Guns and Grills
Its hard to get the wife and the kids interested in airsoft. Although, One idea that comes to mind is probably getting them to participate it as a Picnic. The…
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Low Tech Companion 3: Other Food Crops and Other Possibilities
In the lecture Origins of Civilization by Professor Scott MacEachern I learned that civilizations depended greatly in the time it takes to domesticate their primary food crop. In the examples…
Read more →How fatiguing are Skirmishes? Non-Grid-Mini Skirmishes aided by Mass Combat
I play airsoft and I’m very much aware of how far I am from what is considered “fit for military duty”. In RPGs, my Character is the Hero, not me…
Read more →CYMA CM.028 reviewed by Midwest Airsofters and my upgrade
Midwest Airsofters – The CYMA CM.028 AK-47 Examined My Upgrading of it had a lot of problems. Nothing, throwing money at the problem can’t handle (ouch ;_; ). SP120 Spring…
Read more →Got my Jing Gong HK416 (M4)
Pros: Good Quality Internals Inspection Metal bushings (Li-Poly Ready; The Later Models 2008-ish) Cons: The Butt Broke, anyway I hate that weird 3 prong battery. I’d rather get it Lipoly…
Read more →Swapping my MP44 for an HK416
Both guns are all metal and I rather like the Carbine over my MP44 which I have YET to use. Both my friend and I are very happy for the…
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2011-01-01
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Women in RPGs, my 2 bits
Attempting to take the empiricist point of view, I think that one has to break down the components and accurately describe the RPG experience, its people, and the personalities that…
Read more →Team Reputations
Teams Encountered and have a really bad reputation of cheating. I should put a 2 Polls up for known teams known for their Good and Bad Rep. Ideally first hand…
Read more →Some more Useful Biometrics, GURPS Increased Consumption Disadvantage
Looking at these numbers I think of GURPS increased consumption disadvantage at B136. since GURPs 3 meals defaults at the 2000cal. Note that there is an optional rule for 50%…
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2010-12-30
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Purpose of Realism in Games?
I think the purpose of realism depends heavily in what the game is trying to achieve, either a Puzzle or trying to create a Story. One of the most important…
Read more →Hope to have a trip to Lito’s
Lito’s has one of the best prices for the cost of a long trip to Quiapo and Php40 parking. Planning to get the Following. Have to call Lito if he’s…
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2010-12-28
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Is this getting around?
Is this just me or chrome or am I finding more of these malware common. Maybe I should be worried, given the increase readership and connectivity of gamer blogs some…
Read more →Small Type Tamiya, Projects for the Year, Wife’s Xmass Gift
I will be using small type tamiya. Because most of my guns use small type tamiya my batteries are mostly small type tamiya its smaller and does the job equally…
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2010-12-24
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Social Hierarchy is not the same as Levels
Social Status as Levels tend confuse gamers of how they really worked back then. The Social Rank does not confer any abilities or privileges, instead the Person or the Lord’s…
Read more →Poll and Byzantine History Podcast
I hope visitors would answer the poll. The eras aren’t specifically tied to their emperors or leaders. There are many points in the history of Byzantium that people of great…
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2010-12-22
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The battle of Towton: Nasty, brutish and not that short | The Economist
The battle of Towton: Nasty, brutish and not that short | The Economist: “The men whose skeletons were unearthed at Towton were a diverse lot. Their ages at time of…
Read more →JP SIG556 Php3.5k Filipino Airsoft (FAS) – Forum
For Sale: XMAS SALE!! JP SIG556 3.5k FREE SHIP! – Filipino Airsoft (FAS) – Forum here is the review. Which has all the relevant data. I plan to sell my…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Genealogy
This is the Sins of the Crusade Genealogy. Looking at the Game of Thrones Genealogies I think I have a lot of work ahead of me to populate it. Even…
Read more →Medieval Army Sizes Reflection
A player once proposed I use the most optimistic force numbers found in historical sources. This is a pretty big problem especially when there is a tendency for croniclers to…
Read more →[GURPS Mass Combat] “Real Soldiers Dig”
In one of the lectures I heard the term “Real Soldiers Dig”. The roman legionaires were said to build fort-camps every day of march. This made sense when you realize…
Read more →The Psychology of Shooters
The Psychology of Shooters Why shooting feels so good. by Jamie Madigan November 26, 2010 05:00 AM PT thanks to The Psychology of Video Games
Read more →Skills in Running a City
To simplify my Civic Stat system, I’ll just give a basic competence score that works with the GURPS skill system. Basically, each City, Province, Port, Fief, Pronoia has someone running…
Read more →The Sack of Constantinople 1204AD post Mortem
the Sack of Constantinople at 1204ad can be considered the end of the centralized and perpetuating bureaucratic organism that remained since the fall of Rome. The seizing of the most…
Read more →Reviewing: GURPS Low-Tech Companion 1: Philosophers and Kings
Who needs this – Very Meticulous GMs for a Political/Diplomatic Campaign World Builders in the tradition of Harn, Westeros, and near-realistic settings. Whats Important that you can’ get anywhere else…
Read more →Prep Work for Mass Combat Module
This is prep work that goes into a Mass Combat Module. Such a module should have a large Poster Sized Map with detail up to the location of villages. (Ideally…
Read more →Centralized Bureaucracy in Medieval War Campaigns
Centralized Bureaucracy. This is the wonder of the Byzantine Throne to the Crusader Lords. The ability to Tax their subjects and impose their will to the farthest holdings and the…
Read more →Behavioral Economics in Action – Overpriced 2nd Hand
The China Products – Filipino Airsoft (FAS) – Forum is a great place to see irrationalities in action. I’m still marveling at the bias where people over price the value…
Read more →Escalation when making Homebrew Rules
I was making my own homebrew rules for City Stats, designed particularly for Low Tech Mass Combat in GURPS and I experienced that escalation of objectives that tends to kill…
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2010-12-06
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Biometric Research: More “average” templates should be ST10 to ST11
Strength 10 in GURPS was derived from what is considered “Fit” for military service. Given the increasing sedentary professions found in the modern world what we consider as “fit” is…
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2010-12-04
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A good Horse website for Game Research
The horse com is a rich resource for game designers who want to model horses more realistically/accurately. Here is something useful for gamers from the article found in the title…
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