GURPS, 3rd Edition (Revised) by Steve Jackson

[james_davis_nicoll]

GURPS, 3rd Edition (Revised) by Steve Jackson

In which we examine TFT's (sufficiently different to avoid lawsuit) offspring, the Generic Universal Roleplaying System.

Comments

[roseembolism]

GURPS was the first game where the breakpoints between attributes and skills were so convoluted that I needed an early spreadsheet to make a character.

For example, I wanted to make a Grimjack style fighter detective, so I originally gave him a decent Intelligence. But then I realized that the Int-based detecting skills I wanted to give him were few enough that it made more sense to buy Int down and use part of the savings to increase the skills. But if I bought Int down too much, I'd hit the breakpoint of the skills, and their cost would increase.

And the thing is, one really really wanted to be as point efficient as possible, because there were so few characte points, and whew disadvantages were so bad....

[patrick_morris_miller]

I never gurped in anger, but it seemed to me that the way to cheese a character was to pick either DX or IQ, buy it at a near superhuman level, then put half a point into lots and lots of skills using that attribute. (To maximize your bang/buck ratio, try to steer clear of skills that default relative to each other.)

[jreynolds197]

That's how you get the best bang for your buck.

So you get a genius-level physician who's spent a couple of months actually studying the subject. Be afraid, be very afraid....