GLAIVE

I've made a very minor update of the GLAIVE system for detailed low-tech weapon design, to v2.1. It's a minor clean-up of writing, including friendlier compatibility with GURPS 4e. The end product is still GLAIVE for 3e, not 4e, but with the minor changes noted should play nicely with 4e. (Sorry for not being more ambitious, but I say there's no sense in undertaking a full reworking for 4e until we see what the coming GURPS Low-Tech will bring to the weapon design arena!)

(EDIT: Oops, title should be "...GLAIVE for 3e...", not "...4e...". Fixed.)

Ahoy! Many thanks to all those in the past who have contributed to or commented on GLAIVE, a low-tech weapon design system for GURPS 3e.

I recently received a couple of inquiries about updating the project for 4e, along with 4e-flavored updates for the spreadsheet aid originally created by Ryan Williams. An updated spreadsheet alone doesn't make the project fully 4e-ready, but sure goes a long way toward it!

The spreadsheets are posted for readers' benefit. Along with them come the obvious questions:

Is there a need to update all of GLAIVE for 4e? Is there any interest? What form would it even take?

There's a new forum topic for anyone interested in discussing.

What I did not see in the Weapon Designer rules which I would have like to have seen is some mention of dealing with weapon master bonuses. Currently 1/5 of Skill doesn’t really do anything once you get past size +3 or so.

You mean adding Skill/5 to damage? No, it's not mentioned in the Weapon Design System, but elsewhere in GULLIVER are notes that such absolute damage bonuses only scale properly when replaced with percentage bonuses. So if each Skill/5 added, say, 20% to damage, or if you used GULLIVER's suggestion for Karate damage bonuses (each skill level over 10 adds 10% damage), that would get the effect I think you are looking for.