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.

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I'm trying to put together two disadvantages, but I don't know how to mesh them together properly.

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I want to represent a cyborg who needs to eat as normal, but also needs to power his body with electricity.

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I feel like the best way to represent this is by giving the character Increased Consumption, doubling their sustenance requirements, but having it be under the effects of Restricted Diet.

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Should a limitation be added to restricted Diet to represent this, with a penalty to the Increased Consumption to compensate?

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I feel like a total value of this combination should be about -10 CP.

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What do you think?

Title explains the basics. I want to know what advantages/disadvantages/traits/whatever are required to have a character that literally embodies a concept in a physical way.

I’ve encountered a question regarding the damage modifier for an All-Out Attack Strong maneuver in combination with the minimum of 1 damage rule:

Is the +2 damage modifier applied before or after the weapons damage got rolled?
It actually makes a statistical difference if a weapon deals 1d-x damage.

Example:

A weapon with an unmodified 1d-2 damage would have

* a total damage range of 3-6 if the damage modifier is applied after the roll with a 50% chance of rolling the minimum (3).
* a total damage range of 1-6 if the damage modifier is applied before the actual damage roll, which yields to an even distribution of possible damage and a lower minimum damage (1).

In the regarding situation I ruled that the damage is applied after the roll to keep the game going, but I was unable to find a clear answer in the rulebook after the session.
So I would like to hear what you think or to point out the paragraph I‘ve missed.

Edit: meant Strong not Determined

So something odd came up in our Sunday game that I've never had to deal with and I'm curious how others would rule it.

We had a melee in a crowded area and one of the players did a move-and-attack to run around to attack the rear hex of an enemy. The enemy had a retreat available but the only retreat path took him to the side and moved the attacker from his rear-hex to the side.

At your table would the defender be dodging with the -4 for a run-around attack or a -2 for side orientation defense?

Hi! Gurps Martial arts has Commited Attack Option. It give you option to have 2 steps. But what if my character already has 11 basic speed and can have 2 steps? A committed attack would give him 3 steps? Second step gives -2 for the commited attack option. Would this -2 be given to this guy 2 steps anyway?

If Revised, is it backwards compatible to 4e?

So I'm gearing up to run Caravan to Ein Arris, and I'm going to make some pre-gens for my players. The Character Creation text box mentions useful skills, including Animal Handling.

Now the * text for it says that 'Animal Handling requires specialization: Camel, Equines, Oxen, and Cattle will all be necessary on this trip.' So I'm assuming that those are 4 different specializations?

But a few things, Oxen and Cattle are literally the same species, but are different specializations? Even when all Equines are just one specialization? That seems like an odd choice.

The Adventure seems to take great joy in pointing out throughout the adventure that Animal Handling rolls for Camels are at -4. So someone with Animal Handling (Camels) would get this penalty, right? And the default to Animal Handling within the same order is at -2 (though the example they use in the skill text is 'The default between specialties is -2 within the same order (e.g., Dogs to Big Cats),' so I'm not sure what they're counting as an 'order'), so someone with Animal Handling (Camels) would literally be better at Handling Horses than what they're specialized in? That also seems odd to me.

Am I reading this right? How have you handled this in your games?