One of the nice things about interacting with the GURPS creative community is that every now and then someone takes something you’ve done and really, really goes to town on it. Sometimes it’s a review, sometimes a critique, sometimes an improvement or upgrade.
Mailanka took my article Conditional Injury from Pyramid #3/120 (my last article in Pyramid before, sigh, it closed down), and wrote, well . . . a lot about it.
Worth a read.
In Update 9 (and a few before) I mentioned a new reward level. This $250 pledge is a seat at the table with me at GameHole con, where I’ll run Hall of Judgment for those that attend. There will be six reserved seats, and two open seats for walk-ups. The game will start at 4pm…
Hicks: I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher. Hicks: [Hicks hands the rifle to Ripley] Feel the weight. Ripley: Okay. What do I do? The M41 is iconic. It defines the look and feel of one…
What happened before After the big showdown at the subway station, we found ourselves at least temporarily free from persecution by the sidhe, specifically the Children of the Storm. Having defeated them sufficiently in mostly-honorable combat, we managed to extricate ourselves from that. That left us headed for a bit of a time-skip, and we…
Dramatis Personae The Commander (Doug) – telekinetic super-soldier with a really angry dog (Yukio). The dog is a powerful ally (250-300 points) and very intelligent and very, very aggressive. Arc Light (Christian) – battlsuited gadgeteer with electrical powers The Rat Queen (Emily) – brick with super-perception; made of actual rats Eamon Finnegan (Kyle) – smooth…
This week moved solidly from “Backerkit” phase of Character Collections to “production and manufacturing.” Lots of time with Serif Affinity Publisher working up the counter sheets, and collecting errata for the books before they go into manufacturing. Also spent most of Thursday on my Quarterly income statement. Backerkit “closed” (though pre-orders are still open), cards…
There’s an interesting discussion over on the forums about using the Slip maneuver – a retreat in the forward direction – to maneuver around your foe. +Sean Punch provided some feedback on how this should be treated, and how when looking at a system using discrete one-second turns, sometimes judgement must be exercised to ensure sanity….