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 couldn't leave well enough alone, and I Clauded up a script that should, in theory, be able to hyperlink any GURPS PDF, not just the 4E Basic Set Revised. I tested it on High Tech and Space, and it seemed to work. I could only spot-check so many links.

The new script is called hyperlink_pdf_universal.py and is at the same location on GitHub:

https://github.com/plazman30/gurps_4e_revised_hyperlink

I included a batch processing option with recursion, so it can bulk process a directory full of PDFs, including ones that are in subdirectories.

You still need to set up Python. It is still a command-line tool. So, you need to get a little nerdy to do this.

I would like to make this something simple you just double-click on with a full GUI. But with the state of computer operating systems these days, it would cost me hundreds of dollars to buy developer licenses and get my code signed to avoid everyone seeing nasty security pop-ups. Just not in the budget for a little side project.

Again, if you find a link that doesn't work or links incorrectly, please open a GitHub issue and I will try to fix it.

How would you price a variant of Requires (Attribute) Roll where you need to make the roll each second to keep using the ability? My initial instinct was to double the modifier like Costs FP/HP does, but that doesn't line up with the considerably more limiting Requires Concentrate or Ready limitation, so I was hoping for some feedback.

Well, as done as it can be without mass testing.

It's up on GitHub here:

https://github.com/plazman30/gurps_4e_revised_hyperlink

The script requires python 3 and the pymupdf python plugin. You should be able to install python and then use pip to install pymupdf.

There are three scripts:

hyperlink_pdf.py - This will rip through the PDF and add hyperlinks to any page number references.

hyperlink_pdf_v2_chapters.py - This will rip through the PDF and add hyperlinks to any page number AND chapter references.

crop_to_center.py - This will crop and center each page in the PDF so you don't get that odd page shift because there is an inner and outer margin.

I still need to write up documentation for people less technically literate than myself. But if you know how to install python and add a module, please try it out.

Including the table of contents and the index in the back, there are over 5000 links in this PDF. It's impossible for me to test all of them. So, if you find one that's broken, please submit an issue on GitHub and I'll work on fixing it.

And a reminder. I did all of this using Anthropic's Claude. If you're morally opposed to LLMs, please do not use this script. It solves a problem for me. I hope it can solve a problem for you too.

Normally, I'd use my “super world based on my autism” setting, but right now I don't want to create a universe from scratch for a group of people I've just met (and even less so with people who are new in roleplay)

Could anyone recommend a setting for GURPS or GURPS Lite?

How would you make a spell in Magic as Powers which causes the caster to produce breast milk, which they can use to temporarily sustain their party when supplies are few?

This uses up their own nutrients and stuff though, just as it would if it happened naturally.

(Goodberry-type spell doesn't exist in the setting, so came up with a different idea that's a bit more balanced than it - and also fits better anyways)

If a PC makes a roll to fix a machine and fails, should he know that he failed before he even turns the machine on to give it a test run?

I purchased a copy of the new revised edition (digital) and I am wondering am I the only one that while glad they have tried to bring it into the current era I am just not wowing over it. I opened it and get that muuuhhh it’s ok feeling. I don’t feel I have wasted my money because I love the game and I am proud to support the team. I just don’t feel like I would recommend running out and buying it. Not to mention 50 dollars for a reformatted pdf really hurts my soul. I personally don’t like the two column style, well at least it doesn’t pop out to me when I look at it. Maybe I am bias but it just feels like putting lipstick on a pig but putting them back in the barn

Does anyone else have it. Please note I am super thankful to SJGames for the hard-work that has gone into this. I am just not feeling the WOW I was hoping to feel. Just my first impression I don’t hate it but I am not as excited to get a physical copy now

What are your thoughts?

So, I found a bunch of edge cases the process and script missed.

The original workflow was to run a script that Claude created to hyperlink the entire PDF file. Then I would go in and cleanup a bunch of stuff. I would remove all links to page numbers references to other books. I would some errors it made in the Index.

Then I would run a script that would export the location of all the links into a JSON file and then import them back into a clean copy of the SJG PDF.

That worked well, but had some significant manual efforts. Not a ton. Probably 100 edge-case links that needed manual cleanup.

So, I fired up Claude Code and worked on it catching the edge cases and fixing them so I didn't have to. 90 minutes into the process, Claude's script was able to catch all the links and fix them.

At that point, I had a hmm… moment. So, I asked the LLM if it could generate a script. knowing all it knows now to manipulate the PDF directly without needing to use a JSON lookup file. And sure enough, it coughed up a script for me which I spot checked against the PDF, and it seems to work as expected.

The advantages here are:

1. This will work unmodified on future updates of this PDF. We're at version 1.1. When 1.2 or 2.0 comes out, you should be able to run the script against those PDFs without needing to do any additional work.
2. This should work on ANY GURPS PDF. I'll be testing a few more PDFs tomorrow since I bought all the bundles of holding.

I was hoping to post this tonight, but the night got away from me working on this. We'll see what I can come up with tomorrow.

The only thing the script doesn't hyperlink is references to other chapter. Some parts of the book say "See Chapter 2." I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble to add that.

B-Movies are often ripe fodder for... inspiration.

What are some B Movies that have inspired your games?