I led the post from yesterday with a quote from the movie Independence Day. That naturally got me thinking about the movie, which I really think is one of the better popcorn movies out there. It’s a classic example of the explosions and victory school of film-making. There are of course so many plot holes…
So, I wrote this Big Long Post on melee skill levels in GURPS. It got a lot of favorable attention. Then, on Saturday night, March 2, I joined +Vaclav Tofl and +Michael Keenan in a Gladiatorial smackdown. We each played 75 point characters, and since there were two PCs and five pre-gens, Michael and I were on the same team….
Due to copious lack of time, I’m not going to do a strict review with one post per article, like I prefer to do. I am, however, going to hit each one with my usual method: rating in three categories that boil down to quality writing, quality ideas, and drop-in utility with minimal prep. Destination…
Dramatis Personae The Commander (Doug) – telekinetic super-soldier with a really angry dog (Yukio). The dog is a powerful ally (250-300 points) and very intelligent and very, very aggressive. The Rat Queen (Emily) – brick with super-perception; made of actual rats Zephyr (Merlin) – Real name Murui; Shaolin Kung Fu expert and super-speedster. Eamon Finnegan…
When I took a look at the most and least seemingly popular/favorable Pyramid issues since the magazine’s third incarnation, a few issues on the bottom were very poor sellers, but really gave no indication of why. I wanted to revisit each of these and do an article-by-article review, in the same manner that I reviewed…
Thursday is GURPSDay, and below you can find the blog activity from the last seven days. Over the last week, as of 400pmCST today, there have been 37 GURPS-Related posts from our list of 59 60 (!) blogs that have popped up on the radar screen. We picked up two new blogs, too, by the mid-afternoon…
