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<blockquote data-quote="bret" data-source="post: 61375" data-attributes="member: 713">Re: amusingActually, the D20 mage I was complaining about earlier in this thread is currently 10th level. I had not considered it important, so I didn't include that detail. If he had multiclassed Wizard/Rogue in a 2:1 ratio, he couldn't create as many magical items nor cast Teleport or Wall of Stone. He would have a Sneak Attack ability, which would be totally inappropriate for that character.In the other thread, someone asked how many points it would take in GURPS to have the equivilent ability scores to 32 point buy in DnD. Anyone who has tried doing mechanical conversions of systems eventually realizes that the results are not very good. In order to avoid the eventual comparison to an X level character, I tried to give a rough indication of how competent a 100 point character would be in general. Guess I failed to provide enough 'weasel words' to cover myself.As for how much of a background you can put on a 25 point or 75 point character, maybe <a href="http://fly.hiwaay.net/~srberry/gurps/NPC.html" target="_blank">these characters</a> can answer your question. These are highly (in my opinion, over) optimized characters that resulted from a challenge on the GURPS mailing list.Personally, I think that people should use the type of system that best fits the setting they want to create. It is just that I find D20 constraining in illogical ways.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bret, post: 61375, member: 713"] [b]Re: amusing[/b] Actually, the D20 mage I was complaining about earlier in this thread is currently 10th level. I had not considered it important, so I didn't include that detail. If he had multiclassed Wizard/Rogue in a 2:1 ratio, he couldn't create as many magical items nor cast Teleport or Wall of Stone. He would have a Sneak Attack ability, which would be totally inappropriate for that character. In the other thread, someone asked how many points it would take in GURPS to have the equivilent ability scores to 32 point buy in DnD. Anyone who has tried doing mechanical conversions of systems eventually realizes that the results are not very good. In order to avoid the eventual comparison to an X level character, I tried to give a rough indication of how competent a 100 point character would be in general. Guess I failed to provide enough 'weasel words' to cover myself. As for how much of a background you can put on a 25 point or 75 point character, maybe [url=http://fly.hiwaay.net/~srberry/gurps/NPC.html]these characters[/url] can answer your question. These are highly (in my opinion, over) optimized characters that resulted from a challenge on the GURPS mailing list. Personally, I think that people should use the type of system that best fits the setting they want to create. It is just that I find D20 constraining in illogical ways. [/QUOTE]

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