The following was based on a joke I made on Peter Dell’Orto’s blog Dungeon Fantastic about delvers bringing loot back from the dungeon. For Gaming Ballistic, I often had to deal with import/export items; my current Day Job at Tokyo Electron even more so. The HTS is the Giant List of Stuff used to say…
One of the smoothest upgrades in Mission X is how specialization works. Once you’ve bought at least one level in a skill (5 points), you can specialize for free. Pick one narrow aspect of the skill and get +1 to that task while all other uses of the skill are at –1. Most characters stop…
Mission X keeps the elegant GURPS idea that skills improve with investment but makes the math cleaner and faster. Every skill level costs a flat 5 points. The first level gives you skill modifier –2. The second level brings you to full attribute level (+0). Every level after that is a clean +1 modifier. Want…