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Armor Piercing on a sliding scale

Bygamingballistic

Thursday is GURPS-Day, and as part of writing a future entry in my Violent Resolution series (it should show up as my fourth content post, I think), I got thinking about armor piercing weapons again when reading about how the Oakeshott Type XVII sword typically had hexagonal cross sections so they could punch through armor…

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Ogre Returns: Marginal Ogre Victory this time

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In Command of the Mk III Tutorial Mk III Setup My four-year-old daughter decided that she needed to challenge me to a game of Ogre, which meant we got to play again today. My wife “helped” her play. This time it was “better,” ending in an Ogre marginal victory. Found out too late I’d misinterpreted…

Getting the Size/Speed Range Table Right and Wrong
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Getting the Size/Speed Range Table Right and Wrong

Bygamingballistic

I love the Size and Speed/Range Table in GURPS. EABA has one too. I think both games get things right and wrong here, and since I have an idle moment, I want to say why. What’s Right? Where do these kinds of charts succeed? While there’s lots of small things, here are the big ones…

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Grappling at really low ST in GURPS

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A recent post in the forums, which started off with a link to this very blog – specifically my old post on how ST rolls are problematic in GURPS, brought up a very interesting edge case that I really wish had come up explicitly in the Technical Grappling playtest. It has to do with scale….

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Pyramid #3/61: Coming to Grips with Realism (Technical Grappling Designer’s Notes)

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In Pyramid #3/61: The Way of the Warrior, we see a very, very focused set of articles: six articles plus +Steven Marsh‘s intro and Random Thought Table, contributed by five authors . . . and the lead article was co-authored! That being said, this one was interesting. “How about a theme issue,” said Steven. BAM!…