Shields Will Be Splintered (Shields in The Broken Blade)
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Shields Will Be Splintered (Shields in The Broken Blade)

My article in this latest issue of Pyramid, The Broken Blade, presents an alternate framework for weapon breakage based more or less on looking at the HP of the weapon in question. In fact, the basis for the calculations I did was to (say) compare the HP of a sword (2-4 lbs of steel) to…

Thursday REALLY IS GURPS Day!
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Thursday REALLY IS GURPS Day!

Thursday is GURPS Day Well knock me over with a feather. Something I started doing on a lark almost three full years ago, but kept up pretty steadily, was to declare that Thursday was GURPS Day (‘it must be true, because it rhymes’). Here in the Daily Illuminator is the awesome and flattering (to me)…

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Naval Cannons in DnD – Responding to a comment

+Christian Gelacio had a good comment on my post on Naval Cannon. Good enough that I didn’t want to relegate the discussion to that post. So here’s my response in full. His comments are going to be in bold/purple. Mine will be in regular text and indented. I do not believe it would be appropriate for…