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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2658896" data-attributes="member: 177">I've not tried to run a game with the newest system, but by description it hasn't changed so much as to change my opinion of it.  I find that GURPS puts so much effort into trying to be "General Use" that it has lost any hope of having flavor of it's own.  In addition, the mechanic is tedious to work with, both in prep and in play.  I use GURPS when I don't have any other ruleset that'll do the job at all.  In general, I think GURPS suffers from a simple fact - it is usually better to use a tool designed to do a specific job than to use a tool that's designed to do many jobs.  A dedicated screwdriver will almost always d4rive screws better than the thing you find on your pocketknife.  And these days, you have to go quite a way to find a genre that isn't reasonably covered by another system.That being said, the supplements for GURPS are often fantastic, because they contain a great deal of fine informaton and ideas that aren't really wed to the rules.</blockquote>