Taipei Roleplayers
Campaign Resources

Contact Information
House Rules and General Stuff

In the following pages you will find links to the resource pages and galleries for the Taipei Roleplayers, a group of hardcore tabletop gamers who meet on a semi-regular basis in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. The group is rather mixed in make-up, some of our members have been RPGing since before Dinosaurs walked the Earth and others only have a few sessions under their belt. All games are conducted in English.

This site is maintained by email Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H., a lecturer in the English Department of National Chengchi University. If you have suggestions, don't hesitate to email Dr. Phillips at phillips@nccu.edu.tw.

GURPS Dark Kamelot Campaign Rules Summary

Welkum to the Knightmare. Here are the house rules for our current Generic Universal RolePlaying System campaign set in a modern type setting with Knights and Ladies and unspeakable horrors that live in closets and under the bed. The Age of Chivalry has managed to stay alive into the 20th Century, although it is most definately on its last gasps. Guns are rare and Knights are known to handle differences in single-combat within the Swordcircle of Honor. Something evil is lurking in the shadows of the once great society of Kamelot and its up to the player characters to find out what. This is a multi-genre (mostly gothic horror) campaign still in the initial stages. While characters start as mundanes, they may develop supernatural, psionic, or super abilities in the course of the game (if they've bought the appropriate power prerequisites (latencies such as Magery, Psionic Power, or Unusual Background) in character creation). The game is pretty low-powered at first with 150 point start-up characters but that's fine for our needs right now.

Nexus Multiverse Campaign Rules Summary
(Retired Campaign)

Here are the house rules for our retired multi-universe Advanced Dungeons and Dragons campaign. This was a very high level campaign (starting characters have a million experience points to build their characters with) which incorporated any system, class, race, monster, world, whatever that's appeared in a TSR book and anything else we could dream up.

Here are character descriptions for PCs, NPCs, and monsters or whatever as well as campaign and scenario write-ups and journals or even character-based short stories based upon the various campaigns run by Taipei Roleplayers.

• Towers of Hell - Ruth Martin provides Lorellin's account of an adventure from 19 February 1994 (GMed by Tom Mullen).
  
• Quest for the Midas Orb - Linda Lin provides Itasa's account of an adventure from 27 February 1994 (GMed by Lorraine Phillips).
  
• Into the Darkwood - Kim Angevine provides Sarena's account of an adventure from 16 September 1995 (GMed by Michael Cheng).
  
• A Journey Towards Enlightenment - The ongoing adventures of Xiao Long, former TRP member Lee Campbell's monk character for the Nexus campaign. This is on Lee's site so you'll need to use your browser's back button got return here.

Here are various articles, essays, files, and resources generated by Taipei Roleplayers which are archived here for reference. As material is generated it will be archived here.

• GURPS R Dream - NCCU graduate and former Taipei RolePlayer Carol Chen adapts Sasaki Zhingko's Japanese comic book Dark Green to GURPS rules.
  
• Character and Party Motivation - Tom Mullen gives us his insights on how to keep characterization on track.
  
• Spells, Spellsbooks, and Generating Them - Tom Mullen gives some advice on how to handle spellbooks in campaigns.
  
• Effects of Wishes on the Wisher: Fallout - Tom Mullen provides an excellent very matter-of-fact and useful strategy for making certain wishes don't unbalance the campaign.
  
• Gaming and Education Articles - Here are some articles by Taipei RolePlayers as exerpted from David Millians educational newsletter. For even more education and gaming material, check out the original issues of the magazine.
  
  • Communications: EFL RPG - Michael Butler proposes an English Language Teaching Role Playing Game.
    
  • Language Learning Benefits of Role Playing Games - Brian David Phillips capsulizes some of his thoughts on using RPGs for teaching EFL.
    
  • Methodology for Using RPGs in English Conversation Classes - Brian David Phillips discusses more direct ways RPGs can be used in EFL classes.
    
  • Card Based Games in the Classroom - Brian David Phillips describes methods for using trading and narrative card games in the English as a Foreign Language classroom.
    
  • The Game Design Project: Student-Generated Flash Games in the Classroom - Brian David Phillips describes his method for having students create their own mini games in the English as a Foreign Language classroom.
    
• Role Playing Games in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom - Brian David Phillips presents an early draft of his paper originally presented to the the Tenth National Conference on English Teaching and Learning in the Republic of China - 15 May 1993. The full paper has been published in the Proceedings (Taipei: Crane Publishing, Ltd., 1994, 625-648).

GURPS Stuff

Here you will find various resources for playing the Generic Universal RolePlaying System This section will be upgraded as soon as I've got more of the campaign direction mapped out. I will then divide all this into local and non-local files and sites.

• Taipei RolePlayers GURPS Dark Kamelot Campaign Rules Summary - Here you will find the rules so far for the current campaign.
  
• GURPS R Dream - NCCU graduate and former Taipei RolePlayer Carol Chen adapts Sasaki Zhingko's Japanese comic book Dark Green to GURPS rules.
  
• GURPS Lite - An abbreviated version of the rules for those unfamiliar with the system.
  
• Appendix to GURPS, Third Edition Revised - If you don't have one of the newer printings, you missed out on all the extra stuff in the back of the book so they've given it all to you here.
  
• GURPS FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions regarding GURPS.
  
• Pyramid Magazine - This is the official "house organ" magazine for Steve Jackson Games but it's also a whole lot more. The magazine covers all the gaming industry news. Subscriptions for the online edition now give playtest file access so it's a sweet deal.
  
• GURPS Character Assistant - The best Windows based program for creating GURPS characters I am aware of. You can get the latest version here - GURPS Character Assitant.
  
  • GCA Installation Program - this is the shareware edition of version 2.12 of the program - it has a 30 day free trial period.
    
  • GCA Genre Data Files - just about every GURPS worldbook is represented here - this is a must as the shareware program doesn't have any of the optional rules sets built in - this is an installation program.
    
  • Dice Roller - the GCA program needs the VB run dlls so if you don't already have them you can install this dice program which has them.
    
• GURPS Resources - Here you will find all sorts of GURPS related stuff of use to roleplayers.
• GURPS Utilities - More computer programs for generating characters as well as character sheets and the like.
  
• J. Hunter Johnson's GURPS Links - The most extensive GURPS links pages in exisitence . . . Hunter's got just about everything you could possibly want.
  
• Rare GURPS Items - Some very useful material, Combat Cards, Rules Sets, and the like.
  
• GURPS Webring - The most extensive of the GURPS web rings available.
  
• GURPS WebWorlds - This is the coordination center for a very ambitious project.
  
• GURPSnet Mailing List - Email discussion list well worth your time.
  
• GURPSnet FTP Archive - You won't be able to stop yourself from finding all sorts of kool stuff here.
  
• rec.games.frp.gurps - You'll find quite a bit of public GURPS discussion in this premiere forum.
  
• Net.GURPS.Character Book - The definitive collection of GURPS characters on the web. Also check out the Elizabeth McCoy's other stuff at The Real McCoy
• GURPS Vehicle Designs - For those with an inclination towards space ship design.
  
• The Gurpsorium - Links to GURPS conversions and worlds.
  
• GURPS Conversions - Brett Slocum's excellent list of other game systems as well as film, TV, and literary campaigns converted to GURPS. Brett also has an excellent links section you should check out.
  
• Dr. Kromm's GURPS Page - Sean Punch is pretty much the online guru to be reckoned with when it comes to GURPS so heed his words and bathe in his wisdom.
  
• The Blue Room - S. John Ross has a beautiful GURPS page and so much more kool stuff.
  
• GURPS Romance - Paul Beakley's rather risque campaign setting.
• GURPS Sex - Tim and Christine Morgan present the down and dirty in GURPS terms.
  
• Getting Pregnant in GURPS - M.A. Lloyd provides rules for those using the above campaign settings and advantages.
  
• GURPS Oz - Mr. B has given us his own rendition of the classic tale.
  
• Morpheus Unbound - GURPS campaign setting with a very nice character section.
  
• GURPS Predain - This is a rather kool fantasy campaign . . . plus the "cover art" is soooooo niiiicceee!.
  
• GURPS Adventure: Deathnight - For those in the mood for a little GURPS, here's one of the Steve Jackson Games adventures for the horror genre. More to come.

Gaming and related activities is Taiwan.

• Shakespeare Eclectic Science Fiction Interactive Theatre - live roleplay freeform interactive drama scenarios archive, pretty much the best resource of its kind on the web
  
• Michael Cheng - a fellow Taipei Roleplayer.
  
• Twelve Hours of Sunset - tabletop RPGs, webmaster Scot Hoover is a fellow Taipei Roleplayer.
  
• Lee Campbell - tabletop RPGs from a former Taipei Roleplayer.
  
• Lucifer's RPG Realm - this is a massive resource on tabletop RPGs in Chinese.
  
• Tetra Q - very kool pages, tabletop RPG
  
• RPG League - links resource on all types of gaming
  
• The Arrivallands - tabletop RPG
  
• Taipei Ludographic Game Design Workshop
  
• Yagamiho's Cosplay - Chinese language page
  
• Kado Wang's Cosplay - Chinese resource
  
• Chihane's World - Chinese resource page on cosplay
  
• Nick's Cosplay Page - Chinese
  

More material worth perusing.

• RPG.net - An excellent resource for game related news and resources.
  
• Eric's Compendium of Free RPGs - This is a great resource for finding freeware "table talk" role playing game systems.
  
• Forgotten Futures - Marcus Rowland has created a marvelous set of table top RPGs based upon Victorian and Edwardian short stories and novellas, the textfiles and illustrative graphics alone make this a must visit.
  
• Amadán's Home Page - David Edelstein has put together a comprehensive collection of EFL, Gaming, and Roleplaying resources well worth a perusal. David is teaching in Korea and has written about his experiences at his home page at Andong National University.
  
• Use of Role-Play Simulations in Teaching - Chris Hariss discusses the use of role play in teaching.
  
• Problem Based Learning: within a traditional teaching environment - Russell Kenley gives an overview.
  
• PhD Education: where left and right brains meet? - Martin Skitmore gives an assessment I can empathize with . . . big time.
  
• The Trap Page - Tons of evil stuff to put in scenarios.

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Here you will find other pages which the American Werewolf in Taipei maintains. Some are obviously more serious than others.

Some other Taipei Roleplayers have their own web pages and you can check them out here.