It really depends on the style of campaign style you want. Fenspace as a setting can easily handle both.... if the GM handles them right there's no reason why they can't mix together. Most wiki characters are going to be either NPC's, or PC's for a one-shot pickup game. A small subset of their abilities will only ever be useful or available to the PC's at any time - not to mention the cost involved in getting their help and getting them to give up their valuable time. They might require a task to be completed or something else from the PC - they might even require money which'll have to be earned. Really, it's just another opportunity for an adventure.
Even then, bringing along a ringer has its disadvantages. Both in XP, in reputation. Or in encouraging the enemy to up their response to match the new threat.
And remember that it doesn't matter how many points you throw at a character - they can still be outmatched by three sixes at the wrong time (For an in-universe view of it - take Jet going bounce-bounce-bounce-bonk at the end of the Motorcon story for a textbook example of the 'overconfident' disadvantage leading to one lethal botch for a high power character, and only being saved from 'turn in your character sheet' by the catfall ability.).
FATE, or other more cinematic systems would probably be a better match for Fenspace. GURPS is just a bit too crunchy for such an odd setting at times. I'd be inclined to use Fuzion..... out of sheer bloody laziness since all the Knight Sabers are either pre-made, or easily hackable from it ;P
As an aside, I'd think for gaming purposes it might be better to have more fleshed out character profiles - rather than hard-number stats, or simple a list of quirks. That'll let anyone playing a game in the setting adapt the power levels of the characters to match, rather than using what's set in stone. There's no reason why you couldn't make a 1kpt Noah Scott, or 500pt variant of AC if it suited the game balance. It gives people more flexibility.
Something like that. It's a bit wall-of-texty, but it gives a fair bit of background as to why Jet became the person she did, what sort of person Jet is, and what exactly Jet was doing and where she was in Fenspace at any particular era in the last 12 years. In most campaigns Jet would probably appear as an instructor for PC's (Panzer Kunst, Power armour, or home defence), or occasionally an unusual source of equipment. With a bit of luck, it's enough for someone to stat Jet up for whatever system they want to run....
EDIT: If there's no objections, I'll do the same thing for the rest of the Friggan stable. Everyone except Kotono has some odd background details - and Kotono's odd detail is that she was pretty normal. Daryl's grandfather was sentenced to life in prison twice by the same judge, ten years apart and under two different regimes.
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Even then, bringing along a ringer has its disadvantages. Both in XP, in reputation. Or in encouraging the enemy to up their response to match the new threat.
And remember that it doesn't matter how many points you throw at a character - they can still be outmatched by three sixes at the wrong time (For an in-universe view of it - take Jet going bounce-bounce-bounce-bonk at the end of the Motorcon story for a textbook example of the 'overconfident' disadvantage leading to one lethal botch for a high power character, and only being saved from 'turn in your character sheet' by the catfall ability.).
FATE, or other more cinematic systems would probably be a better match for Fenspace. GURPS is just a bit too crunchy for such an odd setting at times. I'd be inclined to use Fuzion..... out of sheer bloody laziness since all the Knight Sabers are either pre-made, or easily hackable from it ;P
As an aside, I'd think for gaming purposes it might be better to have more fleshed out character profiles - rather than hard-number stats, or simple a list of quirks. That'll let anyone playing a game in the setting adapt the power levels of the characters to match, rather than using what's set in stone. There's no reason why you couldn't make a 1kpt Noah Scott, or 500pt variant of AC if it suited the game balance. It gives people more flexibility.
Something like that. It's a bit wall-of-texty, but it gives a fair bit of background as to why Jet became the person she did, what sort of person Jet is, and what exactly Jet was doing and where she was in Fenspace at any particular era in the last 12 years. In most campaigns Jet would probably appear as an instructor for PC's (Panzer Kunst, Power armour, or home defence), or occasionally an unusual source of equipment. With a bit of luck, it's enough for someone to stat Jet up for whatever system they want to run....
EDIT: If there's no objections, I'll do the same thing for the rest of the Friggan stable. Everyone except Kotono has some odd background details - and Kotono's odd detail is that she was pretty normal. Daryl's grandfather was sentenced to life in prison twice by the same judge, ten years apart and under two different regimes.
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