Under Construction
FYI, this space will change without warning for a while, until I figure this stuff out. I’ll likely be stealing shamelessly from Dungeon Fantastic, ’cause it’s awesome.
FYI, this space will change without warning for a while, until I figure this stuff out. I’ll likely be stealing shamelessly from Dungeon Fantastic, ’cause it’s awesome.
Over the next few days/weeks, I’ll be reading through the Pathfinder rules cover-to-cover and making comments. This serves two purposes – a very long series of blog entries, which since I like to post something fresh every day or so, is nice to have a go-to source for something to write. Also, I’ll be comparing…
So, my daughter is in a small school that does very interactive history studies. So last time, they did Ancient Egypt, and made canopic jars, faux jewelry for the pharaohs, etc. This time, they’re doing Ancient Greece, and since she’s a huge Wonder Woman fan, and a big fan of costumes in general, I thought…
When I wrote The Deadly Spring, I pegged the strongest bow that humans pulled at about 200 pounds draw. I saw lots of bows in history in the 170-190# range, but not much more than about 200#. Mongol composite bows of as much as 165#, the strongest bow on the Mary Rose was about 185#….
Shotguns are an interesting beast in any game, and GURPS is no exception. A while back – Jan 2014 – I posted some alternate stats for shotguns, using my ballistics program. Some recent questions on that particular post – over a year ago, plus the fact that actually shooting shot from a shotgun, as opposed…
After I noted that’d I’d picked out Sons of Odin for music to be played if/when I win an Ennie for this masterpiece of a blog (and when you say masterpiece,you have to say it like Zola from Captain America: The First Avenger). +Peter V. Dell’Orto responded with the audacious and patently invalid suggestion that his…
Just for fun, I used the Damage = 4 * Log5(Kinetic Energy) conversion on a longer list of cartridges than I provided here. As you can see, most weapons fit into a fairly small range of stats. The .22LR does about as much damage as a shortbow (between 1d6+3 and 1d6+4), where a 7.62 Battle…