Reloading Press: .45 ACP
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Reloading Press: .45 ACP

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. .45 ACP / 11.43 x 23mm The .45 ACP was designed and adopted between 1910 and achieved “final” approval in 1911, when mated with…

Kickstarter: Great Northern Games’ Council of Blackthorn

Kickstarter: Great Northern Games’ Council of Blackthorn

The guy who runs/owns/started Great Northern Games is a friend of mine from work. His first Kickstarter, Noble Treachery, was carried off quite well, and followed what I have to imagine is the pattern for successful crowdfunding efforts. He and his team of playtesters designed, tested, revised, and finalized the game. Then he sourced the…

Geek & Sundry on GURPS – some praise, some misconceptions
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Geek & Sundry on GURPS – some praise, some misconceptions

Image from Geek&Sundry Article. Pretty cool, actually. Geek & Sundry just published a piece on RPGs that aren’t D&D. The author, Jessica Fisher, paints a brief picture of four game systems that aren’t the 800-lb gorilla of the RPG world: D&D in its various incarnations. Interestingly enough, Ms. Fisher notes that she got her start…