+Fred Brackin shoots and scores, I think, in this comment in a very, very, very, uselessly very long thread over on the SJG Forums: The core problem outside comparative expense of Allies who could the same thing and more is the comparative expense of just buying the Skill yourself. Buying that Contact with History-15 with Usually…
One thing that appeared in GURPS Martial Arts (by +Peter V. Dell’Orto and +Sean Punch ) is the concept of the tactics-based ‘reroll.’ Martial Arts, the Basic Set, Monster Hunters, Impulse Buys Found on p. 60, under the skill description for Tactics, it presents a few different ways Tactics can help you. There’s an abstract option where the leaders…
When I talked about scaling DR by Tech Level, or perhaps simply showing diminishing returns, I drew a comment by +Michael Wolf that brought up some new thoughts. There’s Nothing About Point-Buy That Isn’t Meta On the one hand, he called it too meta. I disagree with this characterization, because assigning point values to things is about as…