dr_kromm | Another week in the life of GURPS

This week is named Circe to commemorate my parrot, who passed away this week. On a less-maudlin note:

• We released Pyramid #3/24: Bio-Tech. My thinly veiled advertising is here. All you need to know is this: There's a tool-using cephalopod on the cover.

• We reviewed the near-final PDF of GURPS Low-Tech Companion 1: Philosophers and Kings, by Matt Riggsby (wombattery) and Bill Stoddard (whswhs). It's all about thinkers and rulers, and their tech. I can't name a date, but November 2010 doesn't seem unlikely.

• We reviewed the diagrams for GURPS Tactical Shooting, by Hans-Christian Vortisch . . . all kinds of little hex maps showing how to enter a building, check corners, etc. With guns. As art was the Last Great Obstacle, this foreshadows a release before the end of 2010.

• Ken Hite (princeofcairo) sent me the outstanding info I needed for GURPS Horror, plus a few corrections to the edited draft. I should be able to finish the remaining tasks on that book before the end of October 2010.

• I reviewed the first draft of the first volume of the series that Jason "PK" Levine (peekitty) is writing, and I'm 60% of my way through my review of the second installment. Another hint: There are also chupacabras and rogue angels involved. And axes.

• Steven (waitingforgo) and I made insane amounts of progress dealing with backlogged e23 proposals.

• We seem to be getting on top of errata. The errata page for the recently released GURPS Low-Tech is up already. Not that we're proud of errata, but we're definitely thrilled that reports aren't sitting around for months any more.

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Sympathies on the loss of your parrot. It's hard to see them go.

Kromm: "You like axes quite a bit. Most people prefer swords."

Me: "Axes are awesome. They don't get enough love."

Kromm: "What about a nice mace or hammer?"

Me: "Nuts to that. Gimme cleaving power over smashing power any day."

Kromm: "Okay, okay . . ."

There's a reason "axe" spray gets the fly honeys while "mace" spray is used against rapists, after all.

PK

Now we have to figure out what sort of personal-care products are marketed as "Sword" and "Hammer".

I never leave home without a dab or two of Bec De Corbin.

what sort of personal-care products are marketed as "Sword" and "Hammer".

Razors and baking soda (used as toothpaste).

I can't wait to see this one in print. Best playtest I've ever been involved with; I'd say it's the best I've ever led, but that's a 50-50 chance. And HT wasn't bad either. Still, TS got a great workover.

Condolences on the passing of your pet.

We seem to be getting on top of errata

Super! I have re-re-re-submitted the Create Gate erratum errata from a while back.

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