diving right in, herew...
31 January 2022

A Tribute NPC: Valthor

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On the gaming forum I most patronize, there's been a  character creation challenge running the last month: come up with a new character...
20 January 2022

GURPS Apocrypha (part II) - Magic

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(Following my prior post.  This does NOT include the reordering of colleges I've done, the vast number of new spells, or me tearing down...

GURPS Apocrypha -- Basic Set changes

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(Provoked by a discussion on the Reddit GURPS board, this goes page-by-page through the Characters book) p.10     The point cost for creatin...
23 December 2021

The Village of St. Chanan's

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I am active on the RPG Pub , my gaming forum of choice.  There's a topic about usable gaming content in blogs, and I figured I'd tak...
28 November 2021

Designing A Fake Cult

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As I’ve said before, RPGs generally suck at portraying religion.  My quote from seven years ago is that all most RPGs give us are variations...
21 November 2021

Tidbits: Game Of Thrones

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And in another one of my rants from the forums ... ( ForumDood: Of course, the TV version decided to at least double the apparent size of it...
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Northampton, MA, United States
Hello there; I'm Bob Traynor. I've been gaming since the 70s, when me and my high school friends Laurey and Marilyn went on a whirlwind 10-hours-a-day-three-straight-days run through the wild and intense world of the Empire of the Petal Throne. Since then I've played RPGs; GMed RPGs; run tournaments; been a convention speaker; written for SJ Games, Iron Crown, Gamelords and Mayfair; designed a homebrew; playtested RPGs; moderated the gaming tracks at Worldcons ... this is one of the enduring things I've done in my life. Down through the years, I've had some strong opinions. Read this blog, and you'll have some of them inflicted upon you.
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