A thread on the forums made me break out Excel again so I can look at the “optimum” one-one-one level of deceptive attack for all combinations of DA and defense level. The answer is darn complicated, turns out. Here’s an example of what I mean: This is the example Cadmus faces when he’s got his…
I started to catch up with a few TV shows last night, having caught a break in terms of stuff to do. I watched the two episodes of Agents of SHIELD that were on Hulu. It’s off to a good start, and had a typical Whedonesque “here’s a character you might like. Oops, dead” in…
I interviewed +Steve Jackson, who of course wrote and published the game system for which I write, GURPS. +Jeffro Johnson said nice things about the interview. Steve and I covered a lot of ground, much of which could have elicited an even larger response than I made during the interview itself. I’m going to excerpt…