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.

Hi there! Found out about transhuman space but the short description I found of the main book didn't exactly give me a clear vibe of what's the setting is about. Could anyone point out some neat stuff about the setting that could get someone's interest flowing?

Strength (the JoJo stand, representing the Tarot card Strength)

No TL (it's a unique shape-shifting Stand, that is spiritually bound to its user and looks like a TL6 freighter ship)

No cost (can't be produced)

SM+11 (~30 000 tons, 200 yards, dST/HP 200), streamlined

Systems:

Front hull: [1] Steel Armour (dDR 10)

[2-4] any of the Reconfigurable Systems:

Robot Arm (dST 200)

Steel armor belts (6 belts, dDR +10 to any system)

Structural reinforcement (up to 3 systems, dHP +15%, +30%, +60%)

Cargo hold (1500 tons)

Passenger seating (2000 seats)

Production line (produces $1,5M/day, aids repair)

Hangar Bay (1000 tons capacity, 200 t/min loading)

Maw (d-Damage 28d-1 crushing, connects to digestive system)

Digestive system (300 tons capacity, d-Damage 5d crushing)

[5,6] Cargo hold (3000 tonnes of ballast)

Center hull:

[1] Steel Armour (dDR 10)

[core] Caged Spirit (Stand power, 5 magical Power Points for any onboard systems)

[3-5] Reconfigurable Systems (same as above)

[6,7] Cargo hold (3000 tonnes of ballast)

Rear hull:

[1] Steel Armour (dDR 10)

[Core] Control room (fully automated except 1 captain and mini-habitat for him)

[3-5] Reconfigurable Systems (same as above, with additional):

Naval engine (-1 Power Point, 0,005g, max speed 20 mph)

[6,7] Cargo hold (3000 tonnes of ballast)

Overall:

Crew: 1 (the captain/stand user, to whom the ship is bound, the rest is fully automated)

Regeneration: 2 dHP/hour (plus fully automated repair)

Can turn a system into Digestive system to crush the opponents onboard.

The stand user can use telekinesis on ship's interior details that are detached from the main mass, but still located inside of the ship.

Transformation of and into smaller and larger systems is also possible, but it'd be a mouthful to write them out.

The Stand's power is able to create mass to a certain extent: if the stand user dies, Stand dies with him, and the colossal ship transforms back into a regular 6-seat motor boat.

I'm a brazilian student, already dm GURPS. Sadly i have less free time than before, so i would like to play a nice campaing. My english understanding is mediocre and i speak it badly.

If someone knows were i can find PT-BR or patient DMs tables, help me find that RPG joy again.

Thank you for the atention.

Refers to the rules on page 47 of Dungeon Fantasy Companion 2.

I'd like to cost out some other forms using Basic Set animals like the tiger shark and large boar, but I don't understand how they derive the cost of the forms. For example, the Tiger (Monsters, p. 56) is 119 points as is the Bear.

Or is this ability in DFRPG costed out using GURPS Powers (which I do not own) and then just printed as is in Dungeon Fantasy Companion 2?

Does anyone have any templates/flowcharts they use to simplify building a balanced character? Like chose at least 1 social skill, then n of x traversal skills (hiking, climbing, acrobatics, etc). I was looking for something that would make filling the skill section out on the character sheet quicker and easier, without having to skim through the whole book of skills, and to make sure that characters have a decently versatile, and balanced spread of skills?

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?

**TL;DR** For the mechanical side of it I’m using the templates in Dungeon Fantasy 9 for reference. As for the roleplay aspect of it, I figure the spirit just goes on a rampage until the players do something that I feel would be antiquate to calm/purify it, or they reduce it to 0 hp first.

As for the long version, I’m running a campaign set in a magical university and I’m having an end-of-summer bonfire celebration as a welcoming/naming ceremony for the new students (a couple days after the start of the school year). There’s a big wooden pier built in a clearing a ways off into the woods away from the main campus complex. At sunset the pier is lit and a short ceremony is held to name/initiate new freshmen, and invoke the school’s spirits (mascots) to bless them. Otherwise the rest of the night’s festivities are just a gathering to socialize and mingle with your new classmates.

Well this year, someone has gone wrong and angered a local nature spirit, or freed a trapped entity from under the school grounds. In any case, there’s a malevolent spirit rampaging through the forest now and posing a danger to anyone in its path— and of course it’s the players’ responsibility to put a stop to it. I’m not sure of its exact form but I’m thinking probably fiery, red and black, and possibly adding wind or other elements to it? The school’s mascot is an alpaca-phoenix (name pending) and I’m considering using a corrupted form of it as the monster, possibly too disfigured by the corruption to be recognizable, or possibly being fused with some of the other animal mascot spirits? As for how to defeat it, I’m not sure exactly but I figured just incapacitating it the old fashioned way with damage will suffice, otherwise any sufficiently creative solution the players come up with I would accept. I have also considered having one or more of the other school spirits show up to aid the players, or help them even be **able** to take it down, ala power-of-friendship-power-rangers-style-laser. Any suggestions on how one might go about purifying/pacifying an angry spirit in GURPS?

I’ve also considered the possibility that the “uncontrollable spirit” was actually part of the ceremony, and it’s actually tradition that each year they ‘release’ it as a test for the new students, and that would explain why the teacher didn’t/couldn’t do anything to stop it. (The spirit’s not actually corrupted, they just transformed its appearance to seem out of control and disguise its true nature)

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.