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I’m playing in a Dungeon Fantasy RPG game run by the author of Hand of Asgard and Norðlondr Folk: Kevin Smyth. There’s a magic shop in town, run by a woman named Camelia. One of the setting features – which I highly endorse and tried to mechanize a bit in Nordlond/Torengar by having “The Shattering”…
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Features | GURPS | GURPSDay | UncategorizedGURPS Day Summary May 6 – May 12, 2016
Thursday is GURPSDay, and we’re back into the swing of things This last week saw the release of GURPS Disasters: Meltdowns and Fallout, which marks the first volume in what has been on the wishlist for a while in the disasters series. It’s not explicitly tied to After the End, but global nuclear catastrophe is…
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My Teenage Daughter: Doing the Impossible
So, she’s rounded up three other people and managed to arrange a weekly (!!) D&D game. Every Friday. Firm commits. And apparently I’m running it. “We’ll need characters for three of us; E already has one.” “Um. We make characters AFTER Session Zero. We don’t even know what game we’re playing yet.” “Hmmm. I guess…
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Features | GURPS | GURPSDay | RPG SystemsGURPS Day Summary Dec 2 – Dec 8, 2016
Thursday is GURPSDay, and once again, GURPSDay comes to you from Thailand, where it’s currently about 11am on Friday morning. And also once again, we owe today’s post to my GMPC (or Heinlein character) Wife – martial arts instructor, PhD in Environmental Engineering, expert trumpet player, and ridiculously attractive redhead. And she can weld plumbing…
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Lost Hall of Tyr Backerkit Closes Friday Jan 25
We’re coming down to the end now. This Friday, on Jan 25, the Backerkit phase for Lost Hall of Tyr (updated and expanded!) will end. What does that mean? 1) I will lock all orders currently placed, and start the process of charging cards. 2) For those folks whose cards successfully go through, I will…
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Sticking it to ’em: Impaling vs Piercing Damage
+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…
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