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No more Mr. Nice Guy.

A gazebo that turns into a house during the full moon?

A gazebo that turns into a house during the full moon?

Our thief went full Godfather...

Finally nailed the undead traitor!

"Bombs... from the sky!!"

"Somebody ate Wheaties this morning!"

It seems they made the decision for the movie that only wizards and sorcerers actually cast spells. The druid never does, just wildshapes. Notice that Pine's character asks Simon to cast a healing spell! The problem is that robbed the bard of a big chunk of his shtick, leaving him as basically...

Indeed! I spent a stupefying amount of time on AmberMUSH.

I'll concede it's the best calculator made in Liechtenstein. :p I still have my dad's old slide rule around somewhere...

My 50g is still holding up fine. Though admittedly I more often use an emulator on my phone these days - faster and more convenient, plus I've ported all my programs over. I loved my 48SX dearly, but it did eventually give up the ghost. But it never had the sheer capabilities of the 50g. There...

Point of order! The 50g is the best calculator ever made! (I lust after the Prime's memory, speed, and color display - its graphing is amazing! - but the betrayal of RPN and RPL hurts grievously.) Is damage a dimension, though? It could plausibly be a logarithmic scale, like decibels. Though...

In practice, I don't find this to be a problem. The intensity boils down to coming up more often. If it were considered essential to model the distinction, though, it could certainly be done. Just say that hindrances, flaws, or whatever can grant a variable number of metacurrency points.

In all honesty, I don't think what you'd have left would be recognizable as GURPS. In effect you'd be creating a new game and slapping the name on it because marketing. Part of what GURPS is is the crunch level. I mean, if you don't believe me, look at GURPS Vehicles.

Demoralizing armies for fun, profit.