How would your perception of gaming change if you knew your grandfather was a LARPer? If your Grandmother could calculate THAC0? I was driving in to work today and was thinking about getting my niece her first Pokemon starter deck when it hit me. First generation gamers are now old enough to be grandparents.
First off, nobody panic. Games have been around since the first cavemen played rock, rock, rock (widely regarded as unsuccessful). Even King Tut was a gamer, his game board is on display up in SF this week. And who can resist the old guys in the park playing chess? But we are the first to roll for saving throws. We bold few who enjoy games so much we adopt the title of “gamer” as part of our collective identity. Every generation that follows us is yet another wave of humanity who will ask “Am I in range to cast fireball?”
So what this means to me is that someday if I am lucky, I will get to explain D&D basic to my grandchild. “You see Billy, it came in a red box and a dwarf was both a race and a class.” And watch him scamper off into the next room where he will say that the game really lost its center when the 8.7edition came out. Oh and that the new holominis are so much better than the old holominis.
Yours truly,
Your Girl Friday
~Jason
Karl’s Diary
Sunday, October 25th, 2009From the desk of Karl October 25, 1924
I had an encounter with Security from Callahan Industries. I fought four guards and was able to defend myself with my .38, stopping three of them including one head shot. It is now clear to me that I need more firepower both in rate of fire and caliber effectiveness. To the gun store I go.
Hi readers, I have had the good fortune to be part of an ongoing Call of Cthulhu game. I realized that I needed to stack the odds in my investigator’s favor and started doing research on 1920’s small arms. By the late 1890s people were already experimenting with hollow points in rifles as a means of reducing bullet weight and increasing velocity. The also had the side effect of causing greater wounds.
By the 1920s it was not uncommon for hand loaders to create ammo that was faster and higher pressure than factory ammo for use in stronger, new production revolvers. These faster velocities combined with a hollow point bullet can increase the power level of the handgun with acceptable drawbacks. If your GM allows it, try adding this to your game.
Hollow point ammo: +2 to damage at close and point blank range, +1 to medium range. Increase the armor of your target by 50%. Revolvers only
Over pressure or +P ammo: +1 to damage, lower reliability rating by 5%
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