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.

We're doing a martial arts game, and here's what I'm wanting to do:

My character is going to be a black belt in Chin Na, and the way I'm playing him is as a doctor who was trained in... Unusual circumstances by his master. To the point he doesn't realize he's a good martial artist and thinks he's actually just a mid doctor.

He also has the vow of Self Defense only, and what I kinda want to do is have some sort of mechanic where I can inflict penalties on reaction rolls. But I want to do it not in a "trash talk" kind of way but more a social bumbling accidentally insult the guy's entire bloodline kind of way.

I'm trying to think what I could do with existing skills/qualities to build something like this.

I haven’t seen anyone give a name to this fear, so I’m putting this name forward into the collective consciousness, mostly for my own sake.

This covers all you Transporter Paradoxes, your Soma robot mind uploads, and even video game-style respawning. If your character is terrified that teleporting, shapeshifting, resurrection, or mind uploading may just mean death of their current self, this is the phobia for you.

Phobia

See p. B148

Fear of losing one’s self (Autopseudophobia): You are afraid of any process that appears not to preserve the continuity of your physical body and consciousness, especially transportation methods that remove your physical body from your original location, such as Jumper and Warp, but also brain transplants, mind uploads, and possibly some forms of resurrection. -10 points.

I'm planning on making a stalker inspired frankenstine system of GURPS 4e, and I need help figuring out what skills from the list that I should cut. I know for sure I want to use the skill tree system, and that the trunks of Arts/Entertainment, Bureaucracy, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences are getting axed 100%.

But like... do I ned to keep Physician around? Or similar hyper-specific skills that just feel like too simulationist even for my tastes? I don't know what would break if I excluded them from the list. So I need some advice on what skills should be thrown out for a game focused more so on combat, survival, and social interaction.

Are there any talents in other books for zen archery or rather marksmanship? especially in terms of a character being more of a sniper.

I know I can build a talent off anything I want, but I'd rather use ones that exist in books.

So I am trying to make a cybernetic adv that is essentially a hidden syringe that can be filled with whatever poison that can discretly inject said poison without notice while touching the target. Any tips on how I could do this?

Does anyone know what the breakdown of the default for Spinning Attack (from Martial Arts) is? I've been trying to figure out what the spinning quick contest is worth, but I've been getting mixed results on my own calculations and am wondering if someone tried it already

I've begun working on a Thirty Years War era Monster Hunters campaign. The plan is to use the MH4 Sidekicks templates as the foundation for characters, modified for the era. Besides Swashbucklers and Low-Tech can anyone think of any other resources I should be looking at to pull this off? Is there a Pyramid article or something I may be missing?

I had the idea of doing a oneshot playing in a garden with the players taking the roles of various insects and spiders. I know this idea is by no means new and it was probably done a hundred times before, so I wanted to ask if anyone has some guidance for how to convert stats to the insect kingdom. I'm really not sure where to set the average and what margin there should be.

Some guideline will help no matter what continent it's made for but something for central Europe would be perfect. Thank you all in advance.