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…
Mission X introduces the “B-scale” logarithmic damage system. The “B” stands for Basic – it’s the same clean progression every GURPS player already knows and loves from the Size and Speed/Range Table. +1B ≈ ×1.5 incapacitation potential. +6B = exactly ×10. It presents one elegant scale – one GURPS veterans are intimately familiar with –…