Thursday is GURPS-Day, and I’m going to try and answer a question that +Jason Packer probably already answered for himself. But I write what hits me. He noted in a post that there are ways to randomly hit lots of things in GURPS, but “chinks in armor” doesn’t seem like one of them. Are there any ways…
Castles and Chimeras is an OSR Blog I stumbled across when it went live with a simple but great concept idea: Critical Hit Range is based on the armor worn by the defender. In short, I love it. I might tweak a bit, because some monsters may have good armor class but wear no armor…
Here we are. August 1st. I’d posted a hopeful schedule two weeks ago on what I had to do and the timing it was supposed to do down on. Yeah. I’m behind. But maybe not by that much. And the last two weeks have seen me get a yuuge amount done. What’s the Status? Two…
I know my blog has been filled with Kickstarter reports these days. It is, of course, rather important to me to make the best book I can, and in order to do that, I would need to bring in about $4,800, which means I’m roughly halfway there (though the project has funded and will be made regardless…
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. 5.45x39mm 7N6 The 5.45x39mm cartridge was a follow-on design to the original 7.62x39mm M43 and M67 that embraced the lightweight bullet concept. The bullet…
+Erik Tenkar asked about hirelings. +Peter V. Dell’Orto wrote about them as well. A comment over on Erik’s blog feed made me think back to a campaign I ran (the Blasingdell campaign, the origin of Sterick the Red). It was a Fantasy game, before Dungeon Fantasy was a GURPS line. It was a map centered on the town…