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.

I’m kind of liking the idea of Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying so that I have everything I need, racial templates, magic, gear, in just a couple of books.

Or I could go with the two core books, Magic, Low Tech, plus how many other books?

What do you guys consider to be your minimum set of books for a fantasy campaign?

Hi guys, pretty new to GURPS, i want my character to have the ability to conjure daggers out of shadows, how would i come to do that, please?

Say you've got a big area effect enhancement on an Affliction or attack that can hypothetically apply to many, many targets in the area. Is there a simple, elegant way to resolve rolls for a large number of targets, all of whom may or may not have wide variations in resistance stats (HT or ST or whatever)? Same question for inanimate objects & structures vs. area effect damage.

Presumably with inanimate "stuff", GM can simply ignore material or objects that have no narrative importance. A bunch of dirt gets kicked up, branches are aflame, and so on. But maybe it's important to know how many trees get knocked down, which drywall structures get blasted apart, etc.

Is the general approach to have a few "average" stats for a category of targets in the area? Roll for the highest stats of the toughest targets?

What is the most pleasing and less head-hurting technique for handling this at the table?

I ask in specific regards to the system itself. What worked the best with GURPS 4e? I’m coming from DnD and am potentially thinking of doing a one-shot with my group. I’d just like some insight into what setting worked really well for people, and how the GURPS system benefitted that setting in particular.

So I am poking Realm Management in a fit of madness, and running into the question if; is there any benefit to Realm Limitations? They reduce your Realm Value, but it seems like having a higher Realm Value is universally a good thing.

Got a player who wants his Super to be able to sense when people are lying to him, as well as detect crimes.

For the detect lies, in universe the words sound wrong to him. It'd be like;

"Look man! I'm telling you! I HAVE NO CLUE WHERE THE GIRLS ARE. Please don't hurt me!"

Meanwhile his ability to sense violent crimes comes from feeling the victim's fear. I want it to have a nuisance effect where he suffers nightmares since the ability works in his sleep (he agreed to this, more angst).

How do I go about building this?

I'd like to have a power with gadget limitation (a unique artifact my character owns). Is combining Cosmic (+50%), Can be Stolen (-10%) and Unique (-25%) for net -15% for the whole power modifier valid raw?