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.

Imagine an attack that creates a bigger effect hitting the same target three times. That's what I'm thinking of doing.

How would you make something like this? I was thinking of creating the three-hit effect as an innate attack with a trigger (needs to have hit the target three times to do its damage) limitation, with follow-up as the "standard" damage

is there another way of doing such thing?

edit: I think I misunderstood the trigger limitation... I don't know what I should use instead though

Trying to think about how to create a character who basically is one of those puppet ninjas from manga/anime.

What I'm looking at is the telekinesis animate object thing, but I'm not entirely sure how it works or how to build the puppet.

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in LTC2 they have rules for SM-/+ for weapons and armor; something I noticed is you have to be really strong to wield SM+1 a weapon. For Downsizing for something like the halberd (correct me if I'm wrong) making it size mod -1 as SM 0 makes it only do one less damage in every regard but changes its strength requirement needing a 20 to swing every round to 15!(also keep the same range)

This feels like a slight damage reduction for a massive useability increase, is this right?

Good day, GURPS gamemasters and players! I am in the process of both adapting and extending VtM setting to GURPS ruleset. And I did a bunch of traits already, but have found myself stuck on domain advantage. My brain hurts already. How would you describe Domain advantage in GURPS terms? What existing GURPS advantages would you use? How many CP it would cost? What do you think basically? Thanks.

Edit: Domain basically is the territory a vampire controls and feeds on. It can be a building (club, parking, etc.), a street, a neighbourhood, a district, etc. The main thing is that domain is granted by the Prince like mafia boss grants a territory or a business to his underling. A chosen vampire is the authority in the area.

Hello. I want to preface this by saying I am looking at GURPS as a tool kit mainly for solo roleplaying. I am looking at GURPS Core + Magic + Martial or Basic Roleplaying Universal Engine. I want to play mainly fantasy setting and am only familiar with OSE and stuff like Scarlet Heroes and * Without Numbers, and some ICRPG. I try to cobble together systems here and there.

So what exactly can I expect from getting GURPS? Should I only get core or do I have more than enough to play with using core + martial + magic? I am debating going that route or go 3rd edition revised plus BRP while waiting for 4th edition revised.

I’m curious to know how other GMs handle point distribution. To be clear, I’m not asking about how you evaluate player performance (roleplay, MVP, etc.), but specifically about the amount of points per session.

The Basic Set suggests around 5 points, but after running a campaign for 18 sessions, that number is starting to feel a bit arbitrary to me.

For those running long campaigns: how do you handle this? Do you stick to the book's recommendation, or do you have a different pacing method?

So, we all know the Telegraphic Attack from Martial Arts, my question is, is there any consensus regarding if this option can be used against foes that are unaware about you? And if yes, how would it work?

For example, someone sneaks behind an enemy, they're unaware that there's someone right behind them, the attacker takes an attack maneuvre and adds the telegraphic attack option, so would they just get +4 without the foe getting +2 to defense? (because the enemy isn't aware of the attack and thus doesn't get to defend) or how would that work?