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Pyramid #3/38: Seven Mythical Artifacts for Dungeon Fantasy

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Talk about the titular polar opposite of the previous article, The Golden Geniza of Ezkali. Seven Mythical Artifacts for Dungeon Fantasy is precisely what it says on the tin. Seven items, taken from real-world myth and legend, with which to spice up your Dungeon Fantasy campaign. Each one gives a brief overview of the mythological origin…

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Why Dungeon Fantasy? Why the Dungeon Fantasy RPG Boxed Set?

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Why the Dungeon Fantasy RPG? So, in another forum, I was challenged: “Sell me on Dungeon Fantasy.” OK. I will: All the flexibility, tactical combat glory, deadliness, and specificity that GURPS is known for, with the additional benefit that the line editor went through and removed all the stuff you DON’T need. GURPS is a…

Write like the wind. What?

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Not much posted this weekend after the play report on Swords and Wizardy. I’ve got some OSR-related thoughts percolating that I have to get on paper and stick out there. This weekend was “try desperately to get old writing projects into final form” weekend. I think +Peter V. Dell’Orto and I made sufficient progress on our mutual…

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More uses for Tactics in GURPS

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This was a bit of off-the-cuff, but I wonder if there should be a few more uses for Tactics, or the re-rolls granted by virtue of a successful Tactics contest, in GURPS. Tactics seems like it should do more, to me, anyway. Things like: Make a Tactics roll to get the benefit of partial cover…

Reloading Press: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)
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Reloading Press: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)

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The Reloading Press is an at-least-weekly feature here on Gaming Ballistic for 2016. Each week it looks at some interesting real-world cartridges and presents them with hopefully-useful information in GURPS Format. 7.62x51mm NATO The 7.62x51mm cartridge occupies an interesting place in the US military history. After the tremendous success of the .30-06 semi-automatic weapon in…

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GURPS Boardroom and Curia out on W23

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Work has been a Terribly Dire Polar Bear recently, and today most of all. Fortunately, SJG comes to my blogging rescue by releasing something that was pretty darn interesting in playtest. GURPS Boardroom and Curia is a book all about groups of people. In a word: Organizations.  It’s a PC-facing guide to what organizations, from…