GURPS-Day postponed to tomorrow
It’s late, and I JUST got off work. So GURPS-day is postponed to Friday. Alas.
In the previous post, I proposed a high-level descriptive model for grappling. Like all models, it’s wrong, but hopefully useful ( “All models are wrong; some are useful.” G. E. P. Box). The steps were basically Grab him Grab him better Achieve a dominant position Win So, how does this work in GURPS? Grab the…
It’s no secret. Ever since I read Elisabeth Moon’s The Deed of Paksenarrion, I’ve loved playing paladins. +Rob Conley did me a favor and quoted the best description from the book in a prior blog post: Paraphrased From page 579 of the Trade Paperback the Deed of Paksenarrion. Most think being a holy warrior means gaining vast…
GURPSDay is going well. We routinely hit between 40 and 60 posts from 39 blogs in any given week (with T Bone’s GURPS Diner stubbornly resisting all attempts to wget the hell out of its content). But it could be more. Because I know there are more people playing and writing about GURPS, even occasionally….
Thursday is GURPS-Day, and running up to next week’s Melee Academy topic on disarming, my friends and I are passing back and forth videos of violence. This led to a discussion of movie violence vs. real-world violence, and the differences between the two. The discussion came up for GURPS, largely because it has the depth…
A while back, I asked for help on choosing arcane traditions for the Wizard for the Dragon Heresy RPG. I created four schools of magic – doors, essences, might, and mischief, which are themselves combinations of two of the spell types from SRD5.1. Since the game’s launching zone is Norse-flavored, the schools are flavored by futhark runes,…
GM: +Jeromy French Players: +Douglas Cole +Matt Sutton +kung fu hillbilly +Joshua Taylor We pretty much leaped directly into combat, crashing our ship into two others that were grappling together, a “fellow” pirate and their quarry. We were able to pilot our ship unnoticed towards the two vessels, and slammed our ship into the smaller of the two, and the…