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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Panzeh" data-source="post: 9791227" data-attributes="member: 82267">I will say, I think the way GURPS works in chargen does kind of necessitate a very different approach to a lot of other TTRPGs- it works best if you come up with the concept and work out the details of the character first, and then sit down with the GM and make the character 1 to 1.  You can't just do like D&D where you just throw the players handbook at people and they can bring something to you with no big deal, trying to run GURPS like that is a fast way to hit everyone's analysis paralysis.If you think of it as a way to implement a concept, I think the granularity serves the game quite well.  And the advantage is, in play, if somebody makes a dragon, it's more than a couple of modifiers like a D&D game, if you've given people the point budget, they really do feel, in almost every mechanic, like what they've made.  When you do things like massively simplify skills, I think you lose a lot of the way to differentiate between mundane humans at a normal level, whereas they do have ways to have simplified skills for superhero-level games in the wild card system.With the skill system, i can make 4 normal doctors feel very different in the things they're good at as medical professionals, i can make a variety of SF operators who feel very different because a lot of the soldiering skills are broken out.Though definitely, the zeitgeist leans more toward, less character creation in general, books with very evocative art and strong playbooks to let you know what kind of characters make sense in the fiction.  But GURPS is trying to be universal, so, this isn't something it can really do.</blockquote>

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