Discussion of the GURPS RPG system
This was a bit of off-the-cuff, but I wonder if there should be a few more uses for Tactics, or the re-rolls granted by virtue of a successful Tactics contest, in GURPS. Tactics seems like it should do more, to me, anyway. Things like: Make a Tactics roll to get the benefit of partial cover…
I’m blog-stalking +Peter V. Dell’Orto these days. You should too. He’s penned a few posts on mapless combat for GURPS that got me thinking, again, of borrowing concepts from other games. In this case, the concept of Zones from Fate. Zones are a nice, abstract way of thinking about who’s where in a narrative game. You can fight…
+Christopher R. Rice laid down a post about using random initiative in GURPS that turned into both an interesting “GURPS 201” post (small house rules based only on the Basic Set) as well as a thought experiment. Some notes: GURPS combat is based on a fixed turn order. Mess with this at your peril, perhaps. GURPS combat…