My Life As An Interactive NPC and other such tomfoolery...

Hey there, Gamelings!
It's been a long time... I know. 

I am doing a complete restructuring and re-branding of the blog (including all of our cool new accounts for you to binge-view)!

Unfortunately, however, this isn't a sing-along blog
or maybe it is...
I don't know your life.

To be completely honest with you all, I have been writing, deleting, and rewriting this entry for the longest time. There has been a serious overhaul here at The Pinup Gamer. The most noticeable (on my end) is that I am now the only contributor to this conglomeration of a blog, website, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Instagram.
I won't get too weepy about it but, having lost my contributors and friends, I thought, "Hey.... can I really do this? It's a lot to take on..."
And it is.
That is just how things are, now.
HOWEVER!!!!


I am back and I am ready to commit myself to this.
I got inspiration from someone a while ago...
it was actually when I was part of a panel at the convention I had previously written about. She was next to me on the panel and as we were introducing ourselves, I mentioned that I am the creator of, and main (now only) contributor to, The Pinup Gamer.
She turned to me with wide eyes and said, "OMG! I've read your blog! It's awesome!"




I had never met this woman before in my life.
That, mind you, was ages ago... but that is something that is still a source of motivation for me. Whether you comment, like, share, or do none of those things...
You are out there.
You are reading this.
You exist and you are taking the time out to read what I think about nerdy things.
You might care... you might not.
That doesn't matter to me.
What matters is that you are here in this wonderful, vast, sandbox of a reality and you are all players in this game!
I will be your favourite interactive NPC.
I will be here to provide you with information and such.
Let me help you along your extraordinary quest line and perhaps you will share with me your coin eventually.

So I'm back.
I made it through.
Expect to see some new content coming soon!
Also, don't forget to check and subscribe to my YouTube channel as well as follow me on Twitch to make sure you never miss a live stream or video!!!

 I guess that's about it until next time, gamelings!
Thanks for sticking around and thank you for reading!
I will see you all in the next post or on my channels!

Until next time,

-Tish Terror

GURPS Character Creation: Just the basics! Part 2

Howdy doody, gamelings!

Welcome to PART TWO of our wonderful and exciting GURPS character creation tutorial adventure!!!

Now, where did we leave off?

RIGHT!!! HP, Will, Per, and FP!

These are SUPER simple and are also NOT TAKEN FROM YOUR GIVEN POINT TOTAL!

 HP is equal to the level of your ST! (ST 10=HP 10)

Will is equal to the level of your IQ! (IQ 40=Will 40)

Per is also equal to the level of your IQ! (IQ 20=Per 20)

FP is equal to the level of your HT! (HT  10=FP 10)

 

Moving right along…
Basic Speed:

Basic speed measures reflexes and how fast your character can run,  react, and dodge.

Basic speed is calculated by adding ST and DX together and dividing that amount by 4!

MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT ROUND UP OR DOWN!!!

7.25 is better than 7!!

Dodge:

Dodge is the measure of how fast you can move out of the way of something that is coming at you!

Dodge is calculated by taking your basic speed number (minus any fractions… 7.25=7) and adding 3.

(dodge=7+3=10)

Basic Move:

Basic move is the speed at which your character can run (forrest, run!) and it is equal to your basic speed level without the fractions! (basic speed is 7.25, basic move is 7)!!

 Now that we have those basics down…

Let’s start spending some points, shall we?

How do you look?

Your appearance can affect the way NPCs and other playable characters react to your character so make sure you choose wisely!

There are 7 levels of appearance.

Hideous: You are the ugliest of the uglies to get hit with the ugly stick. In fact, you might just BE the ugly stick! This gives you a -4 on reaction rolls but, hey, you get -16 points! Go ahead and add that to your total, you grotesque little monster.

Ugly: You aren’t getting a date without some serious cosmetic surgery. This gives you a -2 on reaction rolls but gives you -8 points! Enjoy those points all by yourself, Gollum.

Unattractive: You’re not great looking but it’s nothing a makeover montage wouldn’t fix! This gives you a -1 on reaction rolls but -4 points! Go spend them at the makeup counter, sweety.

Average: You are super mediocre! Congrats! This doesn’t have a negative addition to your reaction rolls! It costs no points. However, you also get no extra points…

Attractive: You are “small town pretty”. You aren’t model material but you are most definitely good looking. You get +1 on reaction rolls! WOOO! However, this costs 4 points.

Handsome or Beautiful: You ARE model material and you turn heads occasionally! This gives you a  +4 on reaction rolls made by characters attracted to your gender and a +2 from everyone else. This costs a whopping 12 points!

VERY Handsome or Beautiful: You make heads turn so fast people get whiplash and almost break their necks! This gives you a +6 to reaction rolls made by characters attracted to your gender and +2 from everyone else! Hang onto your hats, though… This costs a whole 16 points!

(Maybe those IQ points you took away should go here… Pretty but not so bright…)

Next up: Charisma!!

Charisma may seem like a crude amalgamation of looks, intelligence, and manners but it is a completely separate thing!!! This can affect influence rolls, leadership and public speaking rolls, and reaction rolls!  It costs 5 points per level but it adds +1 to each of these rolls per level!!!!

I think we've had enough good stuff for a while... Let's move on to something not-so-good.

Now, sometimes we can all be pretty annoying.

Admit it.

Go on… Admit it…

I’ll wait here…

Good.

Even our characters can be pretty darn annoying sometimes. The behaviors that make them this way are called Odious Personal Habits (OPH). The bright side is that these habits will give you -5, -10, or -15 points to use elsewhere (to make up for all of the annoying things you’ll do to those in your party…).

-5 point habit examples: Bad body odor, nervous tics, mumbling, tone-deaf singing, etc.

-10 point habit examples: making everything sound perverted, making a pun for everything, leaving a mess wherever you go, etc.

-15 point habit examples: picking a fight with everyone you meet, trying to sleep with anything and everything, etc.

 

To wrap up this part of our tutorial, I give you: Voice!

This perk costs 10 points but it gives you +2 to any skill that requires speaking or singing AND +2 to any reaction rolls made by someone who hears your voice! 

Cool, right?!?

Next time we will cover Social Background and Wealth & Influence!!

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Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 6 "Blood of My Blood" recap (SPOILERS!!!!)

This post is super duper spoiler-y!!!

So if you haven't seen episode 6 "Blood of My Blood" yet and don't want spoilers:
 LOOK AWAY!!!

AVERT THINE EYES!!!!

RUN FAR, FAR AWAY AND DON'T LOOK BACK!!!

RUN YOU CLEVER BOY AND REMEMBER!!!

wait.... wrong fandom...

awkward...
Anyway...
Moving on...

Sunday's episode had a lot of interesting twists and turns!!! 

Who saw Tommen Baratheon and Margaery Baratheon (Tyrell) joining up with the high sparrow coming? I mean... I, personally, figured Margaery would but I never thought Tommen would join as well! Let's hear it for that awkward moment when Jaime Lannister showed up with an army claiming to represent the king... Who just so happened to be in the sept getting his religion on and came out to reveal that he was indeed on the side of the religious bird-man.

They probably should have checked on the whereabouts of their golden-haired baby-king before storming the Sept "in his name"...

Wait...What is going on?

So that happened and now the separation of church and state is crushed like sparrow's egg between the thighs of the Zangief of religions.

Meanwhile, way up north where the air is cold and the true heroes hold the door (sorry.. I know... It still hurts), Bran Stark and Meera Reed are freezing. Meera collapses on the forest floor and shuffles her way through the snow to Bran who (finally) pops out of warg mode and tells her that the white walkers have found them.
What the shit, Bran?!



Well, right when you think that Bran's story-line is going to come to a quick, pointless, and stupid ending, a mysterious hooded stranger rides in on horseback and sends those icy bastards back to where they belong! But wait... Who is this crazy awesome ice-zombie killer?
None other than Benjen Stark!!!

Where the heck have you been, man?!?
Oh, right. You've been almost turned into a white walker and then saved from that horrible, icy fate. Well, welcome back, Benjen! I am loving how all of these Starks are just popping up out of the snow like daisies!

Moving to a warmer location:

Arya Stark messed up AGAIN! She finally got a second chance to kill someone and become a faceless man (woman?). Jaqen H'ghar tells her that it is her last chance and that either way the many faced god will gain a face. So what does she do? She decides to grow a conscious and saves the person she was going to kill! 

Does this mean that the faceless men are after her now?

Probably.

Does she care?

Not one bit.

 

Bonus: Needle is back and the Stark family has (re)gained one more member!

Continuing on our journey to warmer lands: We have Daenerys Targaryen travelling through the desert with all of her new/regained Dothraki followers. Here she stops the whole dang caravan to prove to us that she didn't take the time to plan things out completely.

"How many ships will I need?"

"Who has that many ships?"

"No one? Well, I will just have to wing it."

These are... Not direct quotes but it sums up the whole conversation she has with Daario Naharis before she disappears and leaves everyone behind twiddling their thumbs.

On the bright side, after she has been gone for quite some time (long enough for Daario to tell everyone he is going to prance off to find her) she returns on the back of her largest and favorite dragon, Drogon! 

Just look at how big that little baby has grown!

In this moment we were all proud mommies and daddies.

Then, of course, Daenerys gives a power speech while sitting atop her scaly, fire-breathing baby and rallies all of the Dothraki with a glorified version of "I don't have a favorite child, I love you all in different ways and for different reasons". To which the Dothraki all responded, "Yay! Mommy loves me!"

Now, while all of this motivational speaking,dragon riding, white walker slaying, and religious conversion  is going on, my favorite story was developing. Samwell Tarly has brought Gilly to his family's home, Horn Hill. In the carriage we are audience to some talk about the greenery, the country, and the fact that he forgot to mention that his father is very anti-wildling... Like, there is Hitler-level hatred going on here. (Ooops!)

There we are greeted by Sam's loving and welcoming mother, Melessa Tarly, (who seems stoked to be a grandmother) and his overly chatty younger sister, Talla Tarly, who is going to soon be married off to someone she doesn't seem too fond of. She, however, makes immediate friends with Gilly and sweeps her away to a bath and a new wardrobe!

Cut to dinner!

Everyone is there: Randyll Tarly (Sam's father) , Melessa, Talla, Dickon (Sam's younger brother), Samwell, and Gilly!

Samwell's father punctuates his insults (aimed at none other than our gentle Sam) with small bites of food as he glares so hard his eyes almost completely shut. Eventually Gilly can't stand his bullying any longer and starts telling Randyll off and casually letting slip that she is from north of the wall. At this point, Randyll turns his insults and hate-glare at her. He then directs her attention to the Valerian steel sword hanging up on the wall and informs her that it is called "Heartsbane" and that Samwell is SUPPOSED to inherit it but he won't... like...ever.

Sam's mother says something like, "You don't need help making an ass out of yourself" and drags Gilly and Talla out of the dining hall. When the ladies have left Randyll tells Sam that he will house Gilly and little baby Sam (who is, by the way, super adorable). He will have her work in the kitchen under the condition that Sam leaves at first light. 

Sam makes his way to Gilly's room to apologize and say goodbye. After a conversation that tears at your heart strings and Sam telling Gilly (through him choking back tears) to say goodbye to little Sam for him, he leaves the room and you are left with this feeling of, "WHY?!? NO!!! STAY WITH HER!!!".

That scene goes on for what seems like ages...

Until BOOM!

In bursts Sam telling Gilly to pack her things. (And Gilly pointing out that she has no things to pack.) He tells her that they are leaving and then it cuts to the three of them in the dining hall where Sam is, *GASP*, stealing Heartsbane! Gilly asks what will happen if Randyll tries to come after the sword (and them in the process) to which Sam replies, "Let him try."

Does this mean he is going to start his own house with the help of Jon and the wildlings? Is he just showing some teenager-like rebellion? Is he trying to step up and be a man for his little namesake?

Do you have a theory of what is to come? Do you just want to gush about all of the awesomeness in this episode? Do you just want to say, "Hi"? Leave a comment! We will respond! 

GURPS Character Creation: Just the basics! Part 1

So, you want to play GURPS? It looks so fun and you are super confident in your imagination but, uh-oh, you don't have a character!! Whatever will you do?!

FEAR NOT, GAMELING! 

I am here to help!

First things first...
Before any character creation points are even brought into the picture...
Who are you?

The best way to build your character is to create a backstory! If you are interested in playing GURPS, you probably already have a crazy awesome imagination! Use that big, beautiful brain to write a brief story about who you are and what your life has been like up until the point you enter the game! This can (and most likely will) be based largely upon the campaign parameters and any restrictions or requests made by your GM (Game Master).

Got that part done?
Awesome! You rock!

Now comes the fun part.
You now get to browse the GURPS Basic Set book's chapters on Advantages, Disadvantages, Skills,and Magic to see what fits your character and backstory! 

I recommend making a list of what you want to have for your character! 

**Protip: write the point cost next to each advantage/disadvantage/skill/magic so that you can easily keep track of how much you are using and prioritize accordingly!**

Time to get to the sheet!!
First, let us take a nice long gander at the first page of that beauty...

Under that phenomenal logo you will see the boxes for your basic attributes (Strength [ST], Dexterity [DX], Intelligence [IQ], and Health [HT]). These you get 10 points in each for free!

Go ahead and slap some 10's on that baby! 

10 is the point value for a basic, average, every-man human being. 

You can add points to your basic attributes to make yourself better in a certain area but it will cost you character points! It costs 10 character points to upgrade your ST or HT one level (example: it costs 10 character points to upgrade your ST from level 10 to level 11). It costs 20 character points to upgrade your DX or IQ one level. 

You can subtract a level of ST or HT for -10 character points and a level of DX or IQ for -20 character points! That means you get those 10 or 20 points to put toward something else!

COOL!

Now let us say that you want extra character creation points and think that brains aren't exactly the most important thing to your character. (You'll leave the thinking to your campaign companions).

You can bring your IQ down to level 8 for -40 character points.

Go ahead and tack those 40 points onto your spendable point total!

Go you!

The downside is that you are below average in that certain attribute.

These attributes will be used to figure out the boxes next to those (Hit Points [HP], Will Power [Will], Perception [Per], and Fatigue Points [FP]).

But that will wait until next time! 

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