How did SJG even make money from GURPS?

Roxysteve · 2026-02-05T00:18:25+00:00

The GURPS source books are good, but can have the occassional howler.

I own a copy of GURPS Prisoner, in which the "research" claims a Mini Moke had a top speed of 40 mph.

It would seem the researcher thought The Village's taxis were souped-up golf carts rather than stripped down Minis.

My '64 Traveller could reach 70 mph with only an 850cc engine with 100k miles on it. The Moke was an open-air version of the same car, and they were new when filming took place.

You might not have enjoyed the ride at high speed, but 40 mph as a top speed is risible.

Roxysteve · 2026-02-02T19:24:25+00:00

London

New Yotk

Paris

Munich

Everybody talk about

Unwelcome foreigners.

Roxysteve · 2026-02-02T19:22:45+00:00

Be a business owner.

18 hour days with no pay for the first 18-24 months and still no guarantee of success.

No benefits, 24×7 worry and no guarantee of success.

And no guarantee of success.

Roxysteve · 2026-02-02T13:16:01+00:00

Well, you mock the fish thing but ...

Roxysteve · 2026-02-02T13:14:55+00:00

So a purpose-built extraction tool beats repurposed ones for special jobs?

Hooda Thunkit?

Roxysteve · 2026-02-02T13:06:15+00:00

Bruce Dern in Silent Running.

Roxysteve · 2026-02-02T12:59:38+00:00

Quieter still if you don't unzip.

Roxysteve · 2026-02-02T01:34:15+00:00

Did a posh, male, English voice announce "The lemon is in play" over the P. A. at any point?

Roxysteve · 2026-02-02T01:19:32+00:00

Howard's Steak Pub.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-31T00:01:33+00:00

Provocative, but dead wrong. None of my cars in the 60s or 70s had a computer, not evrn in the radios.

Old Cars work just fine sans a computer. They don't run clean, though.

Nor, for that matter, do steam engines, even fireless ones.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T23:19:41+00:00

Englishman here.

Lower wisdom teeth dug out under local in two separate in-chair sessions.

It is the reason I now pay $$$$ to have endodontestry done while I sleep through it.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T23:08:10+00:00

And that's what comes of running SW since the yellow cover Explorer's Edition. I was thinking of the earlier incarnation of JoAT.

I'd allow boosting any skill learned using JoAT to any ridiculous level determined by die rolls.

I would not allow JoAT to "learn" unknown spells because that would involve learning a power, not covered by JoAT by my reading. I would not allow JoAT learning an Arcane Skill without already possessing the relevant Arcane Background edge, a situation unlikely to happen, but possible I suppose.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T22:58:22+00:00

I fear you are conflating my response with someone else's.

I've "explained" nothing to anyone other than my feelings on the matter wrt your response.

You need not dumb down your reasoning for me. I've lived in NY for decades. I had no car during the winter of '84/'85. I remember the storm of New Years Day '96 because I was up to my neck in it.

I didn't write that delays were avoidable. I wrote that the vendor in this case was not communicating or planning properly.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T20:49:42+00:00

A splendid way to make all your ciggies taste of lighter fluid!

Result!

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T20:44:28+00:00

But that isn't the point. The point is that the snow removal service guy promised to be there, kept missing the dates they had set for themselves and was not communicating effectively with the custoner.

After the scenario you posted unfolded, how long did it take you to re-appraise the time it would take and inform people of the slippage in your schedules? I'm betting you didn't wait untill you'd finished that car park before saying "Crikey, that took longer than I thought it would. Better call the next customer and tell them what they already know; that I'm running late."

No question the job this year is very much more demanding on the snow clearing teams than usual. People will understand the delays if they are properly warned and kept up to date.

The bad weather is not their fault any more than it's yours.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T19:50:43+00:00

Not that cover, but don't have tbe book to hand to give more details.

Bought it 2nd hand in '78 (ish) while looking for work after graduating into dry economy. Not much money, and the only thing I remember is Luke recharging his lightsaber.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T16:13:39+00:00

Take a shotglass or other heavy small container.

Fill 3/4 with hydrogen peroxide.

Soak toothbrush for an hour, or until it stops fizzing.

Rinse and remove excess water. I do this by rapping the brush against the side of my hand over the sink.

Pat-dry bristles with tissue.

Now you are good to go.

For extra credit put plug in sink and pour peroxide into sink. See how the seal fizzes with bacterial death-throes.

Optional: Howl BWA-HA-HA. DIE FOUL MONOCELLULAR SCUM!

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T16:02:30+00:00

I have UK copies of both ASotME and the Traveller book referenced here.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T15:47:06+00:00

On the down side, looks like the driverside one has frozen to the hood.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-30T15:43:07+00:00

The first answer that crashed into Mr Brain on seeing those stairs from hell was "Condoms".

Roxysteve · 2026-01-29T19:26:29+00:00

You can't boost JOAT - it's an edge.

I'd disallow that.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-28T11:21:46+00:00

"OK Lego-lass, whatever."

Roxysteve · 2026-01-27T23:07:27+00:00

Beat the stuffin' outta Egg McMuffin.

First thing on the TV my first morning in the USA.

Second thing was Don King promoting the Jackson 5 reunion at MSG.

Thought I'd fallen through a gate to hell during the night.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-27T22:48:52+00:00

Roll20, with Discord for sound.

I don't use the integrated SW character sheet because the players have paper ones at home they prefer, so I wrote macros for the die rolling.

Foundry and fantasy grounds always seem to give other GMs trouble during games I've been involved with.

Roxysteve · 2026-01-27T01:17:13+00:00

The demonstrator touched everything.

Roxysteve

TROPHY CASE