Contents

• Beyond The Grip of Realism is the original "Truly Badass" collection of cinematic advantages for GURPS. These are NOT for the timid, the slow-paced, or those emotionally attached to the laws of physics.
• Down to Basics in Black Ops is really an alternate form of Up to the Challenge . . . It's a character-creation variant specifically for GURPS Black Ops, but the advantage it introduces will work in any cinematic GURPS campaign.
• Options for High-Tech GURPS is a collection of "house rules" that I've developed over the years for my action-movie, Supers, and other modern games. The rules for armor flexibility are great for medieval fantasy games, too! You've seen my cinematic advantages, and (in GURPS Black Ops) things like my Quick-and-Dirty Autofire rules . . . here's the rest of it!

Badass Links

• Oltre la stretta della Realtà is "Beyond the Grip of Realism" in Italian. In Italy, rather than being "Truly Badass," you're "Vero Bastardo!" God, I'm jealous. That really does sound even cooler. Vero Bastardo. Vero Bastardo. I could say that all day.
• Hollywood, quand tu nous tiens is the French adaptation of "Beyond the Grip of Realism." If Truly Badass is even more Badass in Italian, I think it's safe to say that Second Wind is even windier in French as Le deuxième souffle!
• Hong Kong Cinema isn't the same "Hong Kong Cinema" I used to link to, but I've begun to lose hope of that one ever re-emerging at a stable location on the net. In the meantime, this other "Hong Kong Cinema" is pretty good, too - a news and reviews site.
• A Pair of Blood-Spattering Essays on Hong Kong Action Movies is a really long title, but on the other hand there's no confusing what this link leads to.
• GURPS Black Ops is the one and only Truly Badass GURPS book, written by Jeff Koke and Yours Truly. This link will take you to the official site (which includes excerpts from the book and some spiffy artwork!)
• The World Wrestling Federation RPG is a fan site devoted to Whit Publication's (now out of print) game of WWF wrestling action! Fans of the "scrub" rules in Beyond the Grip of Realism (and GURPS Black Ops) take heed: This is where scrubs are from! The WWF Basic Adventure Game was the first RPG to have style enough to have scrub-rules; I bow before it as a humble disciple! The game includes lots of fun ideas that can be adapted to modern action and comic-book style combat.
• Bad Attitudes (PDF) is a complete (simple) RPG for bad-action-movie roleplaying! A fun read, worth mining for ideas (or just plain playing on its own). Written by Berin Kinsmen.
• Pierce's Badass Test - A classic slice of Geek Humor, well worth clicking on. Pierce works with a slightly different approach to Badassitude than I, but there is much wisdom to be found, here.
• Hong Kong Action Theatre is the one and only Hong-Kong Action Movie RPG, and if you aren't into GURPS, then HKAT is where you should go to get the smell of cordite in your nostrils. The latest edition uses the excellent Tri-Stat system, and while it isn't as cool as the sadly OOP Hot Rods & Gun Bunnies from the same publisher, it still carries the torch of HKAT into the future.
• Feng Shui is a modern-fantasy RPG that includes a Big Dose of Hong Kong style at its core (leavened by a White-Wolf style set of factions in Epic Struggle with one another! Hoo-ah!), with simple, story-oriented mechanics, a great sense of drama, and some interesting support material. Unfortunately, the game floats in limbo, cast adrift by the cruel hand of finance, and has no official web presence. This page is one "Unofficial Homepage" for the game; there are others. (There are always others, are there not?)
• The Internet Movie Database is an essential stop for any film-buff, action-movies or otherwise. If you've been there, you already know. If you haven't been there, stop wasting your time here and go be amazed. I'll still be here when you get back.