Sunday, 27 July 2014

With Your Pants Down: Why the Fighting While Seated technique isn't cinematic

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Jacques-Louis David's La Mort de Marat In GURPS, there are several stances characters can be in. They can be standing, kneeling, cr...
Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Gadgets and Gewgaws: Miscellaneous Low-Tech equipment and rules

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" But it was Egill and not a bear that was hiding in the bushes, and when he saw Berg-Önundur, he drew his sword. There was a ...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Naked Steel and Ambition Part 2: Coming to grips with your sword

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In my last post , I discussed how laying hands on a sword blade wasn't as strange an idea as an average person might think. I also...

Naked Steel and Ambition Part 1: Gripping a blade in bare hands?

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Would you ever grab a sharp blade with your bare hands? When an armored knight faces another armored knight, rarely does it resemble t...
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Monday, 5 May 2014

Help, I Can't Hold My Sword: A short post on gauntlets

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One more post on the nature of armor, then we'll move on. I swear. This is another short one. Let me quote from Low Tech: Instant A...
Sunday, 4 May 2014

Iron Joints: Why giving full rigid DR against joint locks makes absolutely no sense

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"When I see that with the sword I could do nothing to you, instantly I use this catch from grappling, so that I believe and see an...

Super Edge Protection Part 2: Newfangled high-tech armor

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In my last two posts, we discussed the Super Edge Protection system I designed, where armor is given an Edge Protection (EP) value in a...