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GURPS Day Summary May 6 – May 12, 2016
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GURPS Day Summary May 6 – May 12, 2016

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Thursday is GURPSDay, and we’re back into the swing of things This last week saw the release of GURPS Disasters: Meltdowns and Fallout, which marks the first volume in what has been on the wishlist for a while in the disasters series. It’s not explicitly tied to After the End, but global nuclear catastrophe is…

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Sample 5e Characters – Rogue (Assassin)

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Here’s the next mundane character in the line, this time the Rogue. The rogue’s signature ability in combat, available to all rogues, is the sneak attack. Balanced against that is that the rogue will only get one attack in combat, ever (without multiclassing). The rogue is fundamentally a skills expert, however. With many allowed skills…

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Designer’s Notes – On Target (Pyr #3/77)

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Am I bound and determined to revisit and rewrite every GURPS rule?  No. But in writing Technical Grappling, I became very taken with effect rolls, in the vein of hit points and control points. The general progression of a hit roll followed by an effect roll is familiar and favored by gamers. Personally, I like…

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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…

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Cinematic awesome vs. two mooks – what do you do?

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In this post on the GURPS Forums, TheOneRonin was asking about how to fight multiple opponents in GURPS while unarmed. This was sort of interpreted to mean “I should be able to beat up many foes if I have Karate and Judo!” That wasn’t precisely fair, but the advice he received: expect to lose; expect…

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Heretical to-do list

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So things got busy in April, and I have only made piecemeal progress on the Heretical DnD project.  The draft still stands at roughly 130,000 words, but there has been progress despite no more wordcount increases. I resolved some longstanding issues with the rules differentiating ranged and melee combat so that they were less differentiated…

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    ‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’

  2. Speaking from bright and sunny Arizona, what is this “Daylight Savings Time” you speak of? 😀

    We've got plenty of daylight, we see no need to save any.

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