Aeon Campaign: S1E6 – Crazy is as crazy does
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Aeon Campaign: S1E6 – Crazy is as crazy does

Dramatis Personae The Commander (Doug) – telekinetic super-soldier with a really angry dog (Yukio). The dog is a powerful ally (250-300 points) and very intelligent and very, very aggressive. Arc Light (Christian) – battlsuited gadgeteer with electrical powers The Rat Queen (Emily) – brick with super-perception; made of actual rats Eamon Finnegan (Kyle) – smooth…

Reloading Press: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)
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Reloading Press: 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)

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. 7.62x51mm NATO The 7.62x51mm cartridge occupies an interesting place in the US military history. After the tremendous success of the .30-06 semi-automatic weapon in…

Heretical DnD: More on armor and combat simulations
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Heretical DnD: More on armor and combat simulations

Since my original forays into tinkering with the combat and narrative mechanics in D&D5, I’ve written a combat simulator to look at how quickly two combatants can drop each other using my rules assumptions, including for armor. I’ve found out a few things, which have sent me back to . . . not the drawing…