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.

Of all the magic systems out there, the skill-based magic system seems to receive the most critique. Or stink-eye.

When I think of settings with magic, my brain defaults first to Sorcery or RPM, perhaps a possible side trip into the cool options in Thaumatology. Only then, when all the other options are exhausted, do I even bother looking at the skill-based magic system (I.e. Magic).

Perhaps I've been going at this the wrong way, though.

I'm sure that there must be a setting that screams for a fit with the skill-based magic system. What settings, otherworlds, or whatever you want to call them, out there are a great match for the much-lamented skill-based magic system?

Question is basically in the OP. We are going to play a Traveller Campaign in GURPS. I'm envisioning some sort of former space pirate/privateer (probably terran) who specialised in bladed melee weapons for combat because its a lot less likely to damage ship interior parts during a hostile boarding operation. Is that viable (as in, can do combat on a decent to good level) without extrem optimization or am i just going to play third fiddle to anyone using a proper gun, no matter what i do? And in case it IS viable, could you give me some pointers? We are only using the basic book + the traveller supplement.

Thanks in advance!