This is a monthly r/GURPS thread for anything and everything related to your own campaigns. Tell us how you and your friends are making out. Update us on the progress of your game. Tell us about any issues you've run into and maybe we can help. Make suggestions for other players and GMs.

This is a monthly r/GURPS thread for anything and everything related to your own campaigns. Tell us how you and your friends are making out. Update us on the progress of your game. Tell us about any issues you've run into and maybe we can help. Make suggestions for other players and GMs.

Long time TTRPG GM and player, first time GURPS researcher. GURPS is a noteworthy blind spot in my TTRPG history, and I want to change that.

I have a few questions for those of you who have been at GURPS for a while:

• Is the latest edition, fourth, the best edition to play?
• Can I reasonably expect that the Basic Set Characters and Campaigns books, an addition to a specific setting book, will provide me with everything I need to run a successful GURPS game?
• Speaking of settings, I want to run a Low Tech game. Beyond the Low Tech book itself, are there any other supplemental GURPS materials that you recommend I leverage in order to build my game?

Any other advice you have, that I didn’t think to ask for, would be greatly appreciated.

the idea is someone being able to extend their actual hand across a distance. I know stretching exists with the force thing or whatever, but what I want is like, there's no arm between the hand and the body. the hand can still be harmed though, cause it's their actual hand.

the flavor is that they're putting their hand through a portal to cross a distance with just their hand, so yeah.

You, like I, love GURPS.

You have created a setting, poured the sweat into it,and feel others would love it, too. Maybe it's good enough to publish, you think to yourself.

But it's GURPS. There's no chance that your going to be able to do that. So you look for an open system that you could convert the setting to, but using the work that you have done.

What system do you choose, and why?

Had anyone have the same issue?

Got an email from them telling me that my account was not approved because of :

• A honkingly obvious falsification of data. Feel free to try again with real information.
• Failure of parent or guardian to send approval info when the person registering is under 13. All you can do is ask them again nicely, and reregister after they have agreed to approve you. Or wait until you're 13 . .

I used a regular email and I dont get where they get the idea I am not 13 years old...

Is it a know issue?

Armor Penetration Enhancements Table

An enhancement that makes an attack ignore DR is worth +300%.

Arcing Surge +100% reduces all conductive metal armor to DR 1 and includes the effects of Surge +20%, so an enhancement that just reduces conductive metal armor to DR 1 (perhaps appropriate for some kind of para-energy attack) is worth +80%.

"Conductive Metal" is an Occasional subset of "Metal", which is itself a Common subset of "Physical", which is itself a Very Common subset of "Everything". We can infer that if Ignores All DR Types is worth +300%, Ignores Very Common DR Types is probably worth +240%, Ignores Common DR Types is worth +180%, Ignores Occasional DR Types is worth +120%, and Ignores Rare DR Types is worth +60%. (We're just applying the Limited limitation to the enhancement).

We can also infer that Ignores all but one DR is probably worth 2/3rds as much as Ignores all DR, because that's the ratio between 80 (the known value for Ignores all but one Occasional DR) and 120 (the inferred value for Ignores all Occasional DR).

Therefore, we can make the above table.

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So, an enhancement like Ignores all but 1 Physical DR is probably worth +160%, or Ignores all but Internal DR is probably +240%, Ignores all but 1 Metal DR is probably +120%, Ignores all worn DR is probably +240%, etc., etc.

Can you parry from any facing?

I know with the shield you can only block from the side you shield is to the front.