I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year, wherever you are. I made good progress on a very stubborn project (actually, several of them, one was not gaming related) yesterday. It’s amazing what staring at a blank piece of paper will do sometimes. Looking forward to this year in gaming. I hope to…
I love tinkering with rules and mechanics. The things I’ve published have all been basically tweaks to the rules and mechanics of GURPS. I did do one for Frag, once. (Huh . . . all my old articles are available as free samples. Weird.) But why? The system is pretty darn cool as it is….
I speculate that GURPS (and maybe The Fantasy Trip; I wasn’t around for that one) started with a fairly generic view of damage that incorporated penetration, blunt trauma, injury, and a certain amount of gamist fun. GURPS High Tech introduced the dependence on the square root of kinetic energy as a “damage” scale by giving…