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.

I have a little problem with building a Patron. It's for a character who is very precious as a "tool" for every big player in the main campaign setting (not counting another dimensions, which players will be able to go to). Politics, mafia, FBI/CIA, biggest corporations etc. Every big player (and a lot of smaller ones) had used him and usually is going to use him again in the future.

BUT the only thing they do is protecting him from the worst (no other aid - these I will buy as contact groups). And perhaps by the public knowledge that is someone try to eliminate him, the big players will be very angry. How to build something like that? Are there some Patronesque equivalents of Social Engineering Keeping in Contact?

Hello All,

In pathfinder when you start combat you are flat footed (lose your Dex to defense)until your turn. Is there an equivalent for that in gurps?

I added the modifiers I wanted to Insubstantiality and added reduced time 1 to make it instantaneous but at the power dodges description the dodge score is calculated as Basic Speed + 3 + Talent/2 what is this talent score isnt talent for skills insubstantiality is a trait can anyone explain this talent thing to me

I’ve been struggling to find GURPS 4e books for buildings, strongholds, etc. Rules for costs, time, personnel, and anything else that potentially applies. Ideally I’d like to find something akin to the Pathfinder 1e book “Ultimate Campaign”.

I’m kind of liking the idea of Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying so that I have everything I need, racial templates, magic, gear, in just a couple of books.

Or I could go with the two core books, Magic, Low Tech, plus how many other books?

What do you guys consider to be your minimum set of books for a fantasy campaign?

Hi guys, pretty new to GURPS, i want my character to have the ability to conjure daggers out of shadows, how would i come to do that, please?

Just want to know what people think about this type of optional rule(s).

1: Roll 3d6 for your skill/ability check as normal but without pertinent modifiers. (No bonuses from certain maneuvers.)

2:If you succeed, proceed to a 1d20 instead of traditional 3d6 attack roll. I would use AC here instead of DR + Dexterity, although they would add into AC naturally. Calculating might be strange, but it's doable between ADnD, BFRPG and GURPS right now for me.

3: If you FAIL, proceed to the same 1d20 roll above BUT WITH a penalty equal to your Margin of Failure.

*Note: For both occurrences above, your regular bonuses such as AoA and such factor into the 1d20 roll like a usual 3d6 roll.

This arose as somebody who just likes to look at rules. I never liked how a low skill level means much of anything. Skill levels (IRL) don't necessarily translate to doing poorly or not. Somebody with zero training and terrible balance and drunk can still stab somebody with a sword more than 50% of the time. Now, if they have REALLY (bad...ahem)/no skill, then it should be pretty much assured it never happens.

Literally they fail the skill roll AND the attack roll. And if they succeed in THEIR skill, that doesn't really mean much, only that they can do what they can do, provided they can actually do it when they need to. Not want to.

I don't like randomness that much. I'm hoping these rules might help somebody. I haven't tried this on Active Defenses yet though. I wouldn't use these rules for them as far as I can see. Being on the defense requires more skill than on offense. The best gunman can be taken out by said poorly trained drunk person above because his jacket gets caught up and he can't pull his revolver out in time. Yeah, some will say "modifiers". Personally, I say really bad skill checks because they have no skill. Otherwise, they need a Perception check to know their jacket was in the way, a Dexterity check to move it, another Dex check to be able to be able to Ready their gun, and finally the Ready maneuver to actually put their hand on their gun.

To clarify the above, succeeding in the Skill check AND the Attack roll is the equivalent of taking all of those skill checks.

Really hoping this decreases randomness and allows skill to actually benefit those it belongs to. Have a happy Thanksgiving too!

Say you've got a big area effect enhancement on an Affliction or attack that can hypothetically apply to many, many targets in the area. Is there a simple, elegant way to resolve rolls for a large number of targets, all of whom may or may not have wide variations in resistance stats (HT or ST or whatever)? Same question for inanimate objects & structures vs. area effect damage.

Presumably with inanimate "stuff", GM can simply ignore material or objects that have no narrative importance. A bunch of dirt gets kicked up, branches are aflame, and so on. But maybe it's important to know how many trees get knocked down, which drywall structures get blasted apart, etc.

Is the general approach to have a few "average" stats for a category of targets in the area? Roll for the highest stats of the toughest targets?

What is the most pleasing and less head-hurting technique for handling this at the table?