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.
My friend died yesterday. I don’t know details, but he and his wife were driving on a Sunday morning – he would appreciate a Babylon 5 Sunday Drive reference here – and two cars were racing. They apparently slammed into him sideways, and hit other cars as well. He was pronounced dead at the scene….
This is an article-by-article review of Pyramid #3/57: Gunplay. While I don’t usually do this, the subject matter of this issue is just what this blog ordered, and even if one of my own articles is in it, I really think every article, and nearly every word, of this issue is worth reading. So, a series…
Over on the SJG forums, there’s an interesting (if long) debate over the observation that all things being equal, it’s always better to fire lots of bullets at a target than just one, or even a short burst. The Example For example, let’s take a 500-yard shot, made by someone with Guns(Rifle)-13. That might seem…
Uncertain Gaming Licence 1.0a? Wow, such sound and fury in our neck of the hobby. Many people are legit concerned about where this leaves the third-party publishing space. I’ll leave that to other forums. However, it WAS my intent, in roughly two or three weeks, to launch a new product into the OSE space. It…
Over on the SJG Forums, I had a very productive interchange with Gef, a poster who wanted to know more about how grappling works using Technical Grappling, and asked for an introductory paragraph something like this: Grappling generally consists of an attack to establish a hold (which need not be an actual grasp), with a…
A retroactive (and oft-repeated) introduction: After an actual-play hiatus where I was mostly writing and playtesting for GURPS. I was invited to play in a Pathfinder game, and after a few sessions, it was time to buy the book and learn the rules! I decided to try and read the Pathfinder rules cover-to-cover and see…