Dungeon Fantasy Nordlond #9: “Boo!”
This is a fantastic (and spoiler-filled) snapshot at how you can use a powerful tricksy spellcasting fae as a long-term bad guy.
Go back to the prior writeups, using material from Hall of Judgment, and even Rosgarth and Forest’s End, to see how it came to this place.
In his weekly update on all things GURPS, +Sean Punch notes: We made the final text corrections to GURPS Martial Arts: Technical Grappling, by Doug Cole (douglascole). We still have art wrinkles to iron out, however. Depending on how much you know about the internal production process, this may be cryptic. This is good news, though. I know what the text…
Thursday is GURPSDay, and now we face that odd time between Turkey Day and Christmas, where we’re all supposed to pretend to get stuff done, but really? Well, in any case I will be in Thailand for the next two weeks, so the next two GURPSDays will be handled by my lovely wife. She will be…
A bit under three weeks ago, Che Webster (who creates the Roleplay Rescue podcast) tossed down a few thoughts about declaring defenses first in the Dungeon Fantasy RPG. It was helpful at his table and addressed some concerns that his group expressed. I commented about it here: Commentary: Che Webster’s Defense Roll Reversal we then did…
Welcome to the second installment of Melee Academy! Grappling seems pretty cool. The benefits for throwing someone to the ground are pretty impressive in GURPS. They have to spend a few turns getting up (unless then can Acrobatic Stand), while prone they’re at -4 on their hit rolls and -3 while defending. While kneeling, which…
A while back I promised to go through the fight scene between Natasha Romanov (Black Widow) and a small army of mook guards from Iron Man 2, using Technical Grappling. Not a bad topic for my 200th post since Dec 26, 2012! The key fight takes place in about a minute, from roughly 0:20 in…
Thursday is GURPSDay, and after thinking about the concept of encouraging more Roll and Shout when doing Quick Contests last week, I ended on a cliffhanger saying that I thought there’d be a good way to adjudicate guns combat a bit faster. Not much about GURPS task resolution at its core is hard. Roll 3d6…