If you’ve ever looked at the Size and Speed/Range Table in GURPS and appreciated how cleanly it can be used to scale an entire game world, Mission X takes that same elegant and useful progression and applies it directly to damage, armor, and a lot of other things. It embraces the notion that the Size…

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…