Character Collections: Funded on Day One!
Time to put on that pretty floral bonnet and party. Hopefully I won’t end up married to a psychotic redhead. My current mostly-stable redheaded wife would not be amused.
Wayne Oliver, CEO of Oliver Industries and he who bankrolls the Alien Menace missions, has plans for his hunters, that he’s talked about publicly. Well, not “publicly,” but within the team structure. Just so that they feel he’s got long-term plans for what he’s doing.. There are two kinds of teams. Scout/probe teams and hunter…
Wow. Yet another snowstorm. Looks like total snowfall tonight and tomorrow could be 6-12 inches. Lovely. Today is GURPS-Day, but I don’t have anything for the first time in a while. Maybe I’ll postpone until tomorrow. I’ve been busy, though, with a few writing projects with +Peter V. Dell’Orto, as he mentioned in his own post….
Over on the forums, a poster asked another about a comment made that the writer used a simplified version of both Technical Grappling and The Last Gasp. The first poster noted that TLG was “complicated,” and asked for what simple rules were in place. While I think I might take exception to the complicated thing,…
We start the game in combat, at a distance of no less than 200′ from the foes, which are two clawed scarecrow like things. The first event is screaming children and two scarecrows – of a likely six total, plus a theorized hag – and the scarecrows hit the older elf guy, knocking him to…
A retroactive (and oft-repeated) introduction: After an actual-play hiatus where I was mostly writing and playtesting for GURPS. I was invited to play in a Pathfinder game, and after a few sessions, it was time to buy the book and learn the rules! I decided to try and read the Pathfinder rules cover-to-cover and see…
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. .44 Magnum/10.9x33mmR The .44 Magnum is one of the iconic “this is serious business” cartridges both in film and in reality. When you’re packing…