Hirelings have a shelf life
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Hirelings have a shelf life

I’m in full-on playtest and writing mode on the Heretical D&D project, which is why my schedule for Reloading Press and Sunday Review have both been disrupted. But . . . the ever-interesting +Peter V. Dell’Orto has been writing about hirelings. It occurs to me that the other side of the ‘treat the hirelings like dirt’ coin…

Guns, Guns Sport, and Task Difficulty Modifiers
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Guns, Guns Sport, and Task Difficulty Modifiers

Thursday is GURPSDay, and a conversation on the Forums about modeling on-the-range use of Guns got me thinking about something. I suspect that it will cause a few issues when the rubber meets the road, but I also kind of like the general concepts. Right now, there are three flavors of fighting skills. The Combat version,…

Standard Operating Questions
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Standard Operating Questions

Thursday is GURPSDay, and while writing a review of GURPS Action 2: Exploits, hopefully for this coming Sunday, I was reading through the section on Squad SOP from Chapter 2, and the point made on “Subtlety” jumped out at me. The advice it gives is “The GM should ask each player to describe his PC’s…