In which I squeal like a little girl
There has been progress in the art for GURPS Martial Arts: Technical Grappling.
This may not seem like much, and I’m sure the queue is quite long, etc. But this is progress.
There has been progress in the art for GURPS Martial Arts: Technical Grappling.
This may not seem like much, and I’m sure the queue is quite long, etc. But this is progress.
This one will be interesting and a bit tricky. The Druid is not a go-to class for me, so I have very limited experience. It’s also one that really pushes the boundaries of the sheet – but that’s OK. My Player’s Handbook is near to hand. Let’s start with the basics, and we’ll work the…
Over on the forums, a poster was asking about single use versions of skill and asked about Break Free, as an action after a grapple. Naturally Technical Grappling came up, and aesir23 pointed out that Break Free was a technique that could be bought up with Technique Mastery. Honestly, I’d forgotten about that. But it’s…
+Jon Peterson wrote a bit about samurai in the older editions of D&D. It was an interesting look at the history of the game (as always; it’s Jon’s forte). But if you want a Samurai these days, is it easy or hard? In 3rd edition GURPS, samurai weapons got extra bonuses and what was later termed…
Well, +Peter V. Dell’Orto and I went and did it – we took GURPS Technical Grappling and made it into an OSR-compatible short rules set Having now done this twice, what is it with me and grappling rules, and what principles are involved? Coming to Grips Grappling is probably one of the oldest forms of combat on…
As part of the run-up to Dragon Heresy, I quickly realized that the book was going to be very large. My initial estimates of a single 250-300 page volume were crushed under the heels of 90,000 words of just monsters. And that’s after culling things down and eliminating many that are thematically inappropriate. There are ways…
Wow. I have traveled from Minneapolis to Penang, Malaysia many times in the past. This was my first business trip to Thailand. Bangkok is closer than Penang by a bit – maybe two hours, but for whatever reason, this trip hit me harder. Both directions, the trip was pretty tight, and accomplished in three legs….