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Playing with DnD5 Characters – Sample 6th Level Warlock
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Playing with DnD5 Characters – Sample 6th Level Warlock

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A Warlock is a spellcasting class that derives its power from a pact with an otherworldly creature. Most of these builds scream “lawful evil at best” to me, but a few are possible without going full-on Belkar. I mean, seriously: the patron choices are a Fiend, freakin’ Cthulhu, and an Archfae.  Of the three, at…

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Don’t stop here – go read Dungeon Fantastic today

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If you’re new to GURPS, or are sometimes frustrated or confused or find GURPS melee combat to be slow, +Peter V. Dell’Orto has some good advice for you. GURPS 101: Avoiding Combat Analysis-Paralysis in GURPS He nicely covers some options (and non-options) to keep things simple. It’s not even a false economy of simple. I’ve heard that while…

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Action Points and exhausting defense

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After I posted the link to my thoughts on spending HP (and thus depleting a reserve of grit and skill) to do more damage to your foe (depleting his reserve of grit and skill) the poster Kalzazz made a comment, which had an interesting bit in it: ‘The enemy made his attack by 3, I…

Review – GURPS Action 1: Heroes (Introduction)
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Review – GURPS Action 1: Heroes (Introduction)

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Great, so you went out and purchased GURPS Action 1: Heroes. Excellent choice. Your discernment makes you a paragon among men. So open it up. Read the introduction. Good. Read it again. Now read it again. Got it? Good, because it’s that important. No surprise for +Sean Punch, but I’m not kidding when I say that…

Reloading Press: .380 ACP (9x17mm)
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Reloading Press: .380 ACP (9x17mm)

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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. .380 ACP (9x17mm) The .380 ACP was another design by legend John Browning, and this one was to create a pistol that could use…