GURPS-Day postponed to tomorrow
It’s late, and I JUST got off work. So GURPS-day is postponed to Friday. Alas.
It’s late, and I JUST got off work. So GURPS-day is postponed to Friday. Alas.
In his weekly update on all things GURPS, +Sean Punch notes: We made the final text corrections to GURPS Martial Arts: Technical Grappling, by Doug Cole (douglascole). We still have art wrinkles to iron out, however. Depending on how much you know about the internal production process, this may be cryptic. This is good news, though. I know what the text…
Armor as dice is a good way of simplifying and speeding some aspects of GURPS combat. It makes it pretty easy to determine if an attack penetrates armor – do the damage dice exceed the armor dice? If yes, injury occurs. If not, it doesn’t. Simple and binary. Maybe too much so. In my Alien…
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…
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,…
Tonight we played in another session of Castle of Horrors. We set up a proper fire lane against some four-armed seige beasts, and more or less made as short work of the as one would expect with that many guns trained on flesh-and-blood 12-foot-tall humanoids. Which is to say: very short. We can’t stand toe-to-toe…
Oh, sure. Lots of people draw heavier bows. But this one is the heaviest I’ve been able to even attempt – mostly due to lack of opportunity. It’s an 85-lb handmade longbow. Well, not that long. The form makes a big difference. If you hold the bow out and simply pull, it’s a lot harder than…