Recently I’ve been on a bit of a shield kick. One-on-one with Shields: Upsetting the conventional wisdom shows a video by Roland Warzecha of Dimicator, and how he’s using a heater shield much like he uses a buckler. While he owns the fact that he’s an expert in sword-and-buckler play based on the I.33 manual, he’s…
Yesterday I wrote about the construction and use of Viking shields: a roughly 30-36″ diameter shield (call it a medium shield) of very, very light construction (6-8 lbs), low face thickness (7-9mm at the thickest, including the up to 1mm of hide and glue covering, and maybe 2mm wood at the edge, with another 2mm…
The quick pitch The GURPS 2021 PDF Challenge has funded, and ends Monday, July 19 at 5pm Central The buy in is $3 For that $3, you currently receive 10 PDFs, each of 10 pages. Each of these is very tightly written, and the instructions were “include as little crunch as possible.” GURPS may not…