Worse Better Fantasy Armor
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Worse Better Fantasy Armor

+Mark Langsdorf has an armor design system on his blog that is geared towards Dungeon Fantasy levels of cool. Good armor to match the very high damages that heroes can dish out. Chatting with +Nathan Joy, who has played and GM’d with both Mark and myself in various games, he noted that it would be nice if…

Reloading Press: JHP Bullets
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Reloading Press: JHP Bullets

The GURPS rules for hollow point or expanding bullets in GURPS are pretty simple: you pick up one level of increased wounding modifier in exchange for having an armor divisor of (0.5), meaning that your projectile is really quite poor at penetrating armor, but pretty good at injuring people. So 2d+1 (0.5) pi- would normally…

Reloading Press: .45 ACP
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Reloading Press: .45 ACP

The Reloading Press is an at-least-weekly feature here on Gaming Ballistic for 2016. Each week it looks at some interesting real-world cartridges and presents them with hopefully-useful information in GURPS Format. .45 ACP / 11.43 x 23mm The .45 ACP was designed and adopted between 1910 and achieved “final” approval in 1911, when mated with…