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More critical hit goodness (courtesy of Peter Dell’Orto)

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+Peter V. Dell’Orto did a nice post on critical hits yesterday. One thing that came up a few times is that there are cases where if you only crit on a 3 and have a skill of 3, then you’re either rolling an awesome crit, or you’re screwed. This can be avoided, though, by using margin…

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GURPS Jade Regent: Partying in Fake Mongolia

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We re basically recovering and shopping. We kicked the local ruler’s elite troops collective asses in games of skill. Horseback riding, archery, and wrestling. Cadmus takes no share of treasure this time, giving his mates a leg up in buying cool stuff. Nate said I can hold it “on account” next time. Since we each…

Reloading Press: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)
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Reloading Press: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)

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The Reloading Press is an at-least-weekly feature here on Gaming Ballistic for 2016. Each week it looks at some interesting real-world cartridges and presents them with hopefully-useful information in GURPS Format. 7.62x51mm NATO The 7.62x51mm cartridge occupies an interesting place in the US military history. After the tremendous success of the .30-06 semi-automatic weapon in…

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Basic DnD (5e): Every character and monster

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I’m going to be slowly working my way through the Basic DnD (5e) free rules book. Slowly because between a nearly-four-week-old baby and my eldest daughter, I hardly have time to brush my teeth (though I insist on it, as does, well, everyone) much less do a detailed “hey, let’s read an entire chapter of…

Pel the 6th Level Rogue gets a tad more badass

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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…

September: A GREAT Month for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG
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September: A GREAT Month for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG

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In case you missed it, you might miss it. SJG Kickstarter: Dungeon Fantasy Magic Items 2 This is a verbatim copy/paste of the Daily Illuminator Announcement. Please note that when Phil says “it won’t be open long), he means it: it runs next week only, from Monday Sept 2 through Friday Sept 6. Don’t expect to pop in on the…