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Musings on “33 Things I want from Combat as a player” Part 2 (12-22)

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+Lowell Francis over at Age of Ravens threw down a mighty post: “33 Things I Want From Combat As a Player.” I read them, and had thoughts. I will share them, because that’s what I do on this blog. This is the second part of a three-part response. You can find my comments on the first 11 of…

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Grazes House Rule for Armor as Dice

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Grazed! In the GURPS Alien Menace game, we use armor as dice. So their DR 35 combat armor is now 10d on the torso. The 3d (5) blasters knock that down to 2d armor, doing 1d burn injury per hit through the torso. It’s fast and easy. But we wanted to come up with a…

Castle of Horrors: Running away is Cardio!
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Castle of Horrors: Running away is Cardio!

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We started in a basement, and exploration revealed some sort of stinky ooze. We tried to set it on fire with magic napalm. It sorta ran away, but we realized that we’d cleared a path for it to follow. We ran away, looking for trade goods in the form of napalm. We cleared out a…

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Actual Play: Pathfinder Skull and Shackles

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Last time in +Jeromy French ‘s Skull and Shackles campaign was a pretty epic fight with a mummy that had killed a lot of Pathfinders, and that had a amulet that allowed it to convert good energy (which really should kill it) into healing dark energy. Oops. We killed it, but it was a close thing. ***…

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The Price of Fitness

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This is mostly just a bit of idle musing. Last time I played +Nathan Joy‘s DF campaign, +Theodore Briggs‘s character, Thumvar, got hit with a spell (Burning Death, for what it’s worth) that made him roll vs. HT every turn, or else terrible consequences would ensue. In other areas, I have mused about the cost…

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Slytherin Fu

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Once again, my creativity is roused somewhat by a thread on the forums. This one’s on snakes and grappling. One might imagine that I have something to say on this, being the GURPS grappling guy. One would be right. The Raw Way (mostly) If you have a snake that attacks by constriction, you have a…

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  2. I agree. While the title of this article is a contemptible lie (that would be slavery, I think), the actual article is an excellent overview of why the thing is not only ridiculous, but actually harmful.

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