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What is Grappling anyway?

Over on the SJG Forums, a thread emerged that has started to wind down with an interesting question. GURPS (and other systems) author Bill Stoddard asked a basic question. Acknowledging that his real-world experience with grappling was basically zero, and his familiarity with the goals and methods and lingo was limited enough that, well, let’s use his…

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Pyramid #3/72 – Alternate Dungeons Review (Eidetic Memory: Good Dungeons)

This is an issue that could be a lot of fun. Dungeon Fantasy is full of entertaining tropes, some used for amusement, some for simplification, and some for the one true purpose of absolute and total mayhem. Ahem. Sorry. But Alternate Dungeons takes this and attempts to come at you sideways. I strongly suspect, given…

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Slightly Bad Sight

Bad Sight is tough on a PC. It’s a -25 point disadvantage and carries some serious ouch to it in either nearsighted or farsighted varieties. What if you want to have just slightly bad vision? Fairly easy: just make it leveled. I’m going to tweak point cost a bit as well. Nearsighted (-3 per level)…