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.

Are there any abilities/powers/traits from media that can't be replicated in GURPS?

How would you make such power on gurps? The idea is to give everyone around the Unluckiness disadvantage as long as it is turned on.

Also... is there any way to make activating the aura something you can do at will, but not deactivating it?

(srry for my english, I feel this post seems kinda hard to comprehend)

Can you do it? Is there any penalty to it?

How woud somone go about making their own power system as skill?

im not talking about using powers in conjunction with skills and techniques like in psionic powers book but rather setting up a new power system the way somthing like magic as skills or imbument is set up? is it just a game of eye balling everything, and what are some things somone can do to keep things from falling apart?

somone told me i should read thaumatology and i did but it really gave advice for modifying magery and though it did explalin you can make other systems work like rpm which is pretty popular i dont know if it really explained the ideas which formed it mechanically well enough for me to copy the thought process

important note the reason im asking how somone would do this is explicitly because the balance for powers is character points based where as in most cases the balance for skills is fatigue point based an allows for more with nless points thouhg its less internally consistent in my opinon, which is what im trying to remedy here

I have a little problem with building a Patron. It's for a character who is very precious as a "tool" for every big player in the main campaign setting (not counting another dimensions, which players will be able to go to). Politics, mafia, FBI/CIA, biggest corporations etc. Every big player (and a lot of smaller ones) had used him and usually is going to use him again in the future.

BUT the only thing they do is protecting him from the worst (no other aid - these I will buy as contact groups). And perhaps by the public knowledge that is someone try to eliminate him, the big players will be very angry. How to build something like that? Are there some Patronesque equivalents of Social Engineering Keeping in Contact?

Hello All,

In pathfinder when you start combat you are flat footed (lose your Dex to defense)until your turn. Is there an equivalent for that in gurps?

I added the modifiers I wanted to Insubstantiality and added reduced time 1 to make it instantaneous but at the power dodges description the dodge score is calculated as Basic Speed + 3 + Talent/2 what is this talent score isnt talent for skills insubstantiality is a trait can anyone explain this talent thing to me

I’ve been struggling to find GURPS 4e books for buildings, strongholds, etc. Rules for costs, time, personnel, and anything else that potentially applies. Ideally I’d like to find something akin to the Pathfinder 1e book “Ultimate Campaign”.