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One last post, this one courtesy of a request by Emily Smirle over on the SJG Forums, where a fairly civil discussion of the new edition is taking place. States of Relative Advantage Something that’s very clear in the rules, is that if you find yourself in a situation with both advantage and disadvantage, they…

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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame

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+Peter V. Dell’Orto discussed how much damage is required to kill in GURPS hand to hand combat the other day. In it, he notes: Yeah, it’s true. Gunfire can push you to -5xHP so easily I decided it wasn’t even worth discussing. But a post about different pistols and rifles and kills might be worth doing…

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Reloading Press: .50 BMG (12.7x99mm)

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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. .50 BMG (12.7x99mm) The .50 BMG is an iconic cartridge. It virtually defines “large bore rifle” in the modern world – or at least…

GURPSDay – Broad and narrow perspective
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GURPSDay – Broad and narrow perspective

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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…

S&W B-Team Strikes Back: Castle of the Mad Archmage

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We started out, after the usual banter, buying healing potions (4 at 130gp each) and +Peter V. Dell’Orto hired two hirelings and a 14-year old torchbearer. We called them Red 1 and Red 2 to start, and decided that the torchbearer was an exchange student, and we’d be giving him two gp and one credit. We enter…

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Pyramid #3/72 – Alternate Dungeons Review (Eidetic Memory: Good Dungeons)

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This is an issue that could be a lot of fun. Dungeon Fantasy is full of entertaining tropes, some used for amusement, some for simplification, and some for the one true purpose of absolute and total mayhem. Ahem. Sorry. But Alternate Dungeons takes this and attempts to come at you sideways. I strongly suspect, given…

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  1. Really looking forward to the last. I struggle with my own demand for realism in my gaming, when most of my gamer friends are not remotely interested.

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