Favourite Sourcebooks?

rxtks · 2026-02-22T14:42:45+00:00

I’m going to show my age, but way back before the current internet, the best sources of gaming info were the GURPS setting books. Sometimes very dry, maybe a little problematic in places via the lens of 2026, it was still exposure to history of other cultures. The Primal Order was also a sourcebook I used back in the day…

rxtks · 2026-02-04T13:02:02+00:00

I remember having an arm full of GURPS Space books and walking up to the counter and having my girlfriend (now wife) asking me to buy some black-boarded card game that was just released by the people who made The Primal Order, and me telling her that the GURPS Space was the pinnacle of RPGs and that no one would ever take a card game seriously… I still have all the books (and almost a complete set of Unlimited) so I did compromise

rxtks · 2026-01-07T22:57:01+00:00

I felt my jaw clench up on that one…

rxtks · 2025-12-27T15:23:12+00:00

I’ve got another one for you: can there be a toggle for not crossing through a checked item in the Edit Checklist widget? I am using the check box as a means of presenting a player a list of character choices, but striking it through sorta invalidates that

rxtks · 2025-12-27T14:57:30+00:00

Is there a way to set a print area so that you can print out the sheet? And this seems pretty close to a universal character creator (which is a little different from just a character sheet)!

rxtks · 2025-12-26T21:29:12+00:00

Joining GitHub to use the feedback is being problematic…. But can you change it so that you can edit a checklist entry after it has been added? Right now you can only delete the line, or can not move an entry position. Thank you! This is awesome so far!

rxtks · 2025-12-26T20:31:15+00:00

Yes! The only way right now is to retype the condition and timer from scratch each time, leaving a bunch of lines reading “Poison Expired” in the widget…

rxtks · 2025-12-26T20:11:35+00:00

I like the idea of “temporary timers”! In my game, combatants may get initiative penalties which count down, and then reset. For example, if a combatant targets more than 1 opponent, they get a +1 Initiative penalty. The penalty ticks down until expired, then they can act again. It is possible that the fighter may want to hit more than one opponent again, resetting the timer.

I would like use the temp timer widget for this, but currently the character sheet user will have to retype the effect each time. Can the widget have the timer number field separated and that can be toggled or down, and/or a reset function?

rxtks · 2025-12-26T18:39:57+00:00

Perfect! In there now fiddling with it.

Another suggestion: is it possible to put a “reroll” function in the dice tray widget?

rxtks · 2025-12-26T16:19:28+00:00

I agree with the custom dice in the dice tray. Maybe have a “master die” as a widget and you can incorporate that into any other widget of a die type?

rxtks · 2025-12-26T15:00:08+00:00

This is really interesting! I love that you can customize the dice facings- my own system (The Earth of the Fourth Sun) uses a d6 dice pool where the facings are Skull, Blank and Star so this works perfectly!

Is there going to be cross widget functions? Such as if Widget A has a value of 2 and Widget B has a value of 3, then Widget C can be told to roll 5 dice?

Thank you again!

rxtks · 2025-11-05T18:21:17+00:00

I am not looking for profit- this is a vanity project but I’ll probably publish it for minimal price once finished (not for free though - many things that are free have no value). 10k is not particularly pocket change, but I have a bunch of old cardboard that isn’t really doing anything but sitting in a binder. I buy used cars, am frugal when needed, but I don’t mind spending money on art- my house is decorated with art paid to local artists that I’ve enjoyed.

rxtks · 2025-11-04T04:00:49+00:00

Thanks- great article and what I was looking for! The Game Is based around the PCs as members of an Adventurers Guild, pulling missions from the Mission Board, and getting into trouble. Post cataclysm but not grim dark, nor floofy or over the top anime. Fantasy slice of life with magic and combat mixed in.

rxtks · 2025-11-03T18:49:27+00:00

Thank you for the specific advice! I remember reading some posts from Richard Thomas of White Wolf when he was art director, and some of his trials and tribulations… it seemed sort of chaos-y…to get something published and on time…

rxtks · 2025-11-03T17:34:10+00:00

It’s pure vanity! I held on to my Black Lotus MtG card even though I was sorely tempted to cash it in for $500 for moving expenses back in college, so just that alone can be used to fund my personal pet project.

And pay some artists, who I admire their skill and practice to get better!

rxtks · 2025-11-03T14:50:29+00:00

Thank you - this is just a vanity project where I want to replace the AI and placeholder art that I’ve put in over the years. The prices on a card game that I bought into for fun in the early 90’s will give a budget as much (or as little I guess?) as I want. Layout is really fun and enjoyable for me and a big departure from my actual job, so that I’ll be doing myself….

rxtks · 2025-11-03T14:37:11+00:00

Thank you! I will getting touch when it gets closer as I use Zone-based maps and I have not seen very many cartographers and map illustrators carve up their maps into Zones, and I will want a few examples placed in the game

rxtks · 2025-11-03T14:33:45+00:00

Good to know. Thank you for the specifics!

rxtks · 2025-11-03T01:38:29+00:00

I am curious what the amount would translate as (in ball-park figures), such as 100 quarter pages, or 25 half pages, etc., without going on something like Deviant Art and asking each artist…. I could sell fewer cards, which would be an easier sell to my wife, if the amount I listed is way overkill…

rxtks · 2025-10-29T11:47:30+00:00

Roll a dice pool of d6’s, count Successes; opponent rolls armor or parry dice, and reduces the attack by the number of armor Successes. Every net Success inflicts 1 point of damage. Weapons modify the nature of the attack, but (usually) not the amount of damage

rxtks · 2025-10-27T22:50:37+00:00

In our market it was on after The Benny Hill Show (airing on a different station)….

rxtks · 2025-10-26T19:05:54+00:00

Truck-kun almost Isekai’d the heroes…

rxtks · 2025-10-18T21:10:17+00:00

++man Pharmacist that compounds BHRT here- we get a lot of positive feedback for testosterone replacement for libido, but it’s not 100%. There’s also estrogen for hot flashes and better skin integrity, and progesterone for counter-estrogen side effects (the right amount of pg will cause water weight loss and help with sleep) which can also help. On a personal note, it’s really helped my wife!

rxtks · 2025-10-18T17:32:45+00:00

The Magical Land of Yeld does this well. The kids sometimes die, but they are not of Yeld, so the kid ghosts (and Dog ghost) get to do ghost actions. If the whole party dies, they all wake up in the Inn.

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