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.

Does anyone know of any good hex based terrain that can be 3d printed? Most of what I see is grid based terrain for DnD.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FBEjA-nx9hc?feature=share

What you think about it? It is my first edit. i tried to mimic gurpsfederalagent`s battle reports
Should I continue?

I'm looking for a game in which the genre could be nearly anything at anytime, doesn't rely on funky dice, and maybe has a level of realism, but varies in complexity. Is anyone aware of some kind of generic, universal, role-playing system I should be looking into? I hope I'm in the right place. Sorry for my English, I'm American, so it's my only language. Big fan of Car Wars, by the way.

Like when you can parry any attack if you press right buttons in time, from kicks of beat-em-up mooks 3x your weight, to hammer swings, to fireballs, to 100 meter mech stomp, etc.

Hi! I'm interested in trying GURPS due to its promise of being able to use it for anything, because I think what I want to run is too specific to be found in a TTRPG with fixed rules.

I've been running D&D 5e for over 4 years, and lately I've been running it with so much third-party content to bring it in line with my vision that I feel it's time to simply change the game. There's a limit to how many homebrew systems can be introduced without them clashing or becoming a pain to manage.

I played Pathfinder 2e, Daggerheart, Mage: The Ascension 20th, Mörk Borg and Bluebeard's Bride; I narrated Vagabond and Into the Odd, and I'm about to start a campaign for Heart: The City Beneath. I also read the manuals for City of Mist, Chimera, and CAIN. Many of these games have things I like, but also aspects that I don't.

I read that with GURPS you can make any system you want, but I don't have the time to read all the books and figure out which mechanics to select. It would be great if you could advise me on which ones you think would be good in my situation.

What I'm looking for now is:

• Something that lets me create my own setting and includes advice on how to do it.

• Something where combat isn't just "I go and attack" over and over again, but rewards creativity and taking risks or at least have a good list of interesting maneuvers/weapon types/fighting styles.

• Something where social and narrative aspects carry some weight, perhaps with Bonds or Goals systems? I like it when the rules collaborate with and celebrate roleplay, And I also love narrative games, but I don't think they're what I'm looking for right now (at least in the aspect of combat).

• The two points above lead me to the fact that I really like Wound systems, or Hit Points AND Wounds; especially if there are different types of physical and mental traumas. For example, in Heart, if things go wrong you can accumulate stress in Blood (which would be your body), Mind, Echo (your soul), Equipment or Fortune, according to the circumstances.

• Good rules for downtime and, if possible, for things like exploration and travel. I'd like players to have the option to work, study, buy things, create mundane and magical objects, etc. For them to be able to really interact and affect the world!

• Probably what I'm most interested in: A magic system, more freeform (like with Mage: The Ascension or the Spheres of Power system for D&D 5e) instead of spell lists. I'm not sure if I want my world to be medieval fantasy or urban fantasy, or a mix of old and contemporary, like swords and guns coexisting.

My overall idea for the setting is that the players will be magic users but will also depend on their imagination, weapons, and equipment. To delve deeper into specific ideas: I have a very clear mental image of different types of arcane foci (orbs, wands, staves, etc.) providing different types of benefits to different types of magical effects/Doubling as weapons (like a wand-dagger or a scepter-morningstar), and of mages therefore carrying and having to change their arcane focus according to the situation.

As I said, I think an improvisational freeform magic system would be better, but I'm also drawn to the idea of characters discovering spells and rituals with specific effects.

So I just had a dumb idea to run a game where the players have a chance to become at least partially divine. So it got me thinking how could I represent this beginning of divinity?

So I'm working on making a vampire hunting wolfman. The goal is to have a character who has stakes they can throw, crossbows, holywater and some armor with a rather large gorget and inquistor hat.

The main thing I'm trying to figure out is how to make something like the Van Helsing crossbow but cheap, or having where they're just really good at using a crossbow. There is crossbow pistoler from Fantasy Dungeon: Theives, but is there anything for normal crossbows?

GURPS WWII. Amazing line. Love it. Hard to run, though. The game is so deadly… Tell me of your WWII games. Did you use the templates ? How many character points ? What were your games like ? Help me run it!