Session reports and discussion of real games with real people
The Alien Menace game has given me some good insights into some of the slow and fast parts of playing high action tactical combat with GURPS. Fair warning, this is going to be a bit stream of consciousness. Much like life, the importance of telescoping time when you can – the “Cautious Advance/XCOM Movement” style where…
Grazed! In the GURPS Alien Menace game, we use armor as dice. So their DR 35 combat armor is now 10d on the torso. The 3d (5) blasters knock that down to 2d armor, doing 1d burn injury per hit through the torso. It’s fast and easy. But we wanted to come up with a…
Second game of Pandemic with Alina, and this time we win. I drew the Medic, which is a crazy-good role for keeping infections at bay. She drew the Operations Specialist. Once again, we got hit with an epidemic on the first turn of the game. Pretty minimal impact, all in all. She also drew something…