A visit to the SJG website has netted me a copy of GURPS 4e Lite, to take a look at the system (as well as several other freebies - yay loot!) and I have to say that it looks pretty good. Making contested rolls by margin of success seems a little of - if two people are arm wrestling, one with Strength 6 and the other 10, and they roll (in order) 4 and 9, the guy barely half as strong still wins? I suppose it could happen if the strong guy hadn't been sitting properly braced and tipped on the edge of his chair or something, an that means Mr. 4 rolled much better given it's 3d6... (or, and I have to say I love this terminology, "d666") Compared to D&D and most computer RPGs Hit Points are Low with a capital L, but then the RPG contention that you can get hit a dozen or more times with a longsword and not be seriously inconvenienced is one of the more ridiculous in the first place, and not really borne out by most fiction, either - oh, sure, the heroes get nicks and sctratches that generate a dramatic blood stain all the time, but any solid hit will usually be cause for at least a quick breather scene to bandage up and recover, and/or not using the arm with the wounded shoulder/limping on the leg with the through-and-through to the thigh/etc. for a while. Exceptions (such as those who fall into the Determinator trope) are specifically showing off their baddassery in having a high Health and High Pain Threshold.
Judging by the skills listed in Lite, I'm a probably a 30pt character, maybe 50 at max unless you want to count instances of "I dreamed about this happening" deja vu as psychic premonitions. (Which I don't since a neurological basis for deja vu has been adequately documented and I well know how unreliable my memory is.) This is depressing, when a "typical low power, modern game" with detectives or whatever is 100 points.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Judging by the skills listed in Lite, I'm a probably a 30pt character, maybe 50 at max unless you want to count instances of "I dreamed about this happening" deja vu as psychic premonitions. (Which I don't since a neurological basis for deja vu has been adequately documented and I well know how unreliable my memory is.) This is depressing, when a "typical low power, modern game" with detectives or whatever is 100 points.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows