Mission X keeps only the cultural and linguistic rules that matter in modern-action and sci-fi games – and makes them fast and useful. Every IQ 6+ character gets one Native language and one culture for free. Additional languages use clean comprehension levels (Native / Accented / Broken / None) with separate costs for spoken, written,…
Combat in Mission X, as a Powered by GURPS game, relies heavily on secondary attributes. These too have been tweaked. I’d like to say I followed some of the thoughts that Sean wrote down in Power-Ups 9: Alternate Attributes. That would be pushing the truth a bit, but since he’s a thorough thinker, much of…
A break from the systematic exploration of the character book! In honor of July 4, here’s a preview of one of the more table-flip inducing elements of the detailed combat rules in the core book, and how they’ve been changed for Mission X. Nothing says Independence Day like the sky cracking open with fireworks, the…