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Bygamingballistic

The spy creeps through the building, making no noise whatsoever. Even ninjas would have marveled at his stealth, cunning, and patience. At last, he enters the room containing his prey. He extracts his silenced pistol, levels it at his target’s head. He will destroy the man, and sneak out the way he came, no one…

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Gaming Ballistic’s Firing Squad: Richard LeBlanc and David Welborn and the d30 Sandbox Companion

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Last week I sat down with +Richard LeBlanc and +David Welborn of New Big Dragon Games Unlimited to discuss, largely, the d30 Sandbox Companion. It’s been #1 on the RPGNow “best seller” list for some weeks in a row, and after +Erik Tenkar and +Tim Shorts raved about it, I decided to check it out. My reiview was decidedly positive. I asked if…

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GURPS Niche Protection – Capability vs. Execution

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A comment that was recently made struck an idea in my head, and that was that what makes characters different is what makes the game fun. The differences in their capabilities. That struck me funny, and it took me a moment to realize why. GURPS allows two different characters that have completely identical capabilities to play…

Thursday REALLY IS GURPS Day!
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Thursday REALLY IS GURPS Day!

Bygamingballistic

Thursday is GURPS Day Well knock me over with a feather. Something I started doing on a lark almost three full years ago, but kept up pretty steadily, was to declare that Thursday was GURPS Day (‘it must be true, because it rhymes’). Here in the Daily Illuminator is the awesome and flattering (to me)…