A few weeks ago I spent a pretty long time talking to the guys at The Delve Podcast. The conversation included Dungeon Grappling, Dragon Heresy, and independent publishing.
Catch the first episode over at The Delve Podcast.
“Escrima uses smallsword.” It’s interesting. This active and civil thread on the SJG GURPS forums started with a few questions about grappling, but since has narrowed its focus – the bulk of the questions being answered – to the difference between Smallsword and Shortsword. The basic set is pretty clear – Smallsword is for light,…
Over on the SJG Forums, user Railstar replied to a thread announcing last Thursday’s topic. It’s a valuable contribution to the discussion, so I reproduce it here: Disarms and Reach For GURPS at least, the Reach on Disarms is one reason to use it – because you can disarm someone from the combined Reach of…
Speeding along here on an A330-200 on my way to Hong Kong. Out my window is Kamchatka. A forbidding and beautiful land. I know it’s all that when it comes to playing Risk, but after actually flying over it, I think there needs to be a house rule here – every turn you have armies…
A retroactive (and oft-repeated) introduction: After an actual-play hiatus where I was mostly writing and playtesting for GURPS. I was invited to play in a Pathfinder game, and after a few sessions, it was time to buy the book and learn the rules! I decided to try and read the Pathfinder rules cover-to-cover and see…
As +Christopher R. Rice is transcribing my interviews, he often freezes the video. Apparently this results in hilarity for him. Witness: This is a more or less correct impression, since there may or may not be something from Christopher’s Pyramid Write Club (We do not talk about Write Club) that someone did that borrows heavily from TG…
March 2014’s RPG Blog Carnival is focusing on Virtual TableTops and Online Gaming. I invited VTT creators to chat with me briefly about the state of VTTs, and what’s the future of online RPGs. This evening I sat down for a brief chat with +Keith Athey of RPTools, and we spoke for just shy of a half-hour….