Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 5933491" data-attributes="member: 50304">An excellent article with excellent ideas. It'll probably further irritate the folks that refuse to concede the concept of HP and HP Damage being abstractions instead of physical blood-and-guts, but they'd apparently rather complain about D&D than play GURPS so whatever. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Not having to re-scale a recurring monster or monster type from Solo to Elite to Standard to Minion to keep to-hit rolls relevant really appeals to me.I'm also enthused with the idea that getting a +1 Magical Sword is actually an advantage, not an expectation. If my PCs lose their equipment I don't have to contrive some way to replace or restore it in order to let them continue to operate as Level X characters and meet encounter and challenge levels without being slaughtered.Is it any worse than 3E with the Wizard tossing his 10d6 Fireball and 15d6 Cone of Cold with a Reflex save DC of 17 plus or minus feats (everybody inside a 20' radius start throwing saves!) and the fighter attacking at +21/+16/+11/+6 with his +2 Greatsword for 2d6 + 9 plus or minus Power Attack?Seriously, though, it looks like in the play-test they are working on the default d8 hit die for monsters using 4HP per die as the basic template. A "normal" 20th level monster is getting what, 80 HP?- Marty Lund</blockquote>

Verification