Dungeon Fantastic

I just felt like writing this right now. It overlaps some other posts I've written, which I'll back-link to when I have a bit of tim...

What are the best ways to inflict Knockdown rolls on a foe in GURPS via injury? Information from Basic Set, p. 399-400, for GURPS, and Explo...

The excellent Delvers to Grow has a talent called Master at Arms . It's a very, very good idea. I won't sum it up here, because y...

I don't think it's actually possible to learn to fight in one way, without learning enough to help you fight in others.* The fact is...

I almost forgot to specific note on Part III - maximum defense. Maximum defense? Even with a skill cap and a DB cap, it's possible ...

This is Part III of a 4-part series on combat skill caps, defense caps, and fixed feint/deceptive attack rules. It's going to connect to...

Today I'm going to look at the effect on needed defenses if you're using the modified Feint and Deceptive Attack rules linked in the...

Logically, I think the best place to start is with defensive caps. That is, limits on active defense bonuses such as DB and Enhanced Defense...

This idea came to me while I was responding to a post about Psi Wars . For people who want to cap Deceptive Attack and Prediction Shot in ...

One of my players commented on a previous post, and said: " These guys are struggling with orcs and norkers. Well, not really. It’s r...

Today is an installment of Melee Academy. It's a look at the melee weapons and tactics used in RPGs, and it's aimed at being educati...

On my post Melee Academy: Why I Don't See a Lot of Disarming , one of the commenters (TheOneRonin, posting as Unknown) said, in part: ...

This is part of a multi-blog look at disarming. For more on this specific topic, check out the links on Doug's page: Melee Academy: ...

I thought I'd get down a couple of points about common combat mistakes I see in GURPS, and it grew into this. These are errors I see i...

The is (was?) a whole thread about this over on the SJG Forums. I saw the title, and emailed Doug and said, "That's our next Melee ...

The other day a thread came up on the SJG forums that questioned how feints work. Naturally and inevitably for the forums, the thread derail...

Evaluate is basically unused in my games. The benefit is a bit small (+1 per turn, max +3, one turn per plus), ends early, and generally i...

How do you deal with superior foes? Not foes with superior numbers, but foes who are just better than you? That is the subject of this inst...