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Thursday is again GURPSDay, though I’m posting on a Friday. How very LEGO Movie. An eventful week for GURPS. Don’t believe me? Fine! Check out the GURPS News, which is chock full of new info. Also SJG released Steampunk 3: Soldiers and Scientists yesterday. Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2 was put on the “watch this space”…
+Peter V. Dell’Orto has an interesting note today about the challenges of the Retreat defensive option when using mapless combat. It’s worth a read. I was intrigued by the option of just always giving people the benefit of increased defenses, the +1 for retreating for a parry/block, or the +3 for Dodge (or parry when using Karate, Judo,…
Today at 10am Central Time . . . in a bit more than two hours after I publish this update . . . the second third-party publication for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG will launch on Kickstarter. The Citadel at Norðvorn is a mini-setting for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG. It consists of three major settlements, many small villages,…
My friend Ursula is a sales coach and business advisor. “UpLevel Now” is her latest strategy assessment and alignment tool/book. it reminds me very strongly of the McChrystal Group’s CrossLead framework where you use a structured approach to help you identify the critical parameters to create a high-performing team. In UpLevel Now, Ursula uses her…
The recent post and discussion on dodging lasers in GURPS has led to further thoughts. One of the things that happens in real target shooting, and presumably it can happen in combat too, though it would be under considerably more stress, is a shooter knows he’s off target. His breathing is wrong, he feels a sneeze…
The concept of Trained ST features prominently in GURPS Martial Arts: Technical Grappling. It’s one of the core rules concepts, and is designed to represent my personal observations that being a really, really good grappler can substitute somewhat for being really strong . . . but if you can be really good and really strong,…