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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…
In a comment on a previous post, +Jeromy French brought up the oft-cited statistic that if a knife-wielding assailant is within 21 feet of a person with a holstered pistol, by the time you could draw your gun and ready it, you’re likely to have been stabbed. Possibly a lot. OK, forget reality for a moment. Is…
We’re in the home stretch. Dinner’s over, settling into the end. I hope that ALL THE FOLLOWERS come on board. I know it’s unlikely. But still . . . lots of folks could come in and push us to 600 backers. In any case . . . I’m not going to inundate y’all. Thanks for…
This morning, we woke up and I made eggs, sausage, and our traditional Christmas cinnamon rolls. We did presents, the highlight of which for me was a gift card to Amazon which subsidized a benchtop mortiser, which will allow me to make my wooden practice swords much more easily (the hardest part is making the…
Back on track for a weekly update. This week was mostly about Tower of the Moon shipping. Even so, I got actual work done in the background on new projects. Delvers to Grow books are all out the door; international orders starting to arrive in the UK and EU. Only thing I have yet to…
I love talking about gaming, and recently two podcasts dropped (with two more on the way) either where I sat down with a host to chat, or featuring my Nordlond material. Who What Why Podcast I joined the Who What Why? Podcast last night and spoke for over an hour with Michael about this direct-to-Backerkit…