Interesting biscuits . . . at home

Some time ago, I posted about ginger biscuits with chili in them for extra zip. Those were from a shop, but Bonnie and I quite liked them (that isn't damning with faint praise . . . I just prefer my cookies to be homemade). Anyway, Bonnie felt like making biscuits the other day, and decided that something in this general vein would be fun to try. So she dug out her recipe for hot ginger snaps – the intensely spicy kind that get hard enough that you need to dip them in tea – and simply added a teaspoon of chili powder to the usual cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg. The result was really quite amazing! If you have a favorite recipe for fiery ginger snaps, and feel brave, give it a try and let me know.

Another week in the life of GURPS

It's Friday the 13th! Do you know where your GURPS is? I do:

• We just released GURPS Loadouts: Monster Hunters, by S.A. Fisher and Hans-Christian Vortisch. Does your PC face a nest of vampires or cryptids? A zombie apocalypse? This supplement will help you blast, bless, burn, saw, shoot, and stab those varmints real good.

• My own GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles is in the pipe for next week. Wizards will never be the same. (They'll be different from one another, anyway, which is the whole point of the supplement.)

• We reviewed the latest PDF of Pyramid #3/4: Magic on the Battlefield. It, too, comes out next week, with support for GURPS Mass Combat, GURPS Power-Ups 1: Imbuements, and even GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles (yes, the very week it's released!).

• We reviewed the latest PDF of a "new" GURPS adventure – actually an old Space Gamer one adapted to GURPS Fourth Edition. That's due out before month's end.

• An ultra-short freebie by Ken Hite (princeofcairo), in support of GURPS Infinite Worlds, moved a step closer to being ready. It should appear in February as well.

• The stalwart Nikki got GURPS Psionic Powers out of editing and into production. That's a Jason Levine (peekitty) joint, and looking like a March release. I re-watched Scanners in honor of this wonderful news!

• I wrote up a crunchy bit of joint GURPS Action-GURPS Loadouts: Monster Hunters support for Pyramid #3/5: Horror & Spies, which will be another March item.

• The first draft of GURPS Low-Tech, by Bill Stoddard (whswhs) and associates, is on target for its deadline in two weeks' time.

• I'm pleased to report that our new errata coordinator, Warren McKenzie, is making a solid dent in backlogged GURPS errata, judging by the number of rulings I tossed his way this week.