I was invited by +Alicia Sofie Davis and joined by +Christopher Sniezak over on Gigaventure’s end of year podcast to chat about The Year of Our Blog 2014.
I love tinkering with rules and mechanics. The things I’ve published have all been basically tweaks to the rules and mechanics of GURPS. I did do one for Frag, once. (Huh . . . all my old articles are available as free samples. Weird.) But why? The system is pretty darn cool as it is….
This is a shout-out to +Emily Smirle . I fretted about my monsters chapter for Dragon Heresy. It was 91,000 words long, and a whole lot of problems. Well, I chatted with Em and +GodBeastX , and they noted that the best way to do this was probably a brute scrape of a text file. Turn it into an…
Gaming Ballistic’s welcomed ConTessa founder +Stacy Dellorfano to the Firing Squad, and we chatted for well over an hour. As mentioned previously, my lack of headset caused issues with Stacy’s audio feed, which was recorded to the Hangout On Air. Nonetheless, we managed to get a good transcript from the interview, which is below. I’ve still gone…
After all of the pro/con discussion – most of it remarkably civil, thanks – I stumbled upon a fun (if strongly tilting towards the negative) counterpoint that ups the ante on the topic of GURPS‘ relative complexity: How to GURPS and why it sucks anyway, by Mu. The “TLDR” section contains a lot of goodness…
While most of my gaming mastery is with GURPS, I also do play Pathfinder once a week or so. I’m in two campaigns, one run by +Jeromy French (Skull and Shackles) and the other by +kung fu hillbilly (home brew, I think). The recently released “errata” for Pathfinder goes beyond the typical SJG definition of errata, and actually…
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 Zephyr (Merlin) – Real name…