Originally in Technical Grappling, Grip ST – how many dice you get to roll when you grab someone – was figured differently. During revision, it was changed, and during playtest, it was altered, folder, spindled, and mutilated. Ultimately, I decided to go with a precise way to combine limbs when grappling. Figure out the contribution…
Am I bound and determined to revisit and rewrite every GURPS rule? No. But in writing Technical Grappling, I became very taken with effect rolls, in the vein of hit points and control points. The general progression of a hit roll followed by an effect roll is familiar and favored by gamers. Personally, I like…
Apologies for references without links, but I’m behind a work firewall and for some reason they don’t want me surfing the SJG Forums from work. Unreasonable folks, corporate IT. It’s like they want me working or something. In any case, there’s a weekly thread that got started up over on the GURPS forums called “Tweak…