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Sticking it to ’em: Impaling vs Piercing Damage

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+Peter V. Dell’Orto noted here that sometimes there’s a bit of a mental squaaawwwk! when it comes to comparing piercing vs. impaling damage types. He makes some good points, and partly, this ties into penetration and injury GURPS-physics. Impaling damage, by and large, is assumed to result from a deep, often narrow, penetrating injury that gets…

GURPS Day Summary July 1 – July 7, 2016
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GURPS Day Summary July 1 – July 7, 2016

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Thursday is GURPSDay, and below you can find the blog activity from the last seven days. Over the last week, as of 450pm CST, there have been 45 GURPS-Related posts from our list of 54 blogs that have popped up on the radar screen. Not every blog posts about GURPS every week, but some are…

Don’t forget to check the weather

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Over at Dungeon Fantastic, +Peter V. Dell’Orto comments casually that he assumes that the local environment in his Felltower Dungeon Fantasy campaign matches whatever is going on outside his house at the moment. I thought this was brilliant, and extensible The internet, plus sites like weather.com, weather underground, and apps such as WeatherBug all allow you to get…

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Swords and Wizardry B-Team with Eric and Peter

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I joined +Erik Tenkar‘s B-Team for Swords and Wizardry, which is basically DnD. +Peter V. Dell’Orto  hooked me up. We entered into the ruins of an adventuring guild house that both exploded and imploded. We immediately start looking at barrels, and Rul (me) and Mirado (Peter) guard the open corridor. There’s a ghast in it – and…

RPG Blog Carnival (March 2014): Virtual Table Tops and Online RPGs

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Welcome to Gaming Ballistic, March 2014 host of the RPG Blog Carnival. The topic for March is “Virtual Table-Tops – Impact on Games and Gaming.” As I thought of my history of gaming, first playing with a single friend in 1981 or so (Dungeons and Dragons, of course), through the years I’ve played with groups…

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What’s a Quarterstaff?

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Take a look at the weapon’s table – a quarterstaff weighs four pounds. LARP staff. Best I could find Looking at my own rattan practice staff, which is your traditional 6′ long, 1.13″ diameter lightweight stick, you’re looking at about 1.35 lbs. That’s a density of about a quarter-pound per foot, or about 0.52 g/cm3….