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More uses for Tactics in GURPS

This was a bit of off-the-cuff, but I wonder if there should be a few more uses for Tactics, or the re-rolls granted by virtue of a successful Tactics contest, in GURPS. Tactics seems like it should do more, to me, anyway. Things like: Make a Tactics roll to get the benefit of partial cover…

Apropos of Nothing: Recovery from crippling injury

Apropos of Nothing: Recovery from crippling injury

So, it’s two weeks post-op. The procedure apparently went as well as it could go, I guess – information hasn’t been terribly forthcoming. They put in five surgical stainless screws (the phrase “living tissue over metal endoskeleton?” Yeah, it’s come up.) to affix the broken pieces of the calcaneus (heel bone) back together. Key questions…

Ballistic’s ballistic equations

Ballistic’s ballistic equations

I promise I’ll let this go at some point. But not today. In my little mishap from this past Tuesday, I estimate that I got tossed about 6-8 feet.  Well. That’s enough to calculate a trajectory! If we assume that I was launched at the most effective and efficient launch angle of 45 degrees for…