One of the issues I’ve got with making characters in GURPS is the bonus points you get for Disads. Now, don’t get me wrong. For a point-based game, getting more points for being more limited than other characters is a fine design decision. In the point-based currency of character generation, you’re accepting more power when…
+Jason Packer over on Google+ threw down this gem: Assertion: The Evaluate maneuver is utterly useless if your skill exceeds that of your opponent, and is dubious at best if your skill exceeds 10. Wackiness ensued. In fact, it’s likely still ensuing. So, since a bunch of us on that thread were headed in…
A shout-out to all those visiting from the Daily Illuminator! September 14, 2013: GURPS On Gaming Ballistic Douglas Cole over at Gaming Ballistic has an extensive interview with Sean Punch, the line editor for GURPS. Among other things, they discuss GURPS‘ strengths, weaknesses, and quirks, compare and contrast it to other systems out there, talk about realism, and discuss the Rule of Awesome. It’s a…
My wife and I played our first game of Ogre ever tonight. This will be a very short play report, because my wife destroyed me so utterly and completely that, oh . . . wait. By the time you finished reading that first sentence, the game was already over. That bad? Pretty close. We set…
If you’re new to GURPS, or are sometimes frustrated or confused or find GURPS melee combat to be slow, +Peter V. Dell’Orto has some good advice for you. GURPS 101: Avoiding Combat Analysis-Paralysis in GURPS He nicely covers some options (and non-options) to keep things simple. It’s not even a false economy of simple. I’ve heard that while…
I led the post from yesterday with a quote from the movie Independence Day. That naturally got me thinking about the movie, which I really think is one of the better popcorn movies out there. It’s a classic example of the explosions and victory school of film-making. There are of course so many plot holes…