Gaia Gamma release 6

I'm happy to announce release 6 of the living Gaia Gamma rules. As usual you can find the download in the navigation to the right. Release 6 represents an important step in the development of Gaia Gamma as it contains a number of widespread improvements.

Fiddling with the base skill scores & pure strain humans

I have decided to adjust the base skill scores of skills in a given skill area. To repeat: Skill areas collect a number of related skills and each skill area is ranked from 1 (best) to 4 (worst) with 4 being the only rank that occurs more than once. Base skill scores are determined randomly.

Gamma Movie: The Road (2008)

A couple of days ago I watchedThe Road on DVD. Being a filmed version of the bestselling book The Roadby Cormac Mccarthy (a book I not yet have read but which is standing in my library - but these days I prefer watching movies first and then reading the book because it's usually less frustrating).

More about images in Gaia Gamma

The next release of Gaia Gamma will include quite a few more images, all in full color and using a whole page. I already commented on my exhilaration about images these days being rather easy to purchase for home-made games.

Gaia Gamma finally with an OSR logo

Stuart Robertson posted a fantastic new OSR logo on his Strange Magic blog. I loved it and immediately added it to the imprint of Gaia Gamma. After my complaint about the restrictive licenses of some OSR logos (and no response I noticed) this was a welcome change in logo policies ;-) So here we go:

Size matters

One of the most recent additions to my local copy of Gaia Gamma (next release coming next week) is a short section about the effects of size. It's basically what you would expect: Larger creatures are easier to hit, smaller creatures are harder to hit. But I have made one exception:

Classes or skills, skills or classes? Archetypes!

Grognardia with its recent post about class versus skill systems got me thinking about my own preferences.

Gamma Games: The Mutant Epoch

Yesterday Lulu shipped a copy of The Mutant Epoch to me. While it's much too early to give a final judgement about the game I must say that at first glance I am extremely impressed.

The Skill List

Today I fiddled a bit more with the skills for Gaia Gamma. As explained in my post on skill areas, skills and skill areas play a central role on order to define class-like characters. Here's a first shot at a possible skill list: