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.
So, to restate the obvious-but-important: It’s January. Time to really dig in and figure out what’s coming. To do that, though, I need to briefly cover where I’ve been. 2016: Dungeon Grappling. My first project. Broke even but I did it on time, on budget. 2017: Lost Hall of Tyr. Meh. 2018: Dragon Heresy, Hall…
+Peter V. Dell’Orto noted here that sometimes there’s a bit of a mental squaaawwwk! when it comes to comparing piercing vs. impaling damage types. He makes some good points, and partly, this ties into penetration and injury GURPS-physics. Impaling damage, by and large, is assumed to result from a deep, often narrow, penetrating injury that gets…
Mission X: Kick the door. Bring the violence. Don’t talk. Don’t hesitate. Solve problems with hot lead and cold nerve. If it ends in decisive, kinetic fury, this is your game. No plot armor. Just skill, steel, and nerve. Welcome to Mission X.
Some of the recent threads and comments about armor as dice have led me to think about alternate ways to get what I want out of Armor as Dice – less variable penetration so that if you armor rated for X (and GURPS defines X as 3.5 points per die for both penetration and resistance),…
I like it. I like that you need to have lots of different skills and abilities to make a character work. I like that one rolled or chosen high score doesn’t eliminate most of the challenges for a character. I like having to make choices as to what I’m good at (not that I mind…
This session of Gaming Ballistic’s Firing Squad has me sitting down with +Erik Tenkar of Tenkar’s Tavern. I first became aware of Erik through a few links to his blog, and rapidly realized that he puts a lot of content on there, as Dyvers estimated in his Great Blog Roll Call: an average of 85 posts per month….