Can Your Games Save Your Life?

Who knows how many games you've bought, rescuing them from the dusty shelves of game stores the world over. But now, it's time for them to return the favor.

How many pages of gaming material will it take to save your life? To find out, Greg Porter of BTRC (Blacksburg Tactical Research Center)—a doughty little gaming company short on reknown but high on arms—decided to test out his personal arsenal on a few boxes worth of Gen Con 40th Anniversary guidebooks. Putting the 314 page convention guides through all manners of torture, Porter tests swords, axes, crossbows, rifles, shotguns, and a variety of other weapons on his collection all in the name of gaming science! He's since set down his findings in this free PDF, complete with pictures of the mayhem and his own witty commentary. Warning, don't look if you're a die-hard bibliophile or shocked by scenes of soft-bound brutality!

Hit the jump for one of BTRC's past ballistic tests using the Hero fifth edition rulebook as the victim below. Turns out that Hero is in fact not faster than a speeding bullet.