I was going to post this one today. But after 36 hours traveling and very little sleep, I realized that I had it wrong. At length. I’ll be revisiting this, most definitely. But I will say this: I was going to set up “believable” as an overall goal that people who clamor for “realism” actually…
I am not a fan of ST rolls as skill tests in GURPS. Quick Contests or Regular Contests . . . meh, at best. ST is not like IQ, DX, and HT, which are all fairly well described in game mechanical terms as to what they do, though in a way they do it a…
Over at Dungeon Fantastic, +Peter V. Dell’Orto comments casually that he assumes that the local environment in his Felltower Dungeon Fantasy campaign matches whatever is going on outside his house at the moment. I thought this was brilliant, and extensible The internet, plus sites like weather.com, weather underground, and apps such as WeatherBug all allow you to get…