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 was chatting with +Peter V. Dell’Orto and +Tim Shorts last night online, walking them through the basis of my Heretical DnD project. We were talking about the consequences of taking wounds, or having had your Stress Points worn down. Just brainstorming in an idle fashion, tossing out ideas, and someone, I think Peter, mentioned that if things were…
+Charles Akins gave Gaming Ballistic a nod as one of the “Ten RPG Blogs Everyone Should Be Reading.“ His entry for GB reads: 4. Gaming Ballistic by Douglas Cole Before I started reading Douglas Cole I avoided GURPS like the plague. I labored for years under false beliefs about the game and foolishly ignored a robust system that…
I’ve been having issues for a while updating certain parts of my Blogger page. I’d try and add a link or something, and get a javascript(0) error – the only browser I use for posting and editing is Chrome. I’d click Save once, and . . . nothing. I accidentally solved this – as have…
In a recent thread on the SJG Forums, forumite Kenneth Latrans notes he does not like that The Deadly Spring used Lifting ST instead of Striking ST for bows, which he describes as a “striking-related action.” I’ll admit I was quite deliberate about putting Lifting ST in place of Striking ST. For real warbows, like…
As I work through the details on my Alien Menace campaign, I find myself fretting about character templates and kitting up the fighters. On the one hand, if you’re basically doing GURPS XCOM, it’s basically all about how good a trooper you are (a template), and the ever-cooler gear you get. From a RPG and…
This one flew completely under my radar until +Hernán Ruiz Camauër popped up on LinkedIn of all places. He’s got four days left to go in his Kickstarter, which is to improve the native content available on his Battlegrounds Virtual Tabletop. I wanted to interview him back when I did my Firing Squad series on VTTs, and…