A hierarchy tag to help with sorting the games by rules system
I was thinking for a moment about campaigns I have run in GURPS. Reaching way back to college to present day (or, really, a few years back, when last I actually ran anything): Dark Conspiracy – I hated hated hated the Dark Conspiracy game system. It just did not work for me. So my very…
I got to play GURPS at TL9 this past Saturday, with +Jeromy French , +kung fu hillbilly , +Alina Cole , +Carl Miller , and +Matt Sutton . We got into a battle with lasers and slugthrowers. There was an awful lot of successful dodging going on. Some of this just “the dice say what the dice say.” But after a bit, you could tell from…
What’s a gun? OK, back up. We know what a gun is. A slugthrower. Chemical combustion or explosive powered projectile delivery vehicle. Or is it? In GURPS, a gun is a kinetic energy delivery vehicle. Since Fourth Edition did away with blowthrough – a mechanic where massive damage would overpenetrate and be lost – more…