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.
A repetitive but useful introduction: In previous posts I talked about grappling from the perspective of someone totally unfamiliar with the concept and application. I proposed what is effectively a loose four-step model. Like all models, it’s wrong, but hopefully useful ( “All models are wrong; some are useful.” G. E. P. Box). The steps (and the…
This may be a short post. My newly-made Paladin charged into the opening fight as per his “seek out the baddest guy” custom, and got nailed for a crit for 4d8+2 damage, for 22 points. That brought him down hard from 38 hp. Several misses later, Mark (my guy) gets hit again for 9, though…
Thursday is GURPSDay, and while writing a review of GURPS Action 2: Exploits, hopefully for this coming Sunday, I was reading through the section on Squad SOP from Chapter 2, and the point made on “Subtlety” jumped out at me. The advice it gives is “The GM should ask each player to describe his PC’s…
We are on patrol as a group, when we come across 20 guys robbing a store. But they’re all the same guy, in the same super-suit, and a bunch of SWAT gear, knives, a sword, carbines . . . Hmm. The Commander has Observation-31, so there we go. We’ve also got copies of guys on…
Thursday is GURPSDay. We’re a week and about $90,000 into the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter. At this point, it would appear that it will fund sometime next week, and Kicktraq suggests a final tally of $120-150K. Below you can find the blog activity from the last seven days. Over the last week there have been…
I seem to be riffing off of +Peter V. Dell’Orto a lot, but in this case we both got forwarded the same neat clip at the same time. Peter made a lot of good points in his post. What I’m going to do is break down the iconic exchange in this video in roughly one-second intervals. And…