After a six-week hiatus, +Erik Tenkar , +Peter V. Dell’Orto , +Tim Shorts , +Joe D , and a new player Reece, playing Bronan the 3rd level fighter. We carefully negotiate the 5% slope, assuming Bronan the level 3 fighter (yay, more meat shields!) cannot detect it. After securing healing potions and whatnot, we head to something that looked like a New Yorker…
Arm Lock as a combat technique has had a long and somewhat storied history in GURPS. As a result of a Forum thread (that I’m not going to link to here; it’s not the point) I went back and looked at commentary and execution on the technique since 4e came out in 2004. It’s worth…
+Erik Tenkar asked about hirelings. +Peter V. Dell’Orto wrote about them as well. A comment over on Erik’s blog feed made me think back to a campaign I ran (the Blasingdell campaign, the origin of Sterick the Red). It was a Fantasy game, before Dungeon Fantasy was a GURPS line. It was a map centered on the town…