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.

This is going to get nerdy, so bear with me.

I've spent the last 2 days adding hyperlinks to the GURPS 4E Revised PDF so that all the page number references are now hyperlinks that will take you to that page in the PDF.

Full disclosure – I did this with the help of the Claude LLM. There were close to **THREE THOUSAND** page references, so doing it by hand was not a job I could undertake. But it's something I wanted. I did some by hand, and spent a lot of time cleaning up what the LLM did for me until I got to a point where I think 100% of the hyperlinks work properly now.

A hyperlinked PDF is something I woule love to share with the community, but the PDF is obviously copyrighted, so I can't just put it up somewhere without violating US copyright law and impacting SJG bottom line.

But luckily, PDF is well known format and you can manipulate them using scripts. So, with the help of Claude, I found a way to make this a DIY project.

I spent a lot of time manually cleaning up page references that pointed to another book, and fixing page references the LLM chose not to hyperlink for some reason.

I have a JSON lookup table that lists all the pages that need hyperlinks and the text that needs to get hyperlink. Sometimes the lookup text will just be (p. 22) and sometimes the text will contain a word or two prior to the page number if the same page number is mentioned more than once on the page. So the lookup table may have see Animal Empathy (P. xxx) I spent a lot of time manually cleaning up page references that pointed to another book, and fixing page references the LLM chose not to hyperlink for some reason. As far as I can tell, the JSON is complete and it doesn't contain enough text to be a copyright violation.

The JSON completely skips the Table of Contents (since it's already hyperlinked) and it completely skips the top of Page 1 (Unification), since that talks about how the book got organized, and it's reference to page numbers is not relavent to the rules.

So, using an LLM generated script, the JSON file and your legally obtained PDF from Steve Jackson Games, you can use the script to hyperlink it.

So my question is, is there interest in this script to make your legal PDF hyperlinked, or am I going to get a bunch of "take your AI slop and go elsewhere" messages? I don't want to share this if it's just going to lead a constant stream of negative Karma and negative comments.

The script tells me there are 2,847 page references in the book, not including the table of contents. If SJG had hyperlinked this by hand in Adobe InDesign that would have been a massive amount of work.

Some notes about the script:

• This will only work on verson 1.1 of the PDF, which is the current version as of the day of this post. If a new version comes out, I'd need to test it to see if any text got moved around. But testing 2847 page references to see if anything broke is a massive effort. So, don't expect a quick turnaround on any future PDF updates from SJG
• I'm pretty sure I am not violating SJG copyright here, but IANAL. I don't think 2 word snippets linked to a page number inside a JSON file is a copyright violation.
• The script completely ignores ther Table of Contents, since that's already hyperlinked.
• Any page number references to an external book have been cleaned up and removed. So, if you click on a page number and it goes nowhere check the text in front of it to make sure it doesn't name another book.
• You need to be pretty geeky to run this thing. You need to install python and install the PyMuPDF module for it. I'm on a Mac and can probabaly write some Mac-specific documentation. But I don't have a Windows machine, so I can't write Windows documentation.
• I might be able to provide some support for Mac users. But I would need support to be a crowdsourced effort for Windows users.
• I would LOVE bug reports of links that are missing and not working.

So, let me know if you're interested in seeing this thing.

A player I am helping build a caster for a campaign using the Sorcery rules (idk if that matters here). And they wanted a power like Frieren, who can conceal her mana levels from people who could scan for that. I was wondering two things; 1) how to do that and 2) is it actually worth the effort?

My best bet was Invisibility for Detect but that sounds weird

As it says on the tin, for the 4th edition of GURPS, what books/suppliments would be recommended to grab, outside of the core books of course?

OK, this obviously some kind of inner OCD talking here. So bear with me.

I got the PDF today for 4E Revised from the Ring of Fire Kickstarter. Monumental effort on the part of SJG.

But there is a difference between a PDF you generate to send to a printer, and one you read on a tablet/computer.

These PDFs have an "inner" and "outer" margin, which is expected to account for the binding in a hardback book. But, when viewed on a tablet, it shifts the content of the page to the left on the left pages and to the right on right pages. I think it looks better to have the content dead-center on the screen on all pages. When I turn pages and see the content shift a little left of right from the previous page, it messes with my world a little.

Recently made two guns for a friend using the Gun Stats book, and I thought I would share them. The RSh-12 is the "Requium" from RE9. Both of these fire from the lower chamber in the cylinder, and in order to represent this lowering of recoil, I treat it as having an aggressive muzzle break. If this doesn't appeal to you, then the Mateba has a recoil of 4 and a ST of 13, while the RSh-12 has a recoil of 7 and a ST of 15.

Guns (Pistol)

TL | Dmg | Acc | Range | Weight | RoF | Shots | Bulk | Rcl | ST | Cost | LC | Notes

Mateba, .454 Casull | 8 | 5d-1 pi+ | 2 | 270/2970 | 3.6/0.4 | 3 | 6(3i) | -2 | 3 | 11 | $1000 | 3 | None

RSh-12, 12.7×55mm STs-130 | 8 | 5d+1 pi+ | 2 | 840/3528 | 5.5/0.6 | 3 | 5(3i) | -3 | 4 | 13 | $1,500 | 3 | Accessory Rail, Ammo is Subsonic, Cylinder seals against barrel so it can be suppressed

So, the question concerns a hypothetical of, let's say I want to run some setting that has absurdly high power level characters who far exceed the human norm, running around.

Let's say, oh, I don't know, Warhammer 40k. Nevermind that it has its own systems - not the point right now.

Let's say I have, I don't know, Primarchs dueling. Or a member of the Adeptus Custodes fighting a Daemon Prince.

In both of those cases, both combatants would have sufficiently high superhuman stats that, theoretically, you can end up in a situation where they can just repeatedly, reliably, dodge each other's attacks, because the attack roll has no bearing on whether or not you can use an Active Defense, outside of critical hits.

So then, are there ways in-system to penalize the enemy's defenses to try and get past the above potential issue, where two superhuman combatants of high skill will just never actually hit each other outside of critical hits?

UPD: DECEPTIVE ATTACK EXISTS LMAO

As someone who bought a bunch of used 4E hardbacks and papwerback POD books, it's nice to get the PDFs at a discount.

Here's what's up:

GURPS 4E Essentials

GURPS 4E Basic Set (2004)
GURPS Template Toolkit 1
GURPS Adaptations
How to Be a GURPS GM
GURPS 4E GM's Screen
4 GURPS 4E Tech supplements
GURPS Mass Combat

GURPS 4E Infiniite Worlds

GURPS 4E Infinite Worlds
4 GURPS 4E Hot Spots
GURPS 4E City Stats
4 GURPS 4E Infinite Worlds settings
5 GURPS 4E locations
GURPS 4E Lands Out of Time

GURPS Combat Action

GURPS 4E Martial Arts
Tactical Shooting
Gun Fu
3 GURPS High-Tech gun books
5 GURPS Action supplements
4 GURPS Martial Arts expansions
Transhuman Space: Martial Arts 2100

GURPS 4E Supers

GURPS 4E Supers
GURPS 4E Powers
4 GURPS Powers expansions
9 GURPS Power-Ups

GURPS 4E Horror

GURPS Horror 4E
Creatures of the Night 1-5
Infinite Worlds: Worlds of Horror
The Madness Dossier
Monster Hunters - 5 guides
GURPS Zombies + Day One

GURPS 4E Space

GURPS Space 4E
GURPS Spaceships
GURPS Psionic Powers
6 spacecraft sourcebooks
3 psionics sourcebooks
Tales of the Solar Patrol

GURPS 4E Fantasy

GURPS Fantasy 4E
GURPS Magic 4E
Banestorm
Alphabet Arcane
Thaumatology
6 Thaumatology sourcebooks

Price varies by the usual BOH rules. You can pay for some of the bundle or all of the bundle. You can chose to pay more. I linked every bundle, so you can check it out. No bundle is more than $40.00.

Happy reading everyone!