GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier -Rules Options

I tried to strike a balance between my urge to use a ton of options and simplicity in my upcoming GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier game.

Table of Contents

Action

1. The Ultra Simplified GURPS Combat System You Probably Don't Know About - New!

Ally

1. Nonsentient Allies

Android

1. Pathfinder Archetype: Magus (Bladedroid)

Archetype

1. Pathfinder Archetype: Magus (Bladedroid)

Blog-or-treat

1. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-106 "The Old Man"
2. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-2140 "Retroconverter" in The Madness Dossier

Board Games

1. Imperial Assault Heroes

Brotherhood of GURPS Bloggers

1. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-106 "The Old Man"
2. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-2140 "Retroconverter" in The Madness Dossier
3. GURPS Rules I Don't Use, Replace, or Revise (or at Least Consider Doing So)
4. GURPS Rules Kalzazz Doesn't Use, Replaces or Revises (Guest Post)

Bugstiary

1. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Elder Spider to Goblin Spider - New!
2. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Giant Hermit Crab to Maddening Cricket. - New!
3. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Gold-Digging Ant and Ant-Lion
4. Bugstiary Adventurer Seeds: Astral Spider to Dauðaprestr - New!
5. Bugstiary: Maurakappi Player Characters - New!

Campaign Planning

1. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Megadungeon: Mal Tor'an
2. GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier -Rules Options
3. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part I)
4. Madness Dossier- Ontotectonic Projection (2014.05.03)
5. Mal Tor'an Update
6. My "Backwards" Iron Gods Adventure Path campaign.
7. Wealth in Glasstown - New!

Cartography

1. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Megadungeon: Mal Tor'an
2. Madness Dossier- Ontotectonic Projection (2014.05.03)

D&D 5e

1. Dungeon Grappling Kickstarter

Designer's Notes

1. (Sort of) Designer's Notes for "More Psionic Threats"
2. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Elder Spider to Goblin Spider - New!
3. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Giant Hermit Crab to Maddening Cricket. - New!
4. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Gold-Digging Ant and Ant-Lion
5. Bugstiary Adventurer Seeds: Astral Spider to Dauðaprestr - New!
6. Bugstiary: Maurakappi Player Characters - New!
7. CERs for "More Psionic Threats"
8. Clerics of Order and Chaos: Designer's Notes

Desolation Road

1. Nonsentient Allies

Dungeon Fantasy

1. "Pointless Slaying and Looting" Example Character
2. (Sort of) Designer's Notes for "More Psionic Threats"
3. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Elder Spider to Goblin Spider - New!
4. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Giant Hermit Crab to Maddening Cricket. - New!
5. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Gold-Digging Ant and Ant-Lion
6. Bugstiary Adventurer Seeds: Astral Spider to Dauðaprestr - New!
7. CERs for "More Psionic Threats"
8. Clerics of Order and Chaos: Designer's Notes
9. Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Box Set Kickstarter
10. Dungeon Fantasy Tone - Correction and Continuation
11. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 19: Incantation Magic
12. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Megadungeon: Mal Tor'an
13. GURPS Magic: How to Make a Multi-Use Trap Out of Nearly Any Spell.
14. Mal Tor'an Update
15. Planet Mercenary and DFRP
16. Pyramid: Dungeon Fantasy Collected
17. Pyramid: The Dungeon Fantasy Collection
18. The Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Kickstarter
19. The Tone of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy

Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game

1. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Elder Spider to Goblin Spider - New!
2. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Giant Hermit Crab to Maddening Cricket. - New!
3. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Gold-Digging Ant and Ant-Lion
4. Bugstiary Adventurer Seeds: Astral Spider to Dauðaprestr - New!
5. Bugstiary: Maurakappi Player Characters - New!

EZO

1. EZO: Research Base Chomsky: Sedation Protocols
2. Exclusion Zone Operations: Research Base Chomsky

Escape Room

1. EZO: Research Base Chomsky: Sedation Protocols
2. Exclusion Zone Operations: Research Base Chomsky

Faction

1. Additional Technic League Faction Costs
2. Even More Technic League Prestige Awards
3. Pathfinder Faction: Technic League

GURPS

1. "Pointless Slaying and Looting" Example Character
2. (Sort of) Designer's Notes for "More Psionic Threats"
3. A Possibly Nonsense But Playable Solution to The Crossbow Conundrum - New!
4. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-106 "The Old Man"
5. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-2140 "Retroconverter" in The Madness Dossier
6. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Elder Spider to Goblin Spider - New!
7. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Giant Hermit Crab to Maddening Cricket. - New!
8. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Gold-Digging Ant and Ant-Lion
9. Bugstiary Adventurer Seeds: Astral Spider to Dauðaprestr - New!
10. CERs for "More Psionic Threats"
11. Clerics of Order and Chaos: Designer's Notes
12. Disadvantage "Load" - New!
13. Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Box Set Kickstarter
14. Dungeon Fantasy Tone - Correction and Continuation
15. Fire and Forget Undead in GURPS
16. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 19: Incantation Magic
17. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Megadungeon: Mal Tor'an
18. GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier - Character Creation
19. GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier -Rules Options
20. GURPS Magic: How to Make a Multi-Use Trap Out of Nearly Any Spell.
21. GURPS Rules I Don't Use, Replace, or Revise (or at Least Consider Doing So)
22. GURPS Rules Kalzazz Doesn't Use, Replaces or Revises (Guest Post)
23. GURPS Vehicle Stat Line: M2 Bradley
24. Madness Dossier - Some Template Observations
25. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session 1 Notes
26. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session Recap (9/18/2016) Part I
27. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session Recap (9/18/2016) Part II
28. Madness Dossier Ziasudra Session Recap (10/23/2016)
29. Madness Dossier- Ontotectonic Projection (2014.05.03)
30. Madness Dossier- Talent Alternative Benefits
31. Mal Tor'an Update
32. Nonsentient Allies
33. Planet Mercenary and DFRP
34. Pyramid: Dungeon Fantasy Collected
35. Pyramid: The Dungeon Fantasy Collection
36. Santa Claus and Signature Gear
37. The Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Kickstarter
38. The Tone of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy
39. The Ultra Simplified GURPS Combat System You Probably Don't Know About - New!
40. Wealth and Money in GURPS: Bean-Counting vs Abstraction - New!
41. Wealth in Glasstown - New!

Glasstown

1. Wealth in Glasstown - New!

Grappling

1. Dungeon Grappling Kickstarter

House Rules

1. A Possibly Nonsense But Playable Solution to The Crossbow Conundrum - New!
2. Nonsentient Allies
3. Patthfinder Wounds and Vigor House Rules
4. Santa Claus and Signature Gear

Imperial Assault

1. Imperial Assault Heroes

Iron Gods

1. Additional Technic League Faction Costs
2. Even More Technic League Prestige Awards
3. Iron Gods (Backwards) Interstitial Session (Everybody Hates Drow)
4. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower (Part 3): Session 1
5. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower (Part 3): Session 2
6. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower: Session 4
7. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part I)
8. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part II: Fires of Creation)
9. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part III: Lords of Rust)
10. Iron Gods (Backwards), The Choking Tower: Session 3
11. Iron Gods - Catching up
12. My "Backwards" Iron Gods Adventure Path campaign.
13. Pathfinder Archetype: Magus (Bladedroid)
14. Pathfinder Faction: Technic League
15. Pathfinder Settlement: Scrapwall
16. Patthfinder Wounds and Vigor House Rules
17. The Deal with Silverdisks

Kickstarter

1. Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Box Set Kickstarter
2. Dungeon Grappling Kickstarter
3. Planet Mercenary RPG
4. Planet Mercenary and DFRP
5. Pyramid: The Dungeon Fantasy Collection
6. The Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Kickstarter

LARP

1. EZO: Research Base Chomsky: Sedation Protocols
2. Exclusion Zone Operations: Research Base Chomsky

Licensed Games

1. Planet Mercenary RPG

Low-Tech

1. A Possibly Nonsense But Playable Solution to The Crossbow Conundrum - New!

Madness Dossier

1. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-2140 "Retroconverter" in The Madness Dossier
2. GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier - Character Creation
3. GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier -Rules Options
4. Madness Dossier - Some Template Observations
5. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session 1 Notes
6. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session Recap (9/18/2016) Part I
7. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session Recap (9/18/2016) Part II
8. Madness Dossier Ziasudra Session Recap (10/23/2016)
9. Madness Dossier- Ontotectonic Projection (2014.05.03)
10. Madness Dossier- Talent Alternative Benefits

Magic

1. Fire and Forget Undead in GURPS
2. GURPS Magic: How to Make a Multi-Use Trap Out of Nearly Any Spell.

Magus

1. Pathfinder Archetype: Magus (Bladedroid)

Miniatures

1. Assorted Bones Skeletons
2. Bones I Dungeon Dressing
3. Galladon ("Karlin" Human Wizard)
4. Great Cthulhu
5. Imperial Assault Heroes
6. Narthrax Bones 2 Dragon
7. The Mist ("Marut" Vanaran Gunslinger)

Monster Hunters

1. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-106 "The Old Man"

Monsters

1. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-106 "The Old Man"
2. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Elder Spider to Goblin Spider - New!
3. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Giant Hermit Crab to Maddening Cricket. - New!
4. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Gold-Digging Ant and Ant-Lion
5. Bugstiary Adventurer Seeds: Astral Spider to Dauðaprestr - New!
6. CERs for "More Psionic Threats"

Nordlond

1. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Elder Spider to Goblin Spider - New!
2. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Giant Hermit Crab to Maddening Cricket. - New!
3. Bugstiary Adventure Seeds: Gold-Digging Ant and Ant-Lion
4. Bugstiary Adventurer Seeds: Astral Spider to Dauðaprestr - New!

OSR

1. Dungeon Grappling Kickstarter

Pathfinder

1. Additional Technic League Faction Costs
2. Dungeon Grappling Kickstarter
3. Even More Technic League Prestige Awards
4. Iron Gods (Backwards) Interstitial Session (Everybody Hates Drow)
5. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower (Part 3): Session 1
6. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower (Part 3): Session 2
7. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower: Session 4
8. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part I)
9. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part II: Fires of Creation)
10. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part III: Lords of Rust)
11. Iron Gods (Backwards), The Choking Tower: Session 3
12. Iron Gods - Catching up
13. My "Backwards" Iron Gods Adventure Path campaign.
14. Pathfinder Archetype: Magus (Bladedroid)
15. Pathfinder Faction: Technic League
16. Pathfinder Settlement: Scrapwall
17. Patthfinder Wounds and Vigor House Rules
18. The Deal with Silverdisks

Planet Mercenary

1. Planet Mercenary RPG
2. Planet Mercenary and DFRP

Powers

1. Fire and Forget Undead in GURPS

Psionics

1. (Sort of) Designer's Notes for "More Psionic Threats"

Racial Templates

1. Bugstiary: Maurakappi Player Characters - New!

SCP Foundation

1. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-106 "The Old Man"
2. Blog-or-Treat: SCP-2140 "Retroconverter" in The Madness Dossier

Session Summary

1. Iron Gods (Backwards) Interstitial Session (Everybody Hates Drow)
2. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower (Part 3): Session 1
3. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower (Part 3): Session 2
4. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Choking Tower: Session 4
5. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part II: Fires of Creation)
6. Iron Gods (Backwards) The Story So Far (Part III: Lords of Rust)
7. Iron Gods (Backwards), The Choking Tower: Session 3
8. Iron Gods - Catching up
9. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session 1 Notes
10. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session Recap (9/18/2016) Part I
11. Madness Dossier ZIASUDRA Session Recap (9/18/2016) Part II
12. Madness Dossier Ziasudra Session Recap (10/23/2016)

Settlement

1. Pathfinder Settlement: Scrapwall

Signature Gear

1. Santa Claus and Signature Gear

Star Wars

1. Imperial Assault Heroes

Table of Contents

1. Table of Contents

Talents

1. Madness Dossier- Talent Alternative Benefits

Template

1. Madness Dossier - Some Template Observations

Vehicle

1. GURPS Vehicle Stat Line: M2 Bradley

original game design

1. EZO: Research Base Chomsky: Sedation Protocols
2. Exclusion Zone Operations: Research Base Chomsky

post-apocalypse

1. EZO: Research Base Chomsky: Sedation Protocols
2. Exclusion Zone Operations: Research Base Chomsky

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GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier - Character Creation

Last Sunday, I officially started my first new GURPS game in over a year, using GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier. There are seven players in this game (which is a big group for me) and this was a character making session.