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GURPSDay Summary Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2017
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GURPSDay Summary Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2017

Bygamingballistic

Thursday is GURPSDay, and I’m starting to get back on my game, but still not there yet. Welcome to the second year of GURPSDay, and here’s the pull for this week. We’re currently drawing content from 89 blogs – we picked up two more. Only 11 more to go until we’re pulling from 100! But we’ll need…

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GURPS Niche Protection – Capability vs. Execution

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A comment that was recently made struck an idea in my head, and that was that what makes characters different is what makes the game fun. The differences in their capabilities. That struck me funny, and it took me a moment to realize why. GURPS allows two different characters that have completely identical capabilities to play…

Thoughts from the WRX: Critical death
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Thoughts from the WRX: Critical death

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Another thought from the car. Driving home, I was thinking about the somewhat contrived situation where you have achieved total surprise on a high-level character – someone or something with lots of HP. You can certainly roleplay a coup de grace, or a sneak attack, and your GM can say “Yep, you know he dead.”…

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Scaling DR Revisited

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When I talked about scaling DR by Tech Level, or perhaps simply showing diminishing returns, I drew a comment by +Michael Wolf that brought up some new thoughts.  There’s Nothing About Point-Buy That Isn’t Meta On the one hand, he called it too meta. I disagree with this characterization, because assigning point values to things is about as…

Apropos of Nothing: Write it down with style

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I have recently started carrying around a journal to record my thoughts about blog posts. It’s very cool looking, and for what you get, very inexpensive. I recommend it for anyone involved in anything creative. It also has the side-effect of generating a lot of comment (though occasionally people ask me to what Bible Study…