Musings and Minutia about ttRPGs

Tag: HERO System

  • Machine Guns in ttRPGs, Part 1

    “I’ve got a bullet with your name on it, and we’re gonna keep firing till we find it!!” A friend of mine was discussing Cyberpunk RED with me; he was talking about how he didn’t like the auto-fire rules; how the game handles machine guns being used to spew out bullets. He said he ignored…

  • Multitudes of Damage in Many Different Games

    Combat, for better or worse is one of the more prominent aspects of many tabletop RPGs. However, since it is typically the more mathematically involved part of such games, it’s an excellent way to illustrate how game mechanics matter, and changes to them can influence how a game plays out. GURPS 4th Edition We’ll start…