Join Sean Punch, Steven Marsh, and yours truly for a panel discussion about GURPS and Powered by GURPS. It’s being held in the panel-1 channel over at FnordCon2.3 on Discord.
Welcome to the second year of GURPSDay, and here’s the final pull for you guys. We’re currently drawing content from 85 blogs, having picked up Matt Riggsby’s Tetsujin no Lllama. Only 15 more to go until we’re pulling from 100! But we’ll need your help. How? Two action items: post more, recruit more. It’s really that simple. More…
As I type this, it is 24 hours until the Character Collections for The Fantasy Trip campaign closes, at 9pm Central time tomorrow. We crushed the funding goal in nine hours, and are only 39 backers (at $10 each!) away from unlocking the second stretch goal, for Character Collection 4: Wizards. Prognostication on Kickstarters is…
As I work through the details on my Alien Menace campaign, I find myself fretting about character templates and kitting up the fighters. On the one hand, if you’re basically doing GURPS XCOM, it’s basically all about how good a trooper you are (a template), and the ever-cooler gear you get. From a RPG and…
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. 7.62x51mm NATO The 7.62x51mm cartridge occupies an interesting place in the US military history. After the tremendous success of the .30-06 semi-automatic weapon in…
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…
It’s been a LONG time since an open playtest has been run like this, and so I wanted to kick the rust off the landing gear (or maybe clean the barrel and action before firing would be more apropos). Firstly: playtesting is fun. You get to see and influence a GURPS book that has already…