Swinging a sword at an orc is all well and good, but if your friend needs help, you have to be able to reach him. Moving to (or fleeing from) a foe, or seeking a position that gives tactical advantage, is part and parcel of fighting. In fact, an emphasis on footwork, distancing, and movement…
I’m taking the really useful and fun stuff being written for Melee Academy, as well as other good posts that come my way, and collecting them under a separate page: Melee Academy. Watch this page for new stuff that helps get people’s arms wrapped around fightin’ in GURPS, and if you see something on another…
This coming Monday, I’ll play in my first game with the new D&D rules, and I’m pretty excited about it. Now that I’ve gone through a character generation cycle, I find myself very impressed with the integrated Roll20 support for D&D. Lots of macros, auto-calculations, etc. Good stuff. I’ll get to the numbers in a…
I interviewed +Steve Jackson, who of course wrote and published the game system for which I write, GURPS. +Jeffro Johnson said nice things about the interview. Steve and I covered a lot of ground, much of which could have elicited an even larger response than I made during the interview itself. I’m going to excerpt parts of the…
Last weekend, I interviewed +Steve Jackson! I tried to get this on out on GURPS-Day, but the editing ran me past midnight and spooling the video took two freakin’ hours. During an interview that was about 50 minutes long, we covered Ogre and the Kickstarter, Munchkin, his recently released 2013 Stakeholder’s Report, and of course…
We were only there for maybe two hours, if that, today. We’d had a long, good day yesterday and between cranky 10-month-olds and ConFatigue, our endurance wasn’t what it could have been. Still: overall impressions. The Con is a fun place to go Cosplay, but there have to be less expensive venues for it. That…