Found that table for shotgun ammo (from Stalker custom conversion rules), and left wondering.

The smaller pellets you have, the less distance and pellet damage does - that's understandable. Look at 12G №9 - it gives 1d-5 which is no point to roll at that point, it will be always 1 since you can't go less then that's. And by that for buckshots in conversion rules 0 DR act as 1 DR. Then what? No damage always?

RoF 1x791 gives you bonus +10 and with skill 15 you'll be able to hit with 22 pellets with no distance penaly.. But does it does damage as both pi- and armour multiplayer halves 1 damage?

Or you multiply it to 22 dmg before the dividers?

Off the mark by only 5 years, but somehow got the pandemic total death toll right. Writers knew /s

I made a previous post about wanting to redo GURPS Cyvberworld is a modern desktop publishing program, and that's still a goal. But I ran into an opportunity.

I ordered a copy of GURPS Cyberworld in the mail that got damaged in transit. The seller is sending me a new copy. So I asked them if I could buy the damaged copy to scan it in. We agreed on a very reasonable price and I went to town.

I pulled out my hairdryer and got the cover off. More hairdrying and I was able to separate the pages from each other without tearing a single page. Then I used my fingernail to pick off as much glue as possible off ther page edges.

Then the scanning began. I thought I would go through the software I used, since it might be of value to someone else that wants to digitize a book.

Years ago my wife got me an Epson Perfection V39 flatbed scanner. It has a kickstand on the back, so you can prop it up at a 45° angle. I used that scanner to scan both sides of the pages. I used an open source piece of software called NAPS2 to scan both sides of each page in black and white at 600 DPI. Then I exported all the files as PNGs to a project folder on my hard drive.

Then I used another piede of open source software called Scantailor Experimental to process the pages. Scantailor deskews, detects and centers content, and does some post processing on black and white images to try to enhance them. It has a ton of different enhancement filters to try. I had to manually fix a few pages, where the content detection didn't quite works as expected. But for a 129 page book, that only amounted to about 5 pages. Scantailor then exported as the pages as TIF images.

Last step was to scoop up the images into PDF Expert, the PDF editor I use on my Mac. IU used PDF expert to, combine all the images into a PDF, resize all the pages to 8½×11, and OCR the text. There are other tools that will do this, some of which are free. PDF Expert is just what I have on hand.

Last step, which is completely optional, was run it through an app called PDF Squeezer, which does some lossy compression on the PDF file to reduce it's size. I used light compression and got the file down from 150 MB to around 60 MB without any visible loss of quality to my eyes.

The entire process took me about 2½ hours.

And here is a sample page:

From the official Steve Jackson Games PDF:

https://preview.redd.it/ofekel8xeohg1.png?width=2484&format=png&auto=webp&s=bd53aa7f4eccd7aeca3dc5d9124a2d7fd9f5780d

My rescan:

https://preview.redd.it/pg33pa36fohg1.jpg?width=4699&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f37e718d2b4aa3a88b2c5deb847b4589897b383

I have some cleaning up to this morning. I flipped through the scan last night and found 2 pages that had the page number cropped off by content detection. And some of the tables with greyscale lines had the greyscale removed, so I need to look for a better filter for those pages. But other than that, it was pretty smooth sailing to get a good looking PDF.