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.

We met, fellow adventurers and game-masters. Some questions for you from a minstrel who's fallen on hard times and plans to sell lute and cape to instead don robes and vow loyalty to the powers above in order to keep roof over head and food on the table. Or, in other words, I'd like your views, opinions and clarifications regarding the PACT limitation, if you'd be so kind. Google's AI, unfortunately, answers my questions 'yes' one day then 'no' the next.

So, my bard-type character never quite made the 'a' list. I'm now going to try a priest-type character (technically a Mage) to be built with 100 points. As a 100-point character, he may have half that amount in disadvantages (i.e. -50 points). That's 45 points in formal disadvantages and 5 points in quirks. I'm going to assign all 50 points of those disadvantages (including the quirks) as Vows, since Pact only applies to self-imposed mental disadvantages, and I'd like to apply the Pact to every vow, including the quirks, for a -50% limitation to my advantages. Is this all allowed? I've heard some say quirks don't count against the disadvantage limit. I've heard some say quirks don't even count as disadvantages. And I've heard some say quirks can't be used as part of the Pact limitation (because they're not true disadvantages). I've read arguments on both sides, and ai can't seem to make up its mind.

I'm inclined to believe quirks 'are' disadvantages because they have a negative point-cost and either impose a minor behavioral requirement or a minor penalty. And because of that, assuming they're assigned as Vows, 'are' useable as part of a Pact, albeit with a very small added limitation (-%1 each).

I appreciate your replies!

I added another script to the repo. For those of you who want to combine your Characters and Campaigns book into one PDF, I added another script that does:

1. Merges the two book together
2. Moves the Campaigns Table of Contents right behind the Character Table of Contents.
3. Sticks the Campaigns Cover right behind the Characters cover
4. Moves the Characters and Campaigns back covers to the end of the file.
5. Deletes the Index from the back of Characters, but leaves it at the back of Campaigns, since they're both the exactly the same.
6. With an optional command-line parameter, hyperlinks the entire book.

Same GitHUb repo. Script is combine_books.py. All it's logic assumes you have the latest and greatest versions of the PDFs. In theory it should work with older copies of the PDFs, but I have no way to test that.

I noticed the two books reference each other all over the place, so I thought, why not combine the two together into one PDF? That way all hyperlinks would work. And 2 PDFs aren't any thicker than one PDF.

Please test and let me know if you find any issues.

Hi! So I'm considering running a game set in Golarion. One of the aspects of the setting is that there is a crashed spaceship which has some badly damaged by functional technology that breaks down frequently. So question is how would I represent this? For guns easy if someone uses a high tech gun it has a punishing malfunction score (like 13 or 12) but how about melee weapons, armor and non combat equipment? Any tips on how to showcase that these are century old devices that need constant repairs to work?

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.

So am use to either telling my players on other systems when they level up, of course thats not as double when it comes to gurps due to the point system.

I have found two great combat and injusry cheet sheets so am curiose if you guy know any good cheat sheets for allocating points.

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?