The Path of Cunning

The Path of Cunning is a GURPS fanzine, edited and produced by Roger Bell_West and John Dallman.

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Issue #5 [PDF] [ePUB] December 2024; artwork by Dan Smith, moltenraven, Wikimedia Commons, Dover Books and other public-domain sources. Letters from David L. Pulver.
  • Editorial: Immersion, John Dallman and Roger Bell_West
  • Concluding Irresponsible & Right, John Dallman
  • The Afforestation of GURPS Power-Ups 10: Skill Trees, Sean Punch
  • GURPS Community Contacts
  • GURPS Fantasy Folk, Thrice, Phil Masters
  • Designer’s Notes: Atlantropa, Josh Kilburn
  • Infinite Cabal afterthoughts, John Dallman
  • The GURPS I Run, Roger Bell_West
  • Running GURPS without system expertise, John Dallman
  • GURPS Pathfinder, Roger Bell_West
  • Libraries for GURPS: Traits for Librarians, Shimmin Beg
  • Letters
  • Campaign Seed: Why Apollo Shut Down, John Dallman
  • Descriptions as Powers, Shimmin Beg
  • Managing growth in long-running campaigns, Roger Bell_West
  • Irresponsible & Right: World Profile, John Dallman
Issue #4 [PDF] [ePUB] June 2023; artwork by Dan Smith, Jeff Dee, Wikimedia Commons, Dover Books and other public-domain sources. Letters from Ingvar Mattson and David L. Pulver.
  • WE ATEN’T DEAD, Roger Bell_West and John Dallman
  • Libraries for GURPS: Stats and Staff, Shimmin Beg
  • GURPS Community Contacts
  • All the Designer’s Notes All at Once, Sean Punch
  • A Question of Atmosphere, Roger Bell_West
  • GURPS Renaissance Venice: Merchants of Venice: Designer’s Notes, Matt Riggsby
  • Letters
  • Layout Gremlins, Douglas Cole, John Dallman and Jean Sexton
  • Modern Coilguns, Roger Bell_West
  • GURPS Steampunk: The Broken Clockwork World: Designer’s Notes, Phil Masters
  • Generalists in Action, Paul Blackwell
  • Failing the Bechdel Test, Carol and Jaine
  • GURPS Furries: Designer’s Notes, William H. Stoddard
  • The Armoury: Reich-5, Roger Bell_West
  • GURPS Vehicles: War Galleys: Designers’ Notes, Carolyn Stein and Stephen K. Stein
  • Infinite Cabal part 4, John Dallman
  • GURPS Infinite Worlds: The Osiris Worlds: Designer’s Notes, Phil Masters
  • The XM42, Roger Bell_West
Issue #3 [PDF] [ePUB] November 2020; artwork by Wayne Peters, Dan Smith, Wikimedia Commons, Dover Books and other public-domain sources. Letters from Eric Bryden and Michael Abbott.
  • … An Otherwise Bald and Unconvincing Narrative, John Dallman
  • Amanda Svartvinge, Anders Starmark
  • GURPS Community Contacts
  • Infinite Cabal Part 3, John Dallman
  • GURPS Cold Shard Mountains: Designer’s Notes, Matt Riggsby
  • GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky: Designer’s Notes, Roger Bell_West
  • GURPS Disasters: Hurricane: Designer’s Notes, James P. Howard, II
  • Letters
  • Starting a Monster Hunters Campaign, Roger Bell_West
  • Casaba-Howitzer: Directed Nuclear Weapons for GURPS Spaceships, Roger Bell_West
  • Weather At Sea and In Flight, John Dallman
  • Naval Dogfighting, John Dallman and Roger Bell_West
  • WWII Naval Aircraft, John Dallman and Roger Bell_West
Issue #2 [PDF] [ePUB] February 2020; artwork by Kurt Wilcken, Dan Smith, Wikimedia Commons, Dover Books and other public-domain sources. Letters from Onno Meyer, Vicky Molokh, David L. Pulver, Dalton Spence and Dave Waring.
  • A GURPS By Any Other Name, Roger Bell_West
  • Infinite Cabal part 2, John Dallman
  • The Decan of Cheese, Roger Bell_West
  • Fine-Tuning Defaults, Paul Blackwell
  • Letters
  • GURPS Community Contacts
  • GURPS Power-Ups 9: Alternate Attributes: Designer’s Notes, Sean Punch
  • GURPS High-Tech: Electricity and Electronics: Designer’s Notes, Bill Stoddard
  • GURPS Vehicles: Transports of Fantasy: Designer’s Notes, Phil Masters
  • Introducing Irresponsible and Right, John Dallman and Roger Bell_West
  • Dogfighting, Roger Bell_West and John Dallman
  • WWII Aircraft and Weapons, Roger Bell_West
Issue #1 [PDF] [ePUB] September 2019; artwork by Kurt Wilcken, Dan Smith and Dover Books.
  • Read Me First, John Dallman
  • Read Me Second, Roger Bell_West
  • Infinite Cabal part 1, John Dallman
  • Vehicle Modification, Roger Bell_West
  • GURPS Powers: Totem and Nature Spirits: Designer’s Notes, Rory Fansler
  • Timescales in GURPS, Roger Bell_West
  • GURPS Community Contacts
  • The organisation and regulation of magic in the post-war world, John Dallman