GURPS: Lon's House Rules

The Ficke Adventure Lon's Games page

Magic

• Variable Fatigue - This breaks all those step-functions (at skill+5 you get -1 fatigue, fewer gestures, etc.) into a continuum which (I think) is more in the spirit of GURPS. I like these a lot.
• Other Magic House Rules - some less-used ideas on librams and magic-related skills
• Ley Lines - some ideas inspired by the mythology of the British Isles and described in GURPS book "Places of Mystery".

Combat

• Ranged Weapons ...
  • no defense (dodge, block, or parry). Cinematic and super campaigns can do what they want, but for the 'realistic' (yeah right, with magic and dragons, et. al) there is no defense...
  • 'All-out-defense: erratic movement' gives -2 for the archer/gunman to hit.
• slam -- a collision, see Slam Combat card
• crits -- always do max damage
• Perception -- use a full turn ('Concentrate') to see things beyond what is under your nose. This was a good idea (from 3rd Ed. days), but it is hard to enforce.
• Combat Cards - my version

Miscellaneous

• Long Distance Travel - The fatigue you take per mile.
• Strategic Movement Rules - rules governing movement and combat on a 'strategic' map, 100yds / hex.
• Survival - skill summary and common mods
• Dragon Notes - various notes from a campaign that included a half-dragon PC.
• hexmap.svg - a hex map using Scaled Vector Graphics. Note the args that let you modify the map.
• hexmap-bckgnd.svg - another hexmap, but with a background (args:'img=url' & 'zoom=pct')
• gurps database - my home-brewed character and campaign editor
• gaming wiki - campaign notes, house rules, Pirates, etc. Easier for me to add content than the HTML pages.