Dungeon Grappling: Deal of the Day 9/24
Dungeon grappling is going to be 70% off tomorrow for the drive-thru RPG deal of the day. If you’ve been on the fence, tomorrow is going to be a great day to pick up the pdf version of that title.
I’ve been playing in +Rob Conley‘s Majestic Wilderlands game for a while now, and I’ve grown to like my character, Marcus. Still, there have been issues with how the game feels to me playing fighter-types (this is true of Swords and Wizardry as well), but looking over a few things, I’ve decided that part of the…
One of the oft-discussed and frequently derided rules of thumb is the GURPS rule for travel: Move x 10 miles per day.Now, that CAN be done, but it’s rather unlikely. But . . . if you take the slowest party Member’s Move, and roll (roughly) half-again that many dice, that accomplishes the same thing.So a…
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 what inspiration strikes,…
Had a brief interchange (not hostile) with another gamer in a different forum. The question was on Will rolls in gaming, and I noted that in The Last Gasp, I call for a will roll if you’re wanting to do something that drains a (now much more debilitating) Fatigue Point. To quote pieces of the…
A lot of the recent article Dodge This was focused on Perception rolls, specifically and most often, Vision rolls. In GURPS, if the thing you’re looking at is “in plain sight,” then you get a +10 bonus to Vision to see it. Not in plain sight? That’s a big bonus . . . sort of. +10 is…
I alluded to a set of house rules that I came up with for shotguns to deal with small shot sizes in my post on Rapid Fire rules and suppression fire. I had thought I’d posted about them, but looking, I don’t think I did. Here’s the deal: it’s commonly known that birdshot stinks as…