Prioritizing Defense, Prelude
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Prioritizing Defense, Prelude

This is going to be a bit of a meta-post, in that I’ve been trying to work around an idea about running defensive-oriented combat in RPGs ever since I published the related article Unpacking Failed Attack Rolls in GURPS. In it, I note in the On Guard! and What’s the Point? sections that RPGs tend to…

Admin: Gaming Ballistic on the Web
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Admin: Gaming Ballistic on the Web

Gaming Ballistic is a publisher of roleplaying games, and this note lets you know where you can find Gaming Ballistic on the Web. As a company, I support the 5e-derived Dragon Heresy system, D&D5e through the Open Gaming License (OGL), and OSR products, usually with a focus on Swords & Wizardry, especially since I’m getting…

Cooler Undead Encounters for Hall of Judgment
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Cooler Undead Encounters for Hall of Judgment

If you don’t have a Cleric in your party, specifically one with Turning, you might not need this. But if you do, or just want to make the standard 250-point Dungeon Fantasy RPG characters work a bit harder to kill undead in Hall of Judgment, consider the following. What follows inevitably contains spoilers.