I’m a bit exhausted from the run-up to GURPSDay this week, but here’s something that was inspired by a fun game last night. GURPS: Simple Quick Contests last night I played in a game with a bunch of people I’ve never gamed with before. +Derrick White was gracious enough to accept me into his game. It’s a…
There have been some fun threads kicking around on various blogs and forums about the various mechanics and benefits and methods for hitting and not being hit in D&D5 and even OD&D/OSR-based games. I started thinking about this hard when +James Spahn linked to a post on shields in D&D over at Halfling’s Luck. That spawned some very…
My article in this latest issue of Pyramid, The Broken Blade, presents an alternate framework for weapon breakage based more or less on looking at the HP of the weapon in question. In fact, the basis for the calculations I did was to (say) compare the HP of a sword (2-4 lbs of steel) to…