Over at Mailanka’s Musing, he throws down a fun post, akin to my Technical Natasha effort, describing the fight between Luke and Vader in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a good breakdown, and worth the read. One thing that came up in the comments was the frequency of blade-to-blade pushing. This is, I believe, referred…
Over on the SJG Forums, user Railstar replied to a thread announcing last Thursday’s topic. It’s a valuable contribution to the discussion, so I reproduce it here: Disarms and Reach For GURPS at least, the Reach on Disarms is one reason to use it – because you can disarm someone from the combined Reach of…
In the previous segment, Never Tell Me the Odds 1 and Never Tell Me the Odds 2, the basic combat mechanics for five RPG systems were examined with the idea that if you don’t know the rough probabilities of doing what you want, you can’t really evaluate what you can do. Using the power of…