Sunday Review: Dark Conspiracy (GDW 1991)
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Sunday Review: Dark Conspiracy (GDW 1991)

Dark Conspiracy (First Edition Cover) Dark Conspiracy (published by the Games Designer’s Workshop, or GDW, in 1991, by Lester W. Smith) was a grim action/horror RPG set in a dystopian future where evils of all kinds plague the globe. This one came out when I was in college. The Gulf War had kicked off, if I recall…

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GURPS Day Test Post

Precis – This is a test post I’m using to try out a scripting method for GURPS Day Thursday is GURPS Day GURPS fans know that Thursday is new-release day at Warehouse 23. SJG doesn’t release a new digital supplement or Pyramid issue every week — but when we do, it’s on Thursday. That has been a tradition…

Shields Will Be Splintered (Shields in The Broken Blade)
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Shields Will Be Splintered (Shields in The Broken Blade)

My article in this latest issue of Pyramid, The Broken Blade, presents an alternate framework for weapon breakage based more or less on looking at the HP of the weapon in question. In fact, the basis for the calculations I did was to (say) compare the HP of a sword (2-4 lbs of steel) to…