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Aeon Campaign: S1E6 – Crazy is as crazy does

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Dramatis Personae The Commander (Doug) – telekinetic super-soldier with a really angry dog (Yukio). The dog is a powerful ally (250-300 points) and very intelligent and very, very aggressive. Arc Light (Christian) – battlsuited gadgeteer with electrical powers The Rat Queen (Emily) – brick with super-perception; made of actual rats Eamon Finnegan (Kyle) – smooth…

Heretical Christmas Giveaway at Tenkar’s Tavern

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Each year for a while now, Erik Tenkar hosts “The 12 Days of OSR Christmas.” As The Mixed DM and others have noted that Dragon Heresy is “a 5e system with an OSR feel,” I figured I’d offer to give away six copies of Dragon Heresy as part of his event. The first give-away is…

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Pyramid: Official GURPS in short sweet bits

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Thursday is GURPS-Day, and because of a quick trip back and forth to California from Monday through Wednesday, I’m a bit behind. Life gets that way. Over on the forums, the poster known as mehrkat made the following remark. It struck a nerve with me in a good way, so I repeat it: I admit…

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Firing Squad Interview with James Introcaso

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Today’s installment of the Firing Squad welcomes +James Introcaso , proprietor of the World Builder blog and all-around fun guy to talk with. We chat about the next edition of Dungeons and Dragons, his world-in-progress called Exploration Age, the edition wars, and other fun topics (like grappling!) having to do with RPGs. We spoke for nearly…

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The Firing Squad welcomes Brian Engard

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This was far too long in coming, but in January, the Firing Squad welcomed +Brian Engard, and we discussed game design, self-publishing, and how to broaden the gaming market, among other topics. It’s about a 90-minute interview. I interacted with Brian first as a contact about the interview with +Steve Jackson, only to discover that…

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…