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<blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 5241870" data-attributes="member: 48762"><p>disads? Just guessing again, but you do mean "DISADvantage" character points, don't you? [SBLOCK=example for those who don't know GURPS] Like let's say my character has the disadvantage of being compelled to hold forth a great length on any subject that he thinks makes him sound educated, whether he knows anything about it or not. This could really be a show-stopper in a play-by-post game, but disregarding that, this disadvantage might buy me about, what, 20 additional character points? (Character points are what you 'spend' to 'buy' ability scores, skills, etc, etc.) In practice, this looks very much like taking a disadvantage in HERO, too.[/SBLOCK]</p><p></p><p>Truthfully, I was thinking more along the lines that these characters would have very little need to take any disads. I was hoping to avoid them altogether.</p><p></p><p>And, um, I guess that combat in GURPS Traveller is probably just as deadly as combat used to be in the old GDW Traveller, huh? In other words, you really don't want to take any enemy on unless you <em>know</em> you've got a serious edge over him, preferably an edge that he doesn't know about!</p><p></p><p>And I pretty much want these characters to start out being butt-kickers and name-takers. I don't want to mess around with piddling crap. Life's too short! I need some honest to goodness space opera (the genre, not the FGU game of the same name) and I don't have time to waste while the characters get all "grown up" and figure out who they are. Is ya wid me???</p><p></p><p>And one more thing: The whole image of some dude on his starship with his cutlass by his side is ... quaint, true enough, but I want these folk to have the potential to be armed to the teeth, with weapons from GURPS Traveller, GURPS Space, and/or GURPS Ultra-Tech. (Oh, man! GURPS Ultra-Tech has the best goodies of all, too!) So maybe it's not so much Traveller as I led you to believe? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leif, post: 5241870, member: 48762"] disads? Just guessing again, but you do mean "DISADvantage" character points, don't you? [SBLOCK=example for those who don't know GURPS] Like let's say my character has the disadvantage of being compelled to hold forth a great length on any subject that he thinks makes him sound educated, whether he knows anything about it or not. This could really be a show-stopper in a play-by-post game, but disregarding that, this disadvantage might buy me about, what, 20 additional character points? (Character points are what you 'spend' to 'buy' ability scores, skills, etc, etc.) In practice, this looks very much like taking a disadvantage in HERO, too.[/SBLOCK] Truthfully, I was thinking more along the lines that these characters would have very little need to take any disads. I was hoping to avoid them altogether. And, um, I guess that combat in GURPS Traveller is probably just as deadly as combat used to be in the old GDW Traveller, huh? In other words, you really don't want to take any enemy on unless you [i]know[/i] you've got a serious edge over him, preferably an edge that he doesn't know about! And I pretty much want these characters to start out being butt-kickers and name-takers. I don't want to mess around with piddling crap. Life's too short! I need some honest to goodness space opera (the genre, not the FGU game of the same name) and I don't have time to waste while the characters get all "grown up" and figure out who they are. Is ya wid me??? And one more thing: The whole image of some dude on his starship with his cutlass by his side is ... quaint, true enough, but I want these folk to have the potential to be armed to the teeth, with weapons from GURPS Traveller, GURPS Space, and/or GURPS Ultra-Tech. (Oh, man! GURPS Ultra-Tech has the best goodies of all, too!) So maybe it's not so much Traveller as I led you to believe? :heh: [/QUOTE]
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