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The occasional silliness of Dodging lasers

I got to play GURPS at TL9 this past Saturday, with +Jeromy French , +kung fu hillbilly , +Alina Cole , +Carl Miller , and +Matt Sutton . We got into a battle with lasers and slugthrowers. There was an awful lot of successful dodging going on. Some of this just “the dice say what the dice say.” But after a bit, you could tell from…

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The purpose of a gun (in TV and an RPG)

What’s a gun? OK, back up. We know what a gun is. A slugthrower. Chemical combustion or explosive powered projectile delivery vehicle. Or is it? In GURPS, a gun is a kinetic energy delivery vehicle. Since Fourth Edition did away with blowthrough – a mechanic where massive damage would overpenetrate and be lost – more…

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Actual Play: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy – Jade Regent

Skipping over all varieties of introductions and back story. Brody, our resident sneak-a-holic, returns from a foray into infiltrating the local nest of scum and villainy, to report that the girlfriend of the leader of the local Rimerunner’s guild has become recently reclusive and purchased an old hall a few days outside Karlsgard, the town…