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.

So one of my players bought "talks to animals" and chose pigeons. There are lots in urban areas so it's an interesting choice. In the last game she didn't like one of the NPCs so she asked her pigeon friend to "bomb" him...

It broke my brain trying to figure out what skill to use for "pooping on someone while flying."

Suggestions?

Does anyone have any rules or systems they like to use to track time as a resource? In particular I’m running a magical university campaign right now and I want an easy way for players to be able to make meaningful trade offs of how they spend their time. I imagine an easy way to do this would be to just allot players a certain number of points a week representing blocks of time that aren’t preoccupied with prior obligations and they can elect to spend these studying, socializing, adventuring, or whatnot. And if they want to free up more blocks they could try to skip a class or miss some sleep.

So dos anyone have experience with managing time or quantifying it as a resource?

I run a Discord Community for PBP games using GURPS.

We teach the system in demos and long discussions as needed. No stupid questions. We have several experts in the system and over a dozen games in action at any time. Over 50 active players and hundreds of lurkers watching, curiously. Lurkers can read all active games, ask questions, but not interfere in the actual in-game RP.

We are a friendly community first, as gamers. If you want to join, we’d love to have you. Here’s the link: https://discord.gg/EnE2eJjjh2

Come on in, ask us anything (relevant) and see if there are any interesting games starting up, or pitch one and see if folks are interested.

is there a way to parry with bite attacks?

Looking for things that are more official methods. Trying to look into making a character uses their mouth to do things like catch bullets and enemy weapons.

so, im in an online GURPS game, and im going out of town for a couple weeks. so, i bought a cheap chromebook that was next day deliverable on amazon for $60, planning to use it to access foundry vtt and the Gurps Character sheet while away from my home PC. I should've read up on chromeos before i bought it, bc i thought i would be getting just a cheap barebones laptop that had shit specs, but could otherwise at least access the sorts of files and programs that my phone couldn't.

come to find out, chromeos removes basically 90% of the advantage of having a laptop at all instead of just using the discord mobile app... anyone have experience using the linux terminal to open GCS files on chromebook?

A monthly post to share your maps, tokens, and other image files with the GURPS community.

I’m running a magical university campaign and the next session picks up on the PCs starting their first class, and I’m sort of lost on what to do. Any advice on how to run a class as a scene/encounter? Should I have some footnotes ready for dialogue and potential role play interactions? How should I go about making a class seem fun and engaging to play through, or should I just give them another kid in the back of class to talk to then skip the cutscene? What about social/mental challenges? Should I just have them roll against math or history once to see if they get a passing grade for the day? They’re currently in an academic cores (at least the magical classes will be a bit easier cause I can just have them try to cast spells or practice magic)

Ps. I’m a first time GURPS dm and my only prior dm experience was a pathfinder one-shot a couple weeks ago, so I’m still trying to learn the ropes of actual running a game