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GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier is released!

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GURPS Horror: Madness Dossier is out! As you’ve seen in this space before, I’m a big fan of +Kenneth Hite‘s work, and this setting for GURPS Horror is no exception. I have to review why I was listed as a reviewer – I got a comp copy – but I got a preview of this one, liked…

Falling Down – head kicking for fun and profit in GURPS
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Falling Down – head kicking for fun and profit in GURPS

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Here was a bit cut out of the upcoming GURPS: Technical Grappling. There are several reasons. It’s a grappling book, not a striking book I was using Size Modifier as a direct proxy for height. That’s wrong. First See Rule #1. I also found this excised portion of the rules terribly complicated, and we ditched…

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Pathfinder: 2400 lbs of a Bear’s A$$

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We picked up from +kung fu hillbilly‘s new Pathfinder campaign with +Matt Sutton joining us (apparently he’d been there all along, but he’s a Dwarf, so we apparently never looked down). We started to wander out to hide in a tree by the exit, only to find our way blocked by a 25-odd foot bear. An angry bear….

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Unearthed Arcana: Feats – Commentary

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The latest Unearthed Arcana came out recently, and its topic is Feats. Now, feats are interesting to me, especially in 5e. They’re supposed to be boosts, not taken in any particular order, roughly equivalent in value to the +2 to one stat or +1 to two stats that you eschew by taking one. This particular Unearthed Arcana…

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Designer’s Notes – On Target (Pyr #3/77)

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Am I bound and determined to revisit and rewrite every GURPS rule?  No. But in writing Technical Grappling, I became very taken with effect rolls, in the vein of hit points and control points. The general progression of a hit roll followed by an effect roll is familiar and favored by gamers. Personally, I like…

Quick Note to GURPSDay Bloggers . . .
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Quick Note to GURPSDay Bloggers . . .

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If you blog for GURPSDay . . . or want to start, please do me a favor and email me at gurpsday@gmail.com. Please use GURPDay Mailing List in the title. Please do this even if you’ve contacted me on this address before. Definitely do it if we never connected by this address, but used G+,…