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All I can say is I saw a number of people using GURPS back in the day, and apparently none of them noticed that. I wonder if it ever showed up on example characters anywhere (which would have set off alarm bells)?

That apparently originated from some odd real-world historical situation, but I've long since forgotten the details.

That would make sense as skill-splitting is often a syndrome of people very knowledgeable about a subject who can't or won't step back and ask the question about what situation in a game is going to care about the difference (or how many of the end users will). I'm not always a fan of massive...

That tends to make most people building a power suit type not likely to use it though; it tends to make you into a one-weapon-system wonder and that both inflexible, and, honestly, a little dull. No, I got that, but it still has the above problem. The custom-suit gig is less important to...

Not to put too fine a point on it but--different people care about different things. News at 11.

Honestly, that'd be true of most attacks if people had seen serious wounds before. Exterior wounding of any account is--not pretty--at the best of times.

Probably prohibitive licensing conditions/costs. Licensed games are really far more fraught than most people realize.

Reduced a bit of the tendency for Dexterity to be the god-stat. Not a perfect solution for the reasons you say (though I vaguely remember Toughness was more useful against area attacks), but still better than the TORG problem. Never quite understood why the perfect symmetry thing was...

There were some non-trivial differences between Masterbook and TORG at least. As I mention above, using 2D10 instead of a D20 just as one I remember off the top (and that mattered more for these games because of how the dice interacted with success than a lot of games).

Huh. Thought it was Masterbook from my casual readthrough. It was pretty far along toward it at least (used the 2D10 instead of D20 at least as I recall).

Much the same. I've definitely had the reaction of "Yeah, guess I should have expected to be taken behind the shed for that one."

As I recall John Carter is the simplest of those (I don't think I have that one, though I do have Conan, Fallout and Star Trek which all feel vaguely of a piece in complexity to me, but I also haven't got so into the guts to be sure of that).

I don't think I'd read that as requiring separate skills, however. At most it says if you're in an environment where you're exposed to firearm types that weren't likely to be used to, you'll take penalties, but there's nothing there that spells out how you decide that; certainly nothing to...

They're far more than just that, and if you're charging for the privilege, I even more conclude the players should have some input if its not a case of one off sessions. If you think anything about this paragraph made me conclude there's less problems here, I have to disabuse you. Not my...

Yeah. I reserve on-the-fly changes for absolute emergencies, and late-in-the-day houserules for things that just didn't show their problems early on, and more than half the time that's as much by player request as anything.

Is that new as of 4e (because I ran two campaigns of it with 3e years ago and don't recall the manditory specialties at all; I might have forgotten the Beam Weapons distinction (though I don't think so) and the other four would have been irrelevant in any of the games I ran, and I was referring...

The only problem you run into with that approach in Hero is its typically discouraged embedding Multipowers in Multiforms, and doing it with a VPP even moreso.

Actually, these days it does. I'd argue its underfed though. There was a set of natural disaster rules in one of the supplements for Hero at one time, but it might have been as far back as 4e and I don't remember precisely where it was. Yeah. Its probably not something that beyond that...

There have been some attempts at that I've seen in some other games here too (I want to say Hero and BASH UE).

I don't recall having trouble figuring out what to do in the game, but then, our play was informed by years of experience with somewhat parallel types of games so that might color my view. I'm not going to argue that you had to be able to engage with the tendency to be, shall we say, less than...