Other People’s Posts: Armor
A great collection of images of all sorts of historical armors from many cultures can be found over at Middenmurk.
Great stuff here.
A great collection of images of all sorts of historical armors from many cultures can be found over at Middenmurk.
Great stuff here.
I was invited to play Radskyrta (Red Shirt, in old English) in a GURPS Banestorm campaign using Fantasy Grounds. I was interviewing +Doug Davison and a few times we mentioned the GURPS included ruleset. Overall impressions after five hours of play: The graphics are impressive. The player side of the interface handles things well enough. It takes…
When last we left our heroes, they (me) had first given some stream-of-consciousness thoughts on revamping what hits and misses mean, as well as differentiating between Stress and Wounds, and slapping on Damage Resistance or an Armor Value as the typical last-ditch defense when the wounding threshold is exceeded and a weapon actually hits the…
Once again, over on the forums there’s a thread. In this case, someone created a repeating crossbow that is re-loaded using a pump-action similar to a shotgun. The design on the thread was a fairly standard design, nothing quite as elaborate as the image to the right. So, what would I make of such a beast?…
Talk about the titular polar opposite of the previous article, The Golden Geniza of Ezkali. Seven Mythical Artifacts for Dungeon Fantasy is precisely what it says on the tin. Seven items, taken from real-world myth and legend, with which to spice up your Dungeon Fantasy campaign. Each one gives a brief overview of the mythological origin…
As +Peter V. Dell’Orto noted, I’ve spent a lot of time this vacation writing. An exchange we had on passing back the twenty-third revision of one of the two projects we’ve been collaborating on made me appreciate for the Nth time the value of playtesting, and also what “simple” means. I do a lot of spreadsheet work when…
New blog alert! +Cheomesh is blogging, and covering topics near and dear to my heart. Weapons, guns, fighting, GURPS, and he’s got d20 stuff in there too. Go check out his stuff, and you’ll find longish, well thought out posts covering a lot of combative stuff. Chain Link and Concrete. Go read it.