Reloading Press: 6.5 Grendel
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Reloading Press: 6.5 Grendel

The Reloading Press is an at-least-weekly feature here on Gaming Ballistic for 2016. Each week it looks at some interesting real-world cartridges and presents them with hopefully-useful information in GURPS Format. 6.5x39mm (6.5 Grendel) The 6.5 Grendel was designed with the goal to give the AR-15 platform “legs” out to 200-800 yard, and even farther…

Sunday Review: GURPS Action 2: Exploits
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Sunday Review: GURPS Action 2: Exploits

This is a continuation of my comprehensive review of the Action series. The first volume, Action 1: Heroes, was 35 pages long, and revolved around creating characters, mostly via the vehicle of providing character templates and the means for fleshing them out. But it also fleshed out the concept of Wildcard skills, as well as…

Extreme Disadvantage for 5e
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Extreme Disadvantage for 5e

I was chatting with +Peter V. Dell’Orto and +Tim Shorts last night online, walking them through the basis of my Heretical DnD project.  We were talking about the consequences of taking wounds, or having had your Stress Points worn down. Just brainstorming in an idle fashion, tossing out ideas, and someone, I think Peter, mentioned that if things were…