Yesterday’s mission wrap-up prompted some fairly strong (but limited – only one Anonymous poster and some comments by the players themselves) commentary about the “realism” and design of limb armor for our Alien Menace squad. Their personal armor is basically DragonSkin – the Advanced Body Armor from High-Tech, which provides DR 35 (10d). Problem was,…
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…
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…