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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 127956" data-attributes="member: 924">Gurps is a munchkin's wet dream...Why? Because it's point based, which while in theory allows for 'balanced' characters, but in practice, it allows munchkinism to run rampant.Basically, by taking tons and tons of disadvantages that do not affect a character in combat (like say, Stuttering, or male pattern baldness or fear of sheep), then using those points to give character advantages in combat (or combat ability).It also lets characters take disadvantages that only give the character points to spend on his character, but basically affect the whole group. The "Hunted" disads, most notably. If someone big nasty group is hunting for one character, in effect, they will also be hunting the group the character is with all the time.Point based systems work okay in Hero, because it's meant to be a superhero game (and you want to be somewhat munchkiny there, I think)</blockquote>