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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 4778402" data-attributes="member: 151">Sorry, typo there: it should read high-LEVEL fantasy.  I haven't played GURPS 4e, but I ran a high-fantasy game for 11 years in GURPS 3e quite successfully, so I'm not saying it can't...just that it suffered for several weaknesses that made it less suited than D&D for the game we were trying to play.  When I revived that campaign setting earlier this year, I did so in D&D 4e.GURPS is a wonderfully modular system, but some of it's sub-modules are (or were, at least) ridiculously over-complex.  The GURPS Vehicles wheel-barrow comes to mind.  Many of the modular systems offered solutions to the problems, but like D&D 3e, adding more rules or exceptions or what have you to a system renders it more counter-intuitive and less enjoyable, to my group at least.  Issues like having to guard against min-maxing were exacerbated by the GURPS system  The realistic combat meant could be deadly, regardless of level...and that sometimes that wasn't really appropriate or enjoyable (it remains a fact that the deadliest opponent my Supers players faced was not the evil super-villains, but a bunch of escaped mental patients armed with AK-47s.Many of these same elements occurred for high-level fantasy play (or the GURPS equivalent of high point-value play).  Of course, that term itself is a relative one and another potential weakness, depending on your tastes.  Character development in GURPS is astoundingly slow, overall, and the traditional carrot-and-stick of the level system is not present here.  Getting a new feat is nice, but when it takes you four sessions to get just one very basic feat...well, it's not quite as exciting...especially if it's part of a chain you're saving up for.None of which is to say that any of these issues can't be addressed using the rules as written...they can be.  But I've found that D&D now fills those needs with less work on my part and appeals more directly to my gaming style.  I don't you'd be disappointed playing high-fantasy with either system.</blockquote>

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