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.

Sorry if this is obvious. When moving in combat (for instance with the Move and Attack maneuver) is it possible to move partly before and partly after the attack? The M&A maneuver description seems to imply so, since it says that you move as with the Move maneuver and may attack “during or after your move.”

I've seen that in some cases you can do multiple maneuvers per turn but that makes the minimum increase +100%. So how would you handle some more gradual changes like +-20%?

I have an idea with adding to/subtracting from the initiative every round and then cycling it around making you do 2/0 turns in a round. But I'm not sure if it would break anything.

I’m planning on running on running another Shadowrun-like adventure using GURPS.

This time I try to stay as close as possible to the Basic Set (no additional supplements), for various reasons.

In addition, my players are more free to create their own bio- and cyberware-as-power (similar to magic-as-power).

For this I like to provide a Meta-Modifier for their choosen advantages, like the Meta-Traits for characters.

Here is my current Meta-Modifier for Cyberware:

* Breakable: 0+% (Variable)

* Can be stolen (Forcefully Removed): -10%

* Maintenance (1 Person, Monthly): -2%

* Electrical: -20%

* Susceptible (EMP, -1 to HT): -1%

* Unnatural Feature (-1 to Disguise&Shadowing): -1%

Sum: -34+%

And this is my current Meta-Modifier for Bioware:

* Dependency (Immunosuppressants, Monthly): -5%

* Unnatural Feature (-1 to Disguise&Shadowing): -1%

* Unusual Biochemistry: -5%

Sum: -11%

This means that a trait realised by bioware is more costly than by cyberware as the lore suggest. Where it makes sense negative effects stack if a character has multiple *wares (e.g. Unnatural Feature).

What do you think?

The GURPS character sheet seems very cool the only problem is if you want your stats to be called other things other than the generic Strength or IQ or whatever you can't seem to edit them to be something else. Anyone have a sheet GURPS or otherwise that you can do this?

Title, would someone taking a Wait maneuver to hit a high velocity target in melee be at a penalty?

Hi Im planning on running a campaign for ready player one setting, both real and virtual world. I have the basic set, magic, fantasy, ultratech, martial arts, powers I want to be as cinematic and power fantasy (in measure) as it can be, wgile maintaining all the crossover fun of the OASIS universe Is there any other book you recommend? My group usually doesnt read the passive skills so I was planing on making them copy and paste them on a word and having it open for their characters

I am currently working up a new gurps campaign for my players. It would have a RPM casting system - but while thinking about it, one thing bugged me. Namely, the Path of Undead appeared as very "off" to me. While all other elements - like mind, spirit, energy and so on - are elements of the natural world, undead appears to be a perversion.

Necromancy should be something possible to do with magic - but not as a default way of working with it. It just feels strange that the natural world order has included undead in it at the moment of creation if we assume a theistic origin (which is implied by the presence of angels and demons). The Sephiroth interpretation of the RPM system kinda makes this more blatant - Malkuth, "the Kingdom", the tenth Sephiroth, the one closest to Earth, being associated with undead? This feels weird.

So. What I did to fix it is to throw away the path of undead. Instead, I implemented a new path - the path of glamor or illusion. (Before, this was covered mostly by Energy, which is a very useful path anyway). I also rearranged the paths on the sephiroth a bit, but this doesn't really matter.

Undead summoning is now handled by a combination of the paths of Body and Spirit.

However, as undead now are a bit harder to summon than before, the common justification for necromancy - that its a shortcut - falls away. I fixed this via the following: Hidden Lore (Undead) or alternatively Occultism(Specialization:Undead Lore) is now a skill which can help you with casting undead rituals specifically. It is also relatively straightforward: as a first step of a ritual involving undead, you can make a single roll against this skill (perhaps with a penalty for more obscure types of undead). This is not an energy gathering roll in itself, but covered by all the same rules. Sucess lets you make all skill throws for this ritual at +1. Success by 5 or more gives you a +2. Critical sucess a +3. Failure gives the ritual a quirk. Critical failure immediately produces a failed ritual. This lets a person with abominable Thaumatology skills still be able to become a surprisingly dangerous necromancer.

This also allows you to introduce other types of "easy shortcut" magic into the setting, e.g. by way of making Demon Summoning even easier than it already is.