+Peter V. Dell’Orto did a nice post on critical hits yesterday. One thing that came up a few times is that there are cases where if you only crit on a 3 and have a skill of 3, then you’re either rolling an awesome crit, or you’re screwed. This can be avoided, though, by using margin…
I love the Size and Speed/Range Table in GURPS. EABA has one too. I think both games get things right and wrong here, and since I have an idle moment, I want to say why. What’s Right? Where do these kinds of charts succeed? While there’s lots of small things, here are the big ones…
This is my character for +Mark Langsdorf‘s Modern meets Dungeon Fantasy mashup, Castle of Horrors. Some thoughts on his generation and makeup are intermixed. Neil Stevenson (200 points) Neil finished high school and joined the Army, where he was a pretty good soldier, mostly light infantry. Ranger training. Probably saw a bit of combat. When he…