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<blockquote data-quote="dbm" data-source="post: 7636228" data-attributes="member: 8014">In my opinion, supers is probably the hardest type of game to run well in GURPS. It can be done, but you are giving yourself a lot of balls to juggle and, given the impact of super characters, those are bowling balls... To the key question of this thread (how to get people to play a complex game) the relevance here is to pick as straight forward an option as possible for that game. I started with Dungeon Fantasy. Modern horror would probably been even easier from a rules perspective, but my group doesn’t love horror as a genre. Your GM has given himself a really tough job and it sounds like he hasn’t put quite enough time into preparation.I don’t fully agree with you here, as there are times and places when you only want enough granularity. There is a generic task difficult table in the core rules to help support this style of play, and series like Action also have more cinematic and less precise options to game with.Dice mechanisms are a funny one. I really dislike d20 as a primary randomiser (he said on a D&amp;D forum) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />GURPS isn’t for everyone and this isn’t a thread trying to convince you otherwise!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dbm, post: 7636228, member: 8014"] In my opinion, supers is probably the hardest type of game to run well in GURPS. It can be done, but you are giving yourself a lot of balls to juggle and, given the impact of super characters, those are bowling balls... To the key question of this thread (how to get people to play a complex game) the relevance here is to pick as straight forward an option as possible for that game. I started with Dungeon Fantasy. Modern horror would probably been even easier from a rules perspective, but my group doesn’t love horror as a genre. Your GM has given himself a really tough job and it sounds like he hasn’t put quite enough time into preparation. I don’t fully agree with you here, as there are times and places when you only want [i]enough[/i] granularity. There is a generic task difficult table in the core rules to help support this style of play, and series like [i]Action[/i] also have more cinematic and less precise options to game with. Dice mechanisms are a funny one. I really dislike d20 as a primary randomiser (he said on a D&D forum) :) GURPS isn’t for everyone and this isn’t a thread trying to convince you otherwise! [/QUOTE]

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