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…

Mission X prioritizes genre fidelity in combat. As they do in the real world, firearms dominate at range. A trained operator can deliver accurate, high-powered shots across the room or down the street with far less physical effort and training time than mastering a longbow or melee weapon. Throw on a suppressor, and they’re pretty…