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I don't necessarily disagree with that. There's a learning curve to figuring out which pieces you need. However, that's why this...

That's exactly the beaty of GURPS, it's just I don't think that particular type of game is currently in favor. Rather than building a...

To me that's the beauty of GURPS and other "generic" systems: you can make exactly what you want, rather than being limited by whatever...

a decade ago or more, when i last ran a GURPS game, I boiled most if not all of the skills down to BANG! skills to help the players.

It’s out. GURPS Skill Trees. It’s a good book about reconfiguring the skill system through a skill tree approach. It there’s also some...

Yeah... lately, I've been having issues with getting embedded links to work. I edited my original post. The link there now seems to...

Mission X is a project that popped up on my Kickstarter feed. Mission X by Douglas H. Cole — Kickstarter...

The latest volumes of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society are now here, in both printed and PDF formats! You can grab your own...

Whenever I'm running a D&D-like setting, I always have halflings as the most common (although not most powerful) race. They don't...

This is the reason most well developed complex fantasy worlds give for the predominance of humans. Our ability to breed like rabbits...

Humans can reproduce a lot faster than Dwarves and Elves. Thats going to give the. A huge advantage in building population.

That would have been a great game!!! I'm sorry life kept it from going the distance (though I more than understand).

I always felt that GURPS emulated "real life" well without being incredibly lethal. Taking psionics as a skill set appealed to me at the...

I once ran a short-lived Scanners game using GURPS back in the day. I used Psi World as a basis and built off from some of the concepts.

FGU's Psi World (still available in print via the FGU website) is pretty much Scanners with the serial numbers filed off.