GenCon: The Big, The Free, and The Teardown
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GenCon: The Big, The Free, and The Teardown

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Saturday was packed for me. I was busy from 9am until 10:30pm with good important stuff. Sunday, the last day of the con, was basically open for me – a free day – until the show closed, at which point I was to help tear down the booth. The Big Day Well, I awoke realizing…

Aggressive Shield Use in GURPS
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Aggressive Shield Use in GURPS

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Recently I’ve been on a bit of a shield kick. One-on-one with Shields: Upsetting the conventional wisdom shows a video by Roland Warzecha of Dimicator, and how he’s using a heater shield much like he uses a buckler. While he owns the fact that he’s an expert in sword-and-buckler play based on the I.33 manual, he’s…

GURPS surges PoD into Retail Stores
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GURPS surges PoD into Retail Stores

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“But GURPS is dead,” comes the frequent observation. Untrue, but frequent. With most releases coming via PDF, and nearly all of them only available via the in-house Warehouse23 store, unless you know GURPS, want GURPS, and pay attention to GURPS, likely you won’t see it. Combine that with a relatively restrictive take on the game…