DM's GURPS Page - What's New


27 Jun 2002. The first chapter of the Demesnes campaign log is up!

9 Mar 2002. Cosmetic changes mostly, but new Transhuman Space links on the links page.

22 Oct 2001. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, The Liberation of Rubilith.

11 Aug 2001. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, For Queen and Story.

18 Jul 2001. Finally added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Stars and Strikes.

29 Mar 2001. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Slip Sliming Away.

10 Feb 2001. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Slime Planet Blackmail Tango.

9 Jan 2001. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Any Port in a Storm.

16 Nov 2000. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, The Great Frog God.

14 Aug 2000. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, If It Ain't Fixed, Don't Broke It.

1 Jul 2000. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Send in the Clones.

14 Jun 2000. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Hijack and the Beanstalk.

20 May 2000. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Absent Friends.

24 Mar 2000. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Diplomatic Interference.

24 Dec 1999. Added the latest chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Bread and Circuses.

12 Dec 1999. Changed the page colours of the index page to be more minimalist and easier on the eyes, and added links to OPIGS: One Page GamIng System and bonus expansion: OPIGS Supers.

24 Oct 1999. The latest adventure chapter in the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Operation Orionis.

26 Sep 1999. Two new adventure chapters in the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Cowboys and Engines, and The Old Enemy.

16 Jul 1999. Added a new adventure chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, New Dawn on Dashgad.

03 Jul 1999. Added three new planet descriptions to the Amber Nebula Atlas, Juqueri, Nubia, and Rosethorn.

05 Jun 1999. Added a new chapter to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, Cold Night on Dashgad.

31 Mar 1999. Added pages detailing the game statistics of the player characters to the Amber Nebula Campaign.

27 Mar 1999. Added a final log entry to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log episode I Hates Rabbits, plus a full new episode: Cold Night on Dashgad.

22 Mar 1999. Added a small page to calculate atmospheric pressure at any height on any planet.

10 Mar 1999. Added an advertisement seen by the player characters and an available cargo list to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log.

28 Feb 1999. Added ray-traced planet images to all of the planet descriptions in the Amber Nebula Atlas.

18 Jan 1999. Added the next chapter to Amber Nebula Campaign Log. New material added to Guns and Map and a full new chapter: I Hates Rabbits.

11 Jan 1999. Added some POV-Ray ray-traced images of alien artefacts to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, in the sections Shadows of Forgotten Aliens and Artefacts and Piracy.

30 Dec 1998. Brought the Amber Nebula Campaign Log fully up to date (finally)! The long missing section in Shadows of Forgotten Aliens, detailing the exploration of the alien ruins, has been added, and half of the page split off into an additional page: Artefacts and Piracy.

15 Dec 1998. Added photos of the player characters to the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, aliens to the Chatka, Larrokite and SJG Aliens pages, and a dinosaur to the Dino Park page.

12 Dec 1998. Added a description of the free trading vessel Legacy to the The Amber Nebula Campaign.

8 Dec 1998. Added the planet Tatiana to the The Amber Nebula Campaign Atlas.

2 Dec 1998. Added a new page to The Amber Nebula Campaign Log.

1 Sep 1998. Added the description for the planet Tintanon to The Amber Nebula Atlas.

25 Aug 1998. Added six new planet descriptions to The Amber Nebula Atlas.

21 Aug 1998. Added a Java 1.1 applet version of my starmap program, showing all the human inhabited worlds in the Amber Nebula campaign.

12 Aug 1998. Updated the Amber Nebula Campaign Log further.

10 Aug 1998. Updated the Amber Nebula Campaign Log, although new information is still incomplete.

4 Aug 1998. Added another five new planet descriptions to The Amber Nebula Atlas.

3 Aug 1998. Added four new planet descriptions to The Amber Nebula Atlas.

25 Jun, 1998. Updated my Java star mapping program to be compatible with JDK 1.1.6, and added a few new features. Also used that program to create a new map for The Amber Nebula Atlas.

16 Jun, 1998. Added new rules for firing lots of guns at once, for characters with lots of arms.

15 Jun, 1998. Added a new section for planetary descriptions in the Amber Nebula campaign.

02 Jun, 1998. Revised and corrected the planetary temperature calculations page, which now includes details of planetary albedo, atmospheric radiation absorption, and greenhouse effect warming, plus several new examples including nuclear winter.

28 May, 1998. Added a new page with formulae for Bussard ramjets as space drives.

18 May, 1998. Added a new page on alternative ways to handle hobby skills.

05 May, 1998. Added a new Campaign Log section to the Amber Nebula campaign pages.

24 April, 1998. Reorganised the Zeppelins in GURPS page, and added a section on antigravity lifting gas.

8 April, 1998. Added a complete replacement system for the GURPS Vehicles, Second Edition radio communicators system to the radio range calculations page.

7 April, 1998. Oops! Fixed the radio range calculation applet on the radio range calculations page, and expanded the discussions further.

6 April, 1998. Added an applet to calculate radio ranges to the radio range calculations page, and expanded the discussions considerably.

26 March, 1998. Added an applet to calculate minimum trip times to the spaceship reaction mass calculations page.

25 March, 1998. Added a new page on determining radio ranges using more realistic physics than GURPS Vehicles.

25 March, 1998. Added some notes on atmosphere leakage from hot planets to the planet temperatures discussion.

18 March, 1998. Added preliminary release of my Java star mapping program.

6 March, 1998. Added some information on the Pachekki, Sparrial, and Memer alien species for the Amber Nebula campaign.

25 February, 1998. Added a section for external site links.

16 February, 1998. Added the full GM's information to the Dino Park adventure.

03 February, 1998. Added further information on ultra-tech zeppelins to the Zeppelins in GURPS page.

28 January, 1998. Added a new page all about using Zeppelins in GURPS.

22 January, 1998. Added two new adventure ideas to a newly reorganised Adventure Seeds page.

9 December, 1997. Added more details of tide-locked planets to the planetary temperature calculations.

25 November, 1997. Added significant material to the discussion of space ship drives.

20 November, 1997. Updated the Interstellar Commerce section of the Amber Nebula Campaign.

6 November, 1997. Added most of the campaign background details for the Amber Nebula Campaign.

28 October, 1997. Added information on tidally locked planets and stellar radii to the planetary temperature calculations.

27 October, 1997. Added the Ulhuqqa alien description. Also reorganised the reaction mass calculations and added new discussions of space drives.

23 October, 1997. Added the Chatka alien description.

22 October, 1997. Added some extra language details to the Varg and Larrokite descriptions.

17 October, 1997. Added the Varg alien description.

14 October, 1997. Added the first piece of Amber Nebula campaign material, the Larrokites, an amphibian alien species.

03 October, 1997. Corrected a serious error in the explanation of earth's internal heat in the planetary temperature calculations. Earth is hot inside because of radioactive decay, not still cooling from formation. (I actually knew this, but neglected to correct the text which I wrote many years ago when I didn't know it.) The equations are all okay.

29 September, 1997. Added the Star Mapping Program that I wrote years ago. Added the spaceship reaction mass calculations for space travel using reaction drives.

26 September, 1997. Well, I just created the site today, so it's obviously a work in progress. I am still committing most of my Amber Nebula campaign to word processor, so that will be coming along piecemeal in the near future.


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