Action Movie Physics

As teased in this post, the Action Movie Physics RPG is published and available for purchase at RPGNow and DriveThroughRPG!  Please use those links; they have my affiliate ID on them and that gets me a little percentage of each purchase.

Only $14.99! 

My main contribution to this book was bringing my knowledge of firearms and firearm accessories to the game. I don't claim to be an expert, but I knew more about guns than anyone else in the development group, and most importantly I spoke both languages (role-playing game mechanics and firearm details).

There are, of course, going to be things to quibble about, the most obvious is that of Rate of Fire. What you need to keep in mind is that per these rules, PCs can only shoot a maximum of three times per round (each round is 5 seconds), so I went with the Hollywood-ism that semi-autos shoot more quickly than revolvers. I adjusted for this by having revolvers be more reliable. For full-auto guns, I derived the ammo spent via burst fire by dividing the cyclic rate by 60 to get a 1-second trigger squeeze. It's a rough approximation, but I think it works.

Magazines are another issue; I know there are all sorts of wacky things out there, like 100-round Beta-C drums. I decided to go with what was most common, deferring to military standard if possible.

So in short, I know it won't be perfect. There's no way to perfectly model real life in a game, mainly because real life has too many variables to account for. My main goals were to ensure that the firearms rules were fun and playable and didn't set off the BS detectors of gun owners. I hope I succeeded in that respect.

There's already a Facebook discussion group for AMP. Buy the game, join the group, and tell us what you think! If there's demand I'll probably be asked to contribute more to future supplements, like Old West or Roaring 20s or a Military sourcebook.

How to Donate to Operation Blazing Sword

I have lost track of how many times someone has said "I want to donate to you, but I don't know how" or "You sell t-shirts? I had no idea!" To that end I have created a note on the OBS Facebook page, aptly titled How You Can Support Us, which details all the ways that you help us achieve our mission of teaching gun safety and operation to those who want to learn but aren't comfortable seeking conventional training.

The fact of the matter is that Operation Blazing Sword needs money to continue. We don't have a rich New York billionaire backing us, nor do we receiving funding from firearm manufacturers or the NRA. We get by with donations from people like you.

If every one of our 1,500+ volunteers across the USA donated $10 -- roughly the cost of a movie ticket -- then we would have FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. Can you imagine what we could do with that kind of money?

I can. And that's why I'm asking you to please donate to Operation Blazing Sword.

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT US

• SHOP VIA OUR AMAZON LINK: We are a registered charity with Amazon Smile. It costs you absolutely nothing to use our link, and we receive a percentage of your purchases as a donation. Here’s the full URL if you want to copy and paste it into a bookmark: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/81-4230880
• SELL FOR CHARITY ON eBAY: If you’re a seller on eBay, you can help raise money by selecting a percentage of your proceeds to go to us. Here is our eBay For Charity page. 
• SUPPORT US ON HUMBLE BUNDLE: If you buy from Humble Bundle, please select us as the charity you support. Here’s a link to a great cybersecurity deal!
• BUY OUR MERCHANDISE: We have an online store where you can buy Operation Blazing Sword branded t-shirts, stickers, mugs, and more!
• DONATE ONLINE: We are a PayPal confirmed charity. Donate online here.
• MAIL A CHECK: Make it out to Operation Blazing Sword and mail it to 800 Belle Terre Parkway Suite 200-302, Palm Coast, FL 32164.
• EMPLOYER DONATION MATCHING: Many employers will match their employees’ charitable donations via paycheck deductions. Operation Blazing Sword is registered with both Benevity and GuideStar. If your company uses a different organization to distribute charitable giving, let us know and we will register with them!
• TEACH SOMEONE HOW TO SHOOT: We are a 501c3 tax-deductible charity (our EIN is 81-4230880) and any expenses you incur (range fees, equipment rental, cost of ammunition, etc) teaching someone who has contacted you through our organization are considered a donation. Per Treas Reg 1.170A-13(f): 
• Generally, if a donor makes multiple contributions during the year, each of which is less than $250, no substantiation form is necessary. Nevertheless, the donor must observe the minimum recordkeeping requirements, such as retaining canceled checks or simple contributions. 
• Donors who incur out-of-pocket expenses of $250 or more when rendering services to a charitable organization and intend to deduct these expenses must also obtain written acknowledgement from the organization. The acknowledgment for expenses incurred need only describe the services provided by the donor and the value of good services provided in return (or a statement that none were provided); it need not include the date of the services. 
• To obtain written acknowledgement from us, scan or photograph your receipts and email them to erin@blazingsword.org.

Traveller Tuesday: Alespron Subsector

Alespron Subsector, the Traveller sourcebook product I helped write (and talked about last month), is now available for purchase!

• What caused the fall of the Torres Monarchy?
• Are the Zhodani truly there to restore order, as they claim -- or is it all an excuse to expand their territory?
• How much money can be made smuggling weapons in Majesty, and is it worth the risk?
• People go to Valhalla and never leave. What is its sinister secret?
• Are the reports of impending genocide upon Prince Varenz truth? or just media hyperbole?
• And what caused the Droyne of Othyabis to declare all humans unwelcome in their system, turning away refugees at gunpoint?

All these questions, and more, are answered in Foreven Worlds: Alespron Subsector, available at at DriveThruRPG and RPGNow.

Buying through those links gets me a little something back through the affiliate program, and of course if it sells well it increases the odds that I will be hired to write more gaming stuff.

Once again, I invoke Hot Goth-Girl Beseeching Action with a +5 Vinyl Straitjacket of Beseechment as I ask you, my dear readers, to please buy what I have written.

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Petty Gods: No Longer Vaporware

Petty Gods Revised & Expanded Edition is a 396-page extravaganza of Old School goodness.

Expanded Petty Gods Compendium provides Old School referees with a slew of new, weird minor deities and godlings, for use in rounding out their campaigns. This book includes information for 327 petty gods, 116 minions, knights & servitors, 12 cults, dozens of divine items & new spells, plus a host of other petty-god-related gaming material!

I'm proud to say that I've left grubby fingerprints in this book. Not only does it contain Rasoob, the once-great God of Bronze (since eclipsed by gods of iron and steel), it also has within its august pages the magnificent countenance of Manidono, the Slacker God.

All of this can be had for the princely sum of FREE if you get the PDF from RPGNow. Alternately, you can get it in softcover for $13.22 or hardcover for $22.47.  (The prices are weird because all this is at cost -- no one is getting paid for this as it's our gift to the gaming community.)

Thanks and gratitude go to Greg Gorgonmilk and Richard LeBlanc, without whom none of this would have happened. They rescued the Petty Gods manuscript from limbo and turned it into a magnificent magnum opus of D&D geekery. 

And I'm the person who contributed the deific equivalent of a Flumph to the mix. 

Pellatarrum in Print!

The first installment of Pellatarrum is now in print (well, e-print, really) and is looking quite pretty within the covers of Unicorn Rampant Publishing's Claw/Claw/Bite Magazine issue #18.

I beseech all of you, with hot goth-girl beseeching action!, to buy a copy. This will make money for the publisher, who will then use that money to pay me to write more articles, and so on. This creates what I like to call a "virtuous circle" which ultimately ends up with me writing a full and complete campaign setting and you, my dear readers, having a full and complete campaign setting in your hot little hands.

There's also cool and usable stuff for both 3.5e/Pathfinder and 4e. So buy it for Pellatarrum, get other cool things as well! It's a win-win!

See this? She is totally beseeching you to buy CCB 18.