Recent content by dbm

Hopefully some of the 20-odd pages of new content in the revised rule book will promote the use of templates and provide examples.

I agree it’s a challenge, however the existing solution is templates. Every current GURPS product which does anything with characters (therefore pretty much all of them) includes multiple templates showing you what stats, advantages, disadvantages, and skills to buy to fit with a character...

Kromm mention Power Ups 11: Roll Your Own Skills again this week, in the GURPS News update. Should arrive early next year, so likely at a similar time to the Revised book.

You were speculating on the market value of WotC versus Games Workshop. Some internet searching suggest WotC is worth notionally $2.5bn, while GW is closer to $7bn.

That says GURPS to me… And really, this comes back to engine versus implied (or stated) world. With a system like GURPS you can run any campaign concept you want, you aren’t looking for a specific niche game. And GURPS has lots of detail on non-combat skills etc; just apply those to whatever...

Another option could be Chuubo’s Magical Wish Granting Engine. While it can include combat it can also do pastoral, slice-of-life kind of stuff. It’s more about the journey than the destination s I understand it.

I suspect commercial pilots have a higher than 12 in Piloting. You could probably work it out using the rules for points via training and calculating the amount of flight hours someone needs to achieve / maintain certification. That is an exercise left for the reader…

Kromm has shared some more details. The work is quite far developed but a formal announcement won’t come for a few weeks yet. It might get into the New Year before the formal announcement with full details.

I love pulp of every kind - pulp fantasy, pulp sci-fi, pulp horror, pulp supers. Savage Worlds is a great engine for pulp in my experience and does all those genres well. To be a really good system for pulp in my book, an RPG has to support characters who are capable but not indestructible...

If Asmodee are managing the brand on behalf of MEE then they would have to get the best deal for them. So Asmodee can’t simply give themselves the license for nothing or peanuts. They would have to out-bid Sophisticated Games for it, which they could do irrespective.

An American billion is 9 zeros, a British billion is 12, so it’s not even clearly language based…

Getting into the last 48 hours is an expansion for Hexploration Decks. These are a pretty cool set of GM aids for hex crawling, I use them for solo gaming but they are equally useful for GM prep or improv. This camping is adding two new decks but you can also pick up the five existing...

The points costs will be set to keep a degree of parity between systems. At the end of the day, the GM sets the point total, and if you want broadly capable characters that costs.

I’m a board gamer too, so the overall health of the company is of interest to me. [Edit for context - the post I was responding to is gone]

Also - this is probably a net-good for Asmodee as company. It sounds to me like they are leveraging their expertise on brand management, providing a service to MEE for some kind of service charge or commission. This would probably be a whole new revenue stream for Asmodee and help get them out...