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Dragon Heresy playtest: Group 2 – character build and design chat
+GodBeastX , +Anne Hunter , and Wright Johnson joined me for three hours to kick off the “second” playtest group (of three) for Dragon Heresy. We did not play. Nonetheless, they stuck with me for three hours of chatting, with interruptions by my 6yo, something outside, and tea. We talked setting and character generation from the perspective of three people…
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Making Decisions Under Pressure 2
+Christian Blouin made an interesting comment on Google+ in response to my Shoot/No-Shoot post. He said: I was toying with the idea of asking players what would be their next action before resolving the current one. Cancelling their decision on the following turn would impose a “Do Nothing”. Maybe a tactics check could allow to avoid…
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Metablog: ID4 – Blog on Fire
Not sure why, but my post on the movie Independence Day has, in the last week, climbed to my third second most popular post ever. Did not see that one coming. Digging in a bit, it would appear that the inclusion of the term Area 51 had a lot to do with it, since that seems…
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Pathfinder read-through – Chapter 4: Skills (Intimidate – Use Magic Device)
A retroactive (and oft-repeated) introduction: After an actual-play hiatus where I was mostly writing and playtesting for GURPS. I was invited to play in a Pathfinder game, and after a few sessions, it was time to buy the book and learn the rules! I decided to try and read the Pathfinder rules cover-to-cover and see…
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Tenkar’s Hirelings
+Erik Tenkar asked about hirelings. +Peter V. Dell’Orto wrote about them as well. A comment over on Erik’s blog feed made me think back to a campaign I ran (the Blasingdell campaign, the origin of Sterick the Red). It was a Fantasy game, before Dungeon Fantasy was a GURPS line. It was a map centered on the town…
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Evaluate as Feint
+Jason Packer posted a worthy GURPS 301 post about one of our favorite topics, the Evaluate maneuver. Obviously, in The Last Gasp I tried to give it some legs by making it a recovery option. But Jason threw down an idea that occurred to me as well in passing when I was reading a thread on…
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