Inspired by OSR Grappling in The Manor
I’d fogotten about this, but it looks like +Peter V. Dell’Orto and my rules were incorporated into the Guardians superhero RPG system!
I’d fogotten about this, but it looks like +Peter V. Dell’Orto and my rules were incorporated into the Guardians superhero RPG system!
Roleplaying combat can be about telling stories through the medium of action and physicality. It can be a pure tactical exercise, driven by achieving the best outcome (say, “crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women”) at the least cost. It can also just be fun fantasy wish-fulfillment,…
Roper The roper is thought to be a result of what happens when a darkmantle, it’s smaller but similar-looking relative, fails to cleave into two creatures as part of its normal maturation process. When that happens, it continues to grow, and will eventually sprout tendrils. It will devour any darkmantles in the local area, and…
When last we left our heroes, we were being relentlessly pursued by an angry flesh golem (and really, is there any other kind?), which was currently tearing apart the secret door we’d closed behind us. We decide that the equivalent of a short rest has passed. We shoot a few arrows at it, and it…
This started life as a for-Pyramid article. Some of it (the parts not in this post) still are. This stuff below . . . I could never make work well enough that I thought it would work for general consumption. So here it is. It’s “unfinished,” so details have not been fully worked out. Still Sharp…
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…
Last two weeks have been work-work-work. Finishing up the Best Supporting Actors materials and editing two manuscripts for two other games. Plus a bit of dabbling with the Shadowdark RPG. Best Supporting Actors saw a near-final release of both book and cards. Backers have at least something for all items they could have chosen. I…
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Nice.