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.

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(Here is an audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIWrJ-j-QjQ . It was written as scenario seed for a Lovecraftian RPG).

Modern works drawing on Greek mythology usually make Hades (completely wrong) or Kronos (a little more) the Big Bad, but they forget about Zeus’s greatest enemy – Typhon. After defeating the titans and then the gigants, the Olympian gods had to face the main boss on the way to dominating the world – Typhon. Here is an example of its description: It was larger than the largest mountains, its head touched the stars. When he stretched out his hands, one reached the eastern ends of the world and the other reached the western ends. Instead of fingers, he had a hundred dragon heads. From the waist down he had a tangle of vipers (yay, tentacles!) and wings at his shoulders. His eyes were shooting out flames. In other versions of the myth, Typhon was a flying, hundred-headed dragon. In any case – appearance and stature worthy of the Great Old One. Typhon attacked Olympus, and all the gods except Zeus fled in panic. The supreme god took up the fight… and lost it. Only in the second duel did he manage to defeat Typhon, but not kill him – he only imprisoned him, hitting him with a mountain which is known as Etna. And volcanic activity is the result of Typhon’s anger, trying to break free.

Typhon equaled the lord of heaven not only in strength, but in fertility. His wife was Echidna, about whom Hesiod wrote: „She also gave birth to another creature, invincible, huge, unlike neither men nor immortal gods, in a hollow cave – the divine violent Echidna, half a sharp-eyed young girl, with beautiful cheeks, half a huge snake, a great and powerful, spotted, cruel – in the depths of the holy land. This pair spawned many, if not most, of the monsters found in Greek mythology. Their offspring were very diverse and strange, as befits the spawn of enemies of the divine order, including:
– Ladon, the hundred-headed dragon who never slept and guarded the apples that gave immortality,

– Cerberus – we all know the dog guarding the gates of hell… but not all of us know that, according to some accounts, it had not three heads, but as many as 50, it was also covered with scales, and it had a snake for a tail… so what does this have to do with a dog?

– Scylla – this lady inherited the most from the human, beautiful part of Echidna… at least initially, but eventually, as a result of various perturbations, she turned from a beautiful nymph to something like her siblings, becoming a six-headed sea beast, so hideous, according to Homer, that even the gods could not stand sight of her – she dwelt in a cave, from where she opened her mouth to devour the crews of ships,

– Gorgons – I mean, those ladies with snake hair, not monstrous bulls. Medusa was one of them – the story that Athena turned her priestess into a monster as punishment for being raped by Poseidon is an invention of later poets,

– Lernaean Hydra – a multi-headed monster with many reptilian or human heads. In place of each severed head, two others grew, and in addition, the main head was completely immortal – therefore, after chopping off the mortal heads, Heracles had to burn the stumps and bury the immortal, still hissing head underground. Hydra’s breath was poisonous,

– various other creatures, such as the Sphinx, the dog Ortus, the Nemean Lion or the Chimera.
Each of these descendants has the potential to be portrayed as an Eldritch abomination in its own right. To be precise – according to some accounts, the father of these creatures (and Echidna herself) wasn’t Typhon, but a monstrous, ancient (older than Poseidon) sea god, Phorcys.

How to use Typhon? Well, Typhon clearly has the potential to be a Great Old One, imprisoned by… Nodens? Some other Elder God? Weak gods of humanity? Maybe his cult is trying to free him from Etna? What if he succeeds? What might distinguish Typhon from many other Great Old Ones? I would recommend focusing on his monster progenitor aspect – if he manages to reunite with Echidna, they will immediately start spawning various blasphemous beasts in series.

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I have a rules question. Can this spell turn someone into a statue of gold? To clarify, I am not asking if you would personally allow a player to do this, I am asking if it "can" do this.

Flesh to Stone

Regular; Resisted by HT

“Petrifies” a living subject (and all his gear!), turning him to stone. Must affect the entire subject.

Duration: Instantaneous, unless reversed by Stone to Flesh.

Cost: 10. For double cost, a subject may be turned into a metallic statue.

Time to cast: 2 seconds.

Prerequisite: Earth to Stone.

Item Staff or wand. Usable only by mages. Energy cost to create: 1,000. The item must touch the victim for the spell to work.

I'm a veteran gamer (including Hero/Champions) but am new to GURPS. I'm working on a couple of mechanics for a historical fantasy setting based on Iron Age Scandinavia in 780 AD, where every element of Norse cosmology and folklore happens to be true. I'm hoping more experienced GMs and players can help me.

Since it's my first time, the baseline is that most characters are skilled mundanes. There are two exceptions.

1. Some characters have access to a galdr/rune mechanic by which their recitations, in conjunction with carved runes, can cause a few simple buff/debuff effects like raising an ally's strength, causing fear in enemies, conjuring a mild favorable wind, and so on.

The powers do not require Magery, Power Investiture, or analogs. They do require use of either the Singing or Public Speaking skill (haven't decided), along with access to carved rune talismans. However, these talismans can be carved on inexpensive materials like wood or bone, effectively requiring only a relatively short amount of time to replace (e.g., a day) rather than counting as true "gear."

I want to keep it simple -- pretty small pool of potential Powers, none complex in effect, each requiring a Skill Roll and a cheap item.

I'm trying to figure out appropriate limitations and percentages for each of these spells. Given the limitations "requires Skill Roll" and "requires runic talismans," what might be appropriate limitation percentages (e.g., -20%, -40%)?

1. True "berserkers" take the Berserk disadvantage, but have additional traits that apply only when berserk. They might get increased Strength, a low level of Damage Resistance, some levels of Fearlessness, High Pain Threshold, and so on. Given the limitation "only while Berserk," what might be an appropriate limitation percentage?

I don't want to go crazy with special mechanics my first time with this specific system, but I do want these two options.

Thank you so much for any help!

EDIT: formatting

Hello, I'm looking into swapping one of my games into Gurps, and one of my players had some homebrew where they could steal the abilities of others, basically. I'm looking into how to do this, and the Power Theft enhancement of Neutralize seems to fit, however, I'm not sure what a suitable cost would be for a limitation that removes the Neutralize part of the advantage, if it should be a limitation on the advantage or on the enhancement, or if I should just make a new trait entirely. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Edit: Also, they should currently only be able to steal the powers of one person at a time!

I want to run a Campaign reminiscent of Tom Clancy games or SWAT (TV Show by Shemar Moore), but I’m struggling to make a map. I know GUTPS uses Hex, but all the maps and resource I find relate to scales to large (cities and surrounding countries). I know Grid would work better, but sources say things break to that conversion.

What are some solutions I can use? I plan on using 4th edition with High-Tech, SWAT, Tactical Shooting, SEAL’s in Vietnam, and possibly Martial Arts.

This is also my first time using this system

• GM based in Mountain Time Zone
• Sessions planned weekly on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 PM not set in stone and negotiable
• Hoping to start this game by June but no hard start date until a party is organized
• Power level at 75 pints (25 point disadvantage)
• Wilderness survival followed by civilization building
• TL will start at 0 but inventing TL 1 and then 2 is possible
• Books that will be used: Basic, Low-Tech, Magic
• Books that could be used: Bio-tech
• Voice chat over discord, played in Foundry
• Comment or PM me with interest
• Party size: 4-5 players

It happened in a flash. Large portals covered the earth and swallowed up many clans. One of whom was your own. You and your people are now in a strange new land. The air is thicker, the weather is much warmer and gigantic lizards and bugs roam the earth in huge numbers.

The first half of this game will be a survival game where humans must quickly adapt to an alien and hostile ecosystem. Your PCs will be Neolithic humans in 7000s BC when humanity was starting to transition from hunter gatherer societies to pastoral. At game start, your PCs will be capable but mundane early humans. It will be possible to learn magic throughout the game but it will be slow moving and rudimentary. Your job will be to locate as many survivors as possible and try to settle into a sustainable community.

The second half will be building a new civilization from the ground up. There will be rival tribes and the domestication of various animals will be possible. From here the party's goals are fairly open ended. The game will technically be set in the cretaceous but thanks to the portal storms, I will incorporate plants and fauna from any point in Earth's history from the carboniferous to the Jurassic. I'll level in that I'm relatively new to dming Gurps and so players with some background knowledge of Gurps would be appreciated. That should about cover it.

I would like to make a character that uses magic to strengthen their combat powers. Like increasing punches' damage, for example, or increasing jump distance.

The control body school in the GURPS Magic book seems to be more focused on controlling other people's bodies. I didn't find much about improving the person's own body. Is there a source for that you can point me to?