Another week in the life of GURPS

[dr_kromm]

Ah, Friday night. It might be time for the weak to rest, but line editors are made of sterner stuff. Arr! Without further ado, here's the latest on GURPS:

• We reviewed the draft PDF of Pyramid #3/3. More dog skull, baby, more dog skull. And propane – yeah! Look for this Real Soon Now.

• Nikki showed off a rough layout of GURPS Loadouts: Monster Hunters, by S.A. Fisher and Hans-Christian Vortisch. Garlic self-defense spray and silver-spitting man-portable miniguns shouldn't be too far off in the future.

• The final draft of GURPS Hot Spots: Renaissance Florence, by Matt Riggsby (wombattery), has arrived.

• I finished my final draft of GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles. Perky. It'll go into production next week.

• In GURPS Spaceships news, David Pulver turned in the first draft of GURPS Spaceships 5. Yes, this comes on the heels of news that GURPS Spaceships 3 and GURPS Spaceships 4 are in editing. David is a machine when it comes to, er, machines.

• I did a two-hour (or thereabouts) podcast interview about GURPS-y stuff with Joe Meyer at Meanwhile…, a d20 Radio feature. Look for it soon.

• Yet more progress has been made on the first draft of GURPS Low-Tech. To be entirely honest, I spent about 1/4 of my time this week slaying rules dragons with the writers (especially peterdellorto and whswhs).

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

And your efforts were much appreciated! It especially helps that you are fluent in physics and mathematics (more fluent than I am, in fact) and can explain things in those languages if need be.

There are a copy of residual questions presumably sitting in your inbox about catapults, but I think that material's about finalized. And happily I've managed to resolve the big puzzles about firearms and find enough information to do satisfactory test designs of Japanese matchlock guns, long and short. Once my interlibrary loan goes through I hope to be able to start work guns of other nations. So I'm hoping not to have to visit so many dragons on you in the next couple of weeks.

Enjoy the weekend!

[peterdellorto.livejournal.com]

Once the book comes out, I may need to do some Japanese teppojutsu styles - gun shooting martial arts!

And thanks for the rules answers. Mine didn't involve too much physics, being that I'm a total math moron.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I ran into a couple of Web pages about teppojutsu. They listed skills including not just shooting, but rapid reloading, sometimes bayonet use, and even clubbing people with the stock.

I've just finished the design for a handgonne: one of those medieval little cannons on a stick that could shoot either lead balls or short arrows. I actually found a Web page for a guy who owns one and has test fired it and measured the muzzle energy. It's amazing what you can find on hobbyists' Web pages.

[wombattery.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the books. ILL is proving the bane of my existence on this project.

(Just as Excel is my saving grace. No way I'd have had the patience to do the math underlying the construction rules or container table on my own.)

[spearweasel.livejournal.com]

Dog skull? GURPS Jugging? GURPS postapocalypse stuff at long last?

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a dark secret that Pyramid #3/3 will have a post-apocalypse theme. I'm just being silly and pimping an article that peterdellorto and I wrote.

[peterdellorto.livejournal.com]

It started as an article I was writing, but Sean was WAY into it. So I sent it over for comments. He re-wrote it and expanded it. One or two more passes later, it was like 50% larger and 200% cooler.