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.

Two notes:

1) A recent tech upgrade borked all links to ancient (static HTML) GURPS Diner material. Should be working again now.

2) The site's new graphic theme offers a lot more potential for content placement and other customizations than the previous one. But, yes, it needs some clean-up first. It looks very... busy. Will improve things.

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