Made this table for a cheat sheet I'm working on for personal use. Curious if anyone knows of other rules that allow changing from one posture to another during combat that isn't covered here.

Specifically this version of the logo:

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I know in Tactical Shooting there's a rule for shooting with a shield, which turns out to be just unsighted shooting. Are there any other supplemental rules I can use for shooting while using shields, especially on the matter of reloading while using shields and using medium/large firearms with it?

(Note, this is a repost because the image was broken in my first attempt)

I love GURPS. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but for those who it appeals to, it's the best at what it does.

I've ran it enough times though, to have some complaints. If you don't want to read the whole box, it's a sidebar from Powers that says certain advantages may be so powerful that the GM should require PCs to buy an Unusual Background to be able to buy them. I think this is terrible design. If an ability is so strong that you need to tax the PC 50 points, then it should cost 50 more points!

Perfect balance is impossible. My complaint isn't that it's possible to build an overpowered character, it's that GURPS will cost levelled stats and advantages linearly and then say "Oh, by the way, don't buy too much of this, because that would be unfair." Increasing DX, Damage Reduction, Innate Attacks, or most things up from 3 to 4 costs the same as from 10 to 11, which costs the same as from 14 to 15. The power level of these things are not even close though.

The advantage of linear costs like this is that it's more simple. GURPS is already a complex game so I would be sympathetic to efforts to simplify things... Except GURPS has lots of things whose costs aren't linear. Skills giving diminishing returns is the big one, but enhancements like range, rate of fire, and Area Effect all have non-linear scaling. There's no reason attributes or damage reduction have to be linear.

It leads to boring characters too. If you play with experienced groups, you typically see 2 types of characters: High IQ and 1-3 levels of a bunch of IQ skills or high DX and 1-3 levels of a bunch of DX skills. It's so much less efficient to try to specialize, because skills give diminishing returns, but attributes don't.

My other big complaint is the inconsistency of what a "character point" is supposed to mean. The idea is that they're supposed to measure how usefull a character or ability will be on an adventure... Until you look at skills, and now it's supposed to represent how hard the ability would be to learn in reality. And then you look at equipment, which in some tech levels is more important than advantages, and now points are only the part of the character that is innate and not external.

Everyone always says "GURPS is a toolkit" so I should ask: does anyone have experience homebrewing point costs? Is there existing homebrew anywhere? Redoing point costs for the entire system would be a seriously daunting task. I do actually really like this system, it's only after running several campaigns that these issues become apparent.