Shield Blanks waiting to be built
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Shield Blanks waiting to be built

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An update: turns out I had more wood than I thought. 1x Poplar experiment. Could be up to 36″ in diameter, good for someone up to 6’4″ tall.  2x 33.5″ aspen. Good for 5’5″ to 5’11” 4x 35.5″ aspen. Good for 5’9 to 6’3″ tall The smaller shields are going to be donated to the…

Spear Combat: Reaching out
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Spear Combat: Reaching out

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A nifty question on the GURPS Forums about fighting with a one-handed spear. GURPS On the one-second time scale of GURPS, the grip change needs to be handled with higher resolution. When I fight with a one-handed spear in my viking martial arts class, shield in the other hand, I use a sliding technique to…

Aspects, Clustered Disads and GURPS
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Aspects, Clustered Disads and GURPS

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I’m gearing up to play in a DFRPG/DF game (I think DF) with Christopher Rice. My character will be a classic Elf Scout, with an extra 100 points baked in from the start for Reasons. He’s definitely a bad-ass. That being said, the way that you pick disads in GURPS can be rough. You need…