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Gaming Ballistic Interview: Pyramid Magazine Panel Discussion

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For my second interview – technically I suppose it’s a podcast – I took +Sean Punch up on his suggestion during our discussion that the next time we did something like this, he’d like to have some of his fellow creators with him.I aimed big, and invited +Steven Marsh, Sean, +David Pulver and four of the most prolific contributors to…

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DEX Bonus Maxima for Armor?

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I’ve seen stuff like this before, with men in full harness climbing stairs and doing some basic gymnastics. It does make me think that the DEX penalties for wearing certain types of armor, especially very, very expensive and tailored plate harness, are overstated. I wonder if, instead of a maximum DEX bonus for Medium armor…

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Ready, Aim, and Aim, and Aim, and . . .

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When I wrote the post on making snap decisions under fire, I touched on aiming a bit, as well as tracking targets. I’m going to revisit that a bit, somewhat inspired by this thread, but not entirely. I’m going to be speaking qualitatively here, since some of the ideas kicking around in my head might…

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MapForge – you need to back this. Yes, you.

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Hernan Ruiz Carnauer is someone I’ve known for a bit. I’ve seen and envied his Battlegrounds program, and backed his last few Kickstarters, some of which funded, others which did not. This one, though: MapForge, falls into the category of “Shut up and take my money!” Look at those textures. And those are programmable tiles…

GURPS Day Summary Jan 28, 2016 – Feb 4, 2016
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GURPS Day Summary Jan 28, 2016 – Feb 4, 2016

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Thursday is GURPSDay, and below you can find the blog activity from the last seven days. Improvements since last time? MOAR PLAYERS! We’ve increased the number of blogs being polled by about 50% Only a week at a time – As was originally envisioned, GURPSDay will aggregate all the GURPS-tagged posts from the prior week….

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Advantaged Rolls in GURPS

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Over at Bat in the Attic, +Rob Conley thought about using the D&D5 Advantaged/Disadvantaged mechanic in GURPS, or for 3d6 rolls. Basically, roll extra d6s, and pick the lowest three. I’ve written about the D&D mechanic before. More than once. This has the beneficial aspects you’d find in D&D, in that it keeps the die roll in…