Dragon Heresy: 13 hours and counting
We are in the last half day of the final push of the dragon heresy kick starter. We are 3,000 from the big offset print run goal, where all books get upgraded to the best quality.
We are in the last half day of the final push of the dragon heresy kick starter. We are 3,000 from the big offset print run goal, where all books get upgraded to the best quality.
Observation gets a lot of confusion and hate on the boards due to some fluff text in the beginning. Still, what’s going on with Perception and other perception-based skills? When should each be used? Perception As far as I can tell, this one is simply sensory acuity, with a small side-order of data processing. One…
+Jeffro Johnson put together his list of best blogs of 2014, and much to my surprise (especially since I had no idea this was being considered) Gaming Ballistic was his top choice. He was quite clear on his reasons, though: #1 on the list was my interview with +Steve Jackson, and the rest of the Firing Squad…
Just for fun, here are the subclasses that will appear in Dragon Heresy. Bold are new, original, or heavily modified subclasses. Plain text appear in SRD5.1 and have been minimally modified for the game. Barbarian – Path of the Berserker Barbarian – Path of Primal Runes Bard – College of Lore Bard – College of…
Over at Mailanka’s Musing, he throws down a fun post, akin to my Technical Natasha effort, describing the fight between Luke and Vader in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a good breakdown, and worth the read. One thing that came up in the comments was the frequency of blade-to-blade pushing. This is, I believe, referred…
I’ll just start by assuming the conclusion: Dual-Weapon Attack should die. I’m not saying it doesn’t serve a purpose, but I think Dual-Weapon Attack should be relegated to a special case of Rapid Strike, rather than a separate thing. What you say? Let’s look at DWA vs Rapid Strike, and see what gives. First something…
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. .600 Nitro Express (15.7x76mm) The .600NE is an “elephant gun” cartridge introduced in 1903, and was the largest round used in the “heyday” of…