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The Last Gasp – Designer’s Notes

Thursday is GURPS-day, and so here’s today’s entry: This one isn’t really navelgazing. I wrote The Last Gasp for a few specific reasons, and I thought I’d share a bit of how the article came about. First, I’ve been a bit – frustrated is too strong a word – but at least a bit twitchy…

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Thrust, Parry, Step . . . pressing your opponent in GURPS

This post has a temporal shift. The link that inspired the post happened a month ago. Then I returned to it. Interesting what a month brings . . . ******* There’s a reason I follow Jeffro’s blog, since his post here crystallized something I’ve been toying with for a while. In GURPS, if you’re attacked, you…

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Skill Levels for Melee Combat in GURPS: Gladiatorial Smackdown

So, I wrote this Big Long Post on melee skill levels in GURPS. It got a lot of favorable attention. Then, on Saturday night, March 2, I joined +Vaclav Tofl and +Michael Keenan in a Gladiatorial smackdown. We each played 75 point characters, and since there were two PCs and five pre-gens, Michael and I were on the same team….