Forthcoming
Upcoming posts!
- Musings on Computer-Aided Gaming, likely thinking about a prospective GURPS Fifth Edition with that in mind.
- More on Dissecting Damage. GURPS uses armor divisors, basic damage, and injury modifiers. Why all three?
Upcoming posts!
In my review of Action 2, the gift that keeps on giving, I noted that there were several frameworks for thinking through things in a structured way. One was Assess, Analyze, Act, and Avoid. I decided to apply that to the Aeon campaign, and specifically to The Commander, my 1,300-point (or so) super-soldier. What does…
A one-hour interview with GURPS Line Editor +Sean Punch. In the interview, we cover GURPS‘ strengths and weaknesses, compare and contrast it a bit to other game systems, muse on the state of the RPG industry, discuss “realism” in games, and much more. At the end, Sean talks a bit about how to write well for…
Over at Castalia House, +Jeffro Johnson has written quite a large number of posts that he’s collected on his blog under the heading Appendix N. He also threw my way a nod as one of the Top 10 Gaming Blogs of 2014, which shocked the hell out of me, frankly. He likes my interviews, he says. So…
I posted my prior article on firearms for D&D over on reddit, and a poster noted that while he thought this was all neat and stuff, he was much more likely to be interested in naval cannon. That seems like a great idea, and I found a nice article online to base some initial stats…
When last we left our heroes, we were being relentlessly pursued by an angry flesh golem (and really, is there any other kind?), which was currently tearing apart the secret door we’d closed behind us. We decide that the equivalent of a short rest has passed. We shoot a few arrows at it, and it…
My copy of Ogre was delivered this week. I supported the Kickstarter, obviously, and despite the fact that it pushed my book, Technical Grappling, out by maybe a year or more, it was fun to finally get this thing. The pictures from the various sources do this thing no justice whatsoever. It’s huge. Mindbogglingly huge. The…