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.

Before that’s commented, I’m not looking for something that isn’t GURPS, I love the character creation and its impact on RP, I love how customizable it is, etc. My only hang up is how players from what I hear seem to instantly die. The cinematic rules recommend simply making the players more powerful but that’s not necessarily what I want to do either, as I also want certain enemies to last longer. Is the solution just increasing everyone’s HP? Any recommendations?

Running TL3 Fantasy

Hello, everyone! I'm currently working on a Power which would allow a character to Bleed a Healing Potion

I thought on building based on Creation but it states that the item should vanish away or not be permanent unless the user has Modular Points to pay? I'm unifamiliar with How It would work so I'd like either an explanation or alternatives

I also thought of both Cure and Snatch but don't know how to calculate the healing either so I'm kinda Lost

Could someone help me design such a Power?

Heard of the Low-Tech and Cutting-Edge Armor Design articles in Pyramid #3/52 & #3/85, but felt turned away by their circuitous maths?

Now is the time to pick those up; with my tool, using those rules to design your own armour is (almost) as easy as reading a published statblock.

Google Sheets link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kTbu9YzAldETOPB_L8BLGakrZw1cG_Cxb1w2_7IFZP0/edit?usp=sharing

(to use, go to File → Make a Copy)

SJGames Forum thread:

https://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=207159

(details, discussion, and future updates there!)

Working .xlsx file for offline programs coming soon some day!

This was very much a labour of love, and I'm proud to advertise it after a year in a half-released alpha; but the presentation still needs work and features need adding. I'll be sure to sacrifice my free time for whatever's in demand, so be sure to tell me what you think here and on the SJ Forums!

It seems contradictory, but would Callous and Empathy actually work together?

Callous characters can perceive others emotions, but don't care.

Empathy allows characters to better read a person's emotions, but still doesn't require them to care.

Most descriptions of Sociopaths suggest that they have both. No conscience or remorse with an ability to read others to better manipulate them.

Hi all, I posted this on the GURPS forum but wanted to post here too in case the audience is different. I'm trying to put together a magic system for a setting I'm developing. The idea as it stands right now is to have basically two different kinds of magic - slow methodical rituals, and fast but risky spells. My gut is telling me to use the effect-shaping variant of RPM for the rituals, and disallow the Adept advantage so casting times are always in minutes at least.

For the faster casting, I was thinking of using Threshold based RPM, but the article in Pyramid 3/66 advises against mixing effect shaping and energy gathering in the same setting, and threshold functions closer to energy gathering as far as I can tell.

However, I found an older post (wish I could find it again) where a reply mentioned doing something similar - effect shaping for most cases, but threshold for instant casting.

I also want threshold to be more area-based than personal, but not sure ow to implement it. If you're familiar with the Rogue Trader PC game, I'm going for that feel, where the area of encounter has a background Tally level, and once it exceeds threshold, bad things start happening for everyone.

As it stands now, my basic idea is to break these two types of magic into different core skills using RPM. Rituals use effect shaping RPM with Ritual Magic as the core skill, and no adept advantage to speed up casting. Fast spells use Thaumatology as the core skill and Threshold RPM. I guess my questions are as follows:

1) Does this setup seem feasible? Do I break anything by having threshold and effect shaping RPM in the same world?

2) If the two are incompatible, I'm open to ideas on how to handle this.

3) What might be a good way to have Threshold and Tally apply over an area instead of being tied to an individual?

Thanks in advance!