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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lordabdul" data-source="post: 7846332" data-attributes="member: 6994956">I came to GURPS on the tail end of 3e, and I found it quite kludgy indeed. I didn't play much with it, but I enjoyed the sourcebooks a lot for use with other systems. I only came to like (and actually use) GURPS when they released 4e which I would say was a very welcome clean-up and improvement overall. However, since it obviously still retains the core philosophy of GURPS, I wouldn't recommend it to someone who is allergic to DIY GM toolboxes, point-buy character creation, or simulation-based mechanics (as opposed to narrative-based mechanics).If everybody is the Hulk, it's probably fine. However if you mix vastly different power scales, I'll argue that no system really does it well anyway. I don't think GURPS is particularly worse on that front -- it might only be worse in the sense that it tries to pretend it's good at it when it's not really. But then again I never quite used GURPS for that so I'm the wrong person to ask. I use GURPS for gritty/street-level/human-scale games only.</blockquote>