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Sticking it to ’em: Impaling Damage Type in GURPS

Bygamingballistic

This is a bit of a design gripe, though I don’t know if any of my potential solution brainstorms are worth the hassle of doing anything about it. Still, we’re all entitled to a few disgruntled moments over not much, right? I’m not a big fan of the impaling damage type. There are two benefits to…

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DEX Bonus Maxima for Armor?

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I’ve seen stuff like this before, with men in full harness climbing stairs and doing some basic gymnastics. It does make me think that the DEX penalties for wearing certain types of armor, especially very, very expensive and tailored plate harness, are overstated. I wonder if, instead of a maximum DEX bonus for Medium armor…

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Ravenscraeg Finale (in brief)

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Last Tuesday we had the final battle with the rejuvenated Oni, whom we fondly called “Kim.” It turned out to be fairly anticlimactic. We twigged early to the massive rune-laden club with the Thousand Words of Pain on it to being the real issue (and especially after several solid hits came to no good result…

GURPS Day – Instructions for Getting on the List
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GURPS Day – Instructions for Getting on the List

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GURPS Day Preparation! With some help from +Jeffro Johnson – lots of help – I now have a PERL script that will look at the RSS feeds for blogs and pull out the GURPS posts, and spit ’em out formatted all nice and proper. If you hear that in Nathan Fillion’s voice, well, you’re not wrong…

Increasing Dodge through skill
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Increasing Dodge through skill

Bygamingballistic

There’s a pretty interesting thread over on the forums where someone was asking a bunch of questions about Martial Arts and Technical Grappling. So +Peter V. Dell’Orto and I are both happy. But one point the author makes is that if you take two fighters, one ridiculously skilled and the other not-so-much, that as awesome as their…