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Alien Menace: First mission wrapup

Wrapped up the first session of Alien Menace yesterday, in a special bonus session that had me forgetting to communicate with several of the players, because I used too many communication channels to do it (mail, chat, Google Groups, Google Calendar). I wanted to finish the mission, because it was only supposed to take one…

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Observations on Guns Combat in GURPS

The Alien Menace game has given me some good insights into some of the slow and fast parts of playing high action tactical combat with GURPS. Fair warning, this is going to be a bit stream of consciousness. Much like life, the importance of telescoping time when you can – the “Cautious Advance/XCOM Movement” style where…

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Dungeon Fantasy 16: Wilderness Adventures

Work still nuts, but here’s a blatant shill: go buy DF16: Wilderness Adventures, by +Sean Punch. I have read perhaps two pages of this, and the biggest thing that strikes me right off the top is that it reads like Sean just had oodles and oodles of pure, unadulterated fun writing this. From the Introduction to the…