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Throwback: I still don’t like impaling

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Another throwback while I edit 90 minutes of video from my daughter’s musical peformance last weekend and ensure I meet my Violent Resolution commits. Today’s throwback is a series of posts that deal with the impaling damage type. The first is from Jan 2013, basically within a month of starting the blog, where I complain…

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Observations on Guns Combat in GURPS

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The Alien Menace game has given me some good insights into some of the slow and fast parts of playing high action tactical combat with GURPS. Fair warning, this is going to be a bit stream of consciousness. Much like life, the importance of telescoping time when you can – the “Cautious Advance/XCOM Movement” style where…

Go ahead and roll vs. ST
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Go ahead and roll vs. ST

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If you’ve read this blog, you’ll see that I’m not a huge fan of ST rolls. I prefer using comparative ST (or even Basic Lift) to calculate a modifier, and then rolling against . . . something . . . with that modifier applied. In fact, that’s what Control Points (from Technical Grappling) basically are:…

Sunday Review: GURPS After the End 1 – Wastelanders
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Sunday Review: GURPS After the End 1 – Wastelanders

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We have a new series in town, and an old one. After being held up in release limbo for an awfully long time, the post-apocalyptic GURPS After the End 1 – Wastelanders has clawed its way through broken terrain, starvation, radiation, and mutant dinosaurs to snap at our heels. This will be a very comprehensive…

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New DF Game: Swashbuckling through the Darkwoods campaign

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Yesterday we played the first session in +Colin Ritter‘s new GURPS Dungeon Fantasy campaign, which he calls Darkwoods. I decided to play another hand-to-hand combatant, this time a Swashbucker. But rather than a straight-up Swashy, I wanted to try my hand at a pirate. Thanks to +Sean Punch‘s take on the pirate theme from Pyramid #3/64: Pirates…