Discussion of the GURPS RPG system
Thursday is GURPS-Day, and today Gaming Ballistic welcomes a guest poster, +Jake Bernstein. It’s not often that you get direct feedback from someone using something you’ve written. Mailanka gave it over on the SJG Forums when he decided to use The Last Gasp in a super-detailed samurai campaign, and +Peter V. Dell’Orto has mentioned a few times that…
+Peter V. Dell’Orto runs a pretty awesome “pickup” Dungeon Fantasy megadungeon campaign, called Felltower. His most recent play report was epic on several levels, not the least of which was, “hey, Dragon!” More broadly, though, the session was interesting from other perspectives than was was clearly the fun that was had. What did I notice? Research…
A while back, I posited that pretty good results can be obtained by assuming that the Vision bonus for “in plain sight,” that is, +10, applies fairly generically. Certainly it’s a good starting point to see what you can see. But what constitutes a basic roll? A Vision+10 roll for Joe Average will spot something man-sized…