I joined host Che Webster on his podcast Roleplay Rescue. The entire subject was GURPS and the Dungeon Fantasy RPG.
One of the more persistently annoying, aggravating, or at least frequently misused or abused parts of GURPS are the “trading time for CP” guidelines, which give some pointers at how much study might equal one character point. The guideline is roughly 200 hours of study with a decent teacher (or the equivalent) might give you…
On the SJGames Forums, I got the best possible comment on my recent Nordlond Bestiary. I asked for, and received, permission to repost it. So yesterday, I checked my front door to see if there were any packages. My 11 year-old son just happened to be following me at the time. I found a package…
The Reloading Press is an at-least-weekly feature here on Gaming Ballistic for 2016. Each week it looks at some interesting real-world cartridges and presents them with hopefully-useful information in GURPS Format. Except when it’s interrupted by a massive writing project, then it’s not every week. But by special request, here’s the first of several revolver…
Thursday is GURPSDay, a tradition I started in early February of 2013, shortly after I started Gaming Ballistic. I always did better writing to a schedule, and having a GURPS-themed post always go up on release day was fun. Earlier this year, my little tradition got noticed by +Phil Reed, and he was sufficiently enthusiastic that…
For today’s GURPS-Day and GURPS 101 segment, we continue with the basic stats, this time with IQ and its derived abilities, Perception and Willpower. Many, if not all, of the comments made about the value of DX are true for IQ. They both have two derived abilities, and both of those are 5 points each….
Today is once again GURPSDay, and here’s the last three weeks of posts! I’m still not quite yet at a point to get myself back to regular blogging again. I’m hoping sometime in the next month things will shape up. If nothing else, a return to school days for the kids – where they have…