Ah, yes. Cabaret Chicks on Ice. The joke-title for GURPS Low-Tech for quite a while on the SJG Forums. Recently, since it seems like forever (but only seems that way) since my manuscript went into the queue in production and saw the rough PDF go around, I’ve been going crazy waiting for the Big Damn…
All GURPS damage has three parts to it, even if much of the time they’re implicit. In order of how it’s applied, which is our first point of potential controversy! 1) Armor divisor. Yes, on a hit and a failed defense if one is allowed, the first thing you probably do as ask “how much armor,…
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…