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…

One of the first things you’ll notice when building a character in Mission X is how the skills have been distilled. GURPS Fourth Edition has hundreds of named skills — 240 or more, and up to 600 when counting specializations. Mission X reduces that to roughly 65–70 broad skills. Each one bundles related tasks into…

The Game Basics chapter lays the foundation for every character in Mission X, and it does so with selective precision. It is not trying to be the complete GURPS attribute and secondary characteristics handbook – for that, there’s GURPS Power-Ups: Alternate Attributes! What’s deliberately omitted from the core book’s Game Basics? Exotic or supernatural attribute…