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You get a few examples of potential actions you could succeed at at different tiers of proficiency, but no numbers. To be fair, I just...

None of that's in the skill write-ups anymore? If true, that is a little odd.

Two things: 1. As always noted, people on fora are not the populace as a whole. That doesn't mean that a poll here is automatically...

I never had much of an issue with tripping cubes, for the same reason I don't have issues with tripping foes in zero g. It's about...

Atomic Horror. I'm a lifetime fan of 50's SF movies, so its my favorite GURPS product.

I own all three, and some games made for the prior two. They're still pretty obscure and at least moderately old at this point.

A separate question of course. Part of it is what "level" means various not only from game to game but from class to class within a game.

I don't think I've played anything in a very long time that had that big a gap between mechanical support at both ends (though I...

A lot of that turns on two things: 1. How long do people play? 2. How fast are they willing to let levelling go? As an example, in...

Since we got a similar line of discussion over in 6E+ thread, I think nailing the right formula for the zero to hero is the trick. 5E...

Yeah, but there's nothing about a level based game that mandates that 1 is the default starting point. Its just such a tradition people...

You see a little of this in 13th Age too, where some effects are more pronounced on targets that have dropped below a certain hit point...

Well, that's an element of deciding some things take actions that probably don't really need to. That's a case of a process that...

Different people are going to like different things. The 3-action economy felt like a good process once I got used to it, and I know...

I was thinking of typical heroic starts in non-superheroic Hero, but the principal is the same.