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Action Points and exhausting defense

After I posted the link to my thoughts on spending HP (and thus depleting a reserve of grit and skill) to do more damage to your foe (depleting his reserve of grit and skill) the poster Kalzazz made a comment, which had an interesting bit in it: ‘The enemy made his attack by 3, I…

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Why the five games chosen for Violent Resolution?

Over on the GURPS Forums, someone wondered why I’d chosen the games I chose. Why those in particular? Well . . . If you’re doing gaming you HAVE to do D&D. Whether it’s D&D5 or Pathfinder is your call, but that was the first big popular system and more or less remains so. D&D is…

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Violent Resolution – The End of the Revolution

This marks the end of the Violent Resolution blog series here on Castalia House. I’d like to thank Jeffro for recommending me, and Castalia House for giving me a shot at publishing this series on the different facets of combat mechanics in my chosen systems. What did I take away from it all? Narrative Games…