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Armor as Dice: Keeping the Mystery

Armor as dice is a good way of simplifying and speeding some aspects of GURPS combat. It makes it pretty easy to determine if an attack penetrates armor – do the damage dice exceed the armor dice? If yes, injury occurs. If not, it doesn’t. Simple and binary. Maybe too much so. In my Alien…

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Alien Menace and the Megadungeon

A while back I commented that there seemed to be a real advantage to megadungeon play where it came to front-loading the prep. Well, we brought little Melody back from the hospital today, and looking forward to our first night home, I had been hoping to get in a session after we put my eldest…

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Making new gamers one by one

I am now outnumbered and flanked. We welcomed Melody Alexis Cole to our gaming circle yesterday.  She clocked in at just shy of 50cm and 2.9kg, and thus far – with one exception last night – has been a pretty content little cuddle-monkey. Her big sister loves calling herself a big sister. Mom is feeling…