Welcome to the second installment of Melee Academy! Grappling seems pretty cool. The benefits for throwing someone to the ground are pretty impressive in GURPS. They have to spend a few turns getting up (unless then can Acrobatic Stand), while prone they’re at -4 on their hit rolls and -3 while defending. While kneeling, which…
A recent post in the forums, which started off with a link to this very blog – specifically my old post on how ST rolls are problematic in GURPS, brought up a very interesting edge case that I really wish had come up explicitly in the Technical Grappling playtest. It has to do with scale….
I wrote The Last Gasp after musing about how tired I was after 30-60 seconds of working a large banana bag in class, as well as how quickly one can get fatigued while sparring and fighting. What if, I mused, every time you rolled the dice it used up a resource? Would that lead to…