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Reloading Press: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)
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Reloading Press: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)

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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. 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…

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Sticking it to ’em: Impaling vs Piercing Damage

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+Peter V. Dell’Orto noted here that sometimes there’s a bit of a mental squaaawwwk! when it comes to comparing piercing vs. impaling damage types. He makes some good points, and partly, this ties into penetration and injury GURPS-physics. Impaling damage, by and large, is assumed to result from a deep, often narrow, penetrating injury that gets…

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DnD5e 6th Level Beatdown table (preparation)

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OK, gearing up to make The Table. I think I’ll be going with the following columns. Class – self explanatory, but this table won’t deal with multiclassing Race/Specialty notes – things like “half-elf pirate” or “Mountain Dwarf Battlemaster” HP (Effective HP) – I think I might note things like 71 HP (+71 HP due to…

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Skill Levels for Melee Combat in GURPS

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GURPS Basic Set covers the question of how high your skill levels should be with the Choosing Your Skill Levels box, on p. B172. Some other resources (GURPS Tactical Shooting, Guns Skill Levels, p. 42) also throw down what the right skill levels are for various archetypes. But let’s, as Jeffr0 put it, tear down the…

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D&D Firearms Damage – conversion musings

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I have no idea why I did this. But I was thinking, probably because of my comments in my firearms-related Violent Resolution column. But  . . . I wondered to myself if there was a way to turn some sort of real-world number into D&D damage output. I know, I know. Why would I ever…