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Detailed Shotgun Ammo – House Rule

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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…

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Go welcome Chain Link and Concrete

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New blog alert! +Cheomesh is blogging, and covering topics near and dear to my heart. Weapons, guns, fighting, GURPS, and he’s got d20 stuff in there too. Go check out his stuff, and you’ll find longish, well thought out posts covering a lot of combative stuff. Chain Link and Concrete. Go read it.

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Musings on the Steve Jackson Interview – Part 2 (mostly VTTs)

Bygamingballistic

I interviewed +Steve Jackson, who of course wrote and published the game system for which I write, GURPS. +Jeffro Johnson said nice things about the interview. Steve and I covered a lot of ground, much of which could have elicited an even larger response than I made during the interview itself. I’m going to excerpt…

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In defense of the cinematic (Damage and Quick-Shooting Bows)

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I do a lot of posting about “realistic” stuff, and increasing the verisimilitude and simulationism achievable – hopefully at minimal cost – for GURPS. An example – instead of being able to accelerate from a standing stop to full Move in one turn, if you halve your acceleration (so on turn one, Joe average can…

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Returning to the ebb and flow of combat: All-Out Whatevers

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Revisiting a theme: what about the interplay between attacks, defenses, maneuvers, and combat options? All-Out Attacks Over in the SJG Forums on June 7, a poster was wondering about All-Out Attack, and if the “you lose your defenses” thing is too harsh. Some posters pointed out that All-Out Attack was unrealistic, awful, a death sentence,…