GURPS-Share your thoughts

[Chainsaw Mage]

To take the "classic sales-tag-line" from GURPS, if I wanted to take my Fantasy Mage and team him up with a World War II Operative and send them searching for treasure in Renaissance Italy; I can. In d20 I would need d20 Past, D&D, and d20 Modern (or its WWII equivalent) to cover all the needed classes and options that are expected by most to give the characters variety and options.

Plus, the characters wouldn't all be playing by the same rules. To name one example, at negative hit points, the d20 Modern character would have to make a Fortitude save to stabilize; the D&D character would have to roll on % dice (10% chance, but you all knew that. ).

Mechanically, d20 Modern and D&D are *not* identical. So integrating characters would bring with it questions about which rules apply and which do not.

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

Anyone in the Austin area interested in GURPS may want to hit the south Lamar Half-Price Books. When I was in there yesterday I saw the 4e basic set (the slipcase, $125 version) for $20. They also had all of the 4e supplements for half-price.

Seems to suggest that GURPS 4th isn't exactly flying off the shelves, eh?
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[Dancer]

Seems to suggest that GURPS 4th isn't exactly flying off the shelves, eh?
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Well, that seems to be the reason for statement in the first place.

Question: What store sells a $125 book for $20? With a practice like that it's difficult to see how they are staying in business.

 

[Conaill]

Man, that's a great deal. Heck, if I could get someone to pick that up for me, I'd be willing to pay pal them the funds!

Same here!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I took a look at it in the store, as I promised. It DOES look better, but I still didn't like the layout. My RPG purchase jury is still out on it...

Question: What store sells a $125 book for $20? With a practice like that it's difficult to see how they are staying in business.

I suspect that the purchaser:

1) bought it, scanned it, and sold it to Half-Price Books, and is going to make up the difference by selling illegal downloads/.pdfs.

2) bought it, died, and it was sold out of his estate

3) he really thought it sucked.

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

I suspect that the purchaser:

1) bought it, scanned it, and sold it to Half-Price Books, and is going to make up the difference by selling illegal downloads/.pdfs.

2) bought it, died, and it was sold out of his estate

3) he really thought it sucked.

Or

4) bought it, had it fall apart (as most 4e books do due to sh***y binding) and sold it in disgust, vowing never again to buy from a company with such shoddy production values.

 

[sjmiller]

Or

4) bought it, had it fall apart (as most 4e books do due to sh***y binding) and sold it in disgust, vowing never again to buy from a company with such shoddy production values.

Well, considering that Steve Jackson Games has promised to replace, at no cost, any 4e book that has a bad binding or glue job, I would not hesitate to buy it if I was in the area. Heck, if I KNEW someone in the are I would have them buy it and send it to me.

Oh, and for the record, only the two basic books had the glue/binding problem. As soon as this was discovered SJG offered to replace them. It wasn't their fault the printer used bad glue, so I would not blame them for shoddy production values.

 

[Shadowpup]

I once tried to make a "regular Joe" whose one ability was telekinesis- in all of its forms and at great power. While my fellow players had nice powerful PCs of their own, my guy could barely lift a bowling ball, and lacked fine control and so forth. Even devoting all of my build points to one area, my PC was as useful as a bag of pasta. I abandoned the design in favor of a nympho nutcase with a bunch of skills.

On the other hand, had we been allowed access to GURPS Supers, my guy could have lifted cars or performed surgery with his telekinetic hand.

So, in my experience, GURPS is no more generic than D20.

HERO, on the other hand, has more than earned the right to be called generic IMHO.

Which is what I was going to say.

In HERO you can do anything. In a variety of different ways.

 

[Shadoglare]

Seems to suggest that GURPS 4th isn't exactly flying off the shelves, eh? :\

Or they're selling them at cost or just above, possibly less if they're used.
As I recall buy.com and amazon both sell them for about 1/3 off SRP and that's for brand new ones...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Amazon has the 2 books bundled for just under $50, Bookamillion has each book at just under $25.

Draw your own conclusions...