Following up on a comment from Douglas Cole- Ballistic Leggings

Quite a while ago, Douglas Cole commented, wondering if ballistic leggings actually see any use.

Preparing for my Agents' fight that's to come in the next session, I decided to dig a litte.

Slate reported that James Holmes, the perpetrator of the Aurora movie theater shooting wore a fairly full set of body armor during the attack, including "ballistic leggings, a throat protector, a groin protector, and tactical gloves". Beyond that, google is a wasteland of advertisements for 'tactical' gear.

I think the jury is still out on whether they see any use within military organizations or not. I'll probably end up running with riot gear for the attackers.

That said, if anybody wants to shed light on the topic, I'm not the only one who would find it interesting to know!

An Introduction to Insidious GURPS Planning

Inspired by the likes of Douglas Cole at Gaming Ballistic and Peter V. Dell'Orto's Dungeon Fantastic, I've decided to begin chronicling my experiences as a I run a modern GURPS 4th edition campaign called Agency 17.

First, I must give credit to Sean Punch (also known as Kromm) whose campaign write-ups involving The Company really influenced me to begin running something set in the modern day. His session write ups are absolutely great, and I really enjoy reading them when they do come out. Kromm also provided some extremely useful templates for use making agents, which have been an invaluable resource.

I should also mention the fine folks over at Strolen's Citadel who have gladly read through multiple drafts, ideas, and concepts of mine in the past. I will likely sporadically post Agency 17 related material there under the alias Ted- that is me and no someone is not stealing my content to post on Strolen's Citadel.

And without much more further ado (except for some caffeine because I just woke up), I should begin explaining just what Agency 17 is in my next post.