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The LONG wait ends - 'Girl Genius Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game - Powered by GURPS' has been released!
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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8384035" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>That's lovely, but there's no reason to use D&D as the point of comparison. Honestly <em>Fate</em> or <em>Wushu</em> or <em>Powered by the Apocalypse</em> or <em>Dramasystem</em> would be better points of comparison. Girl Genius is a high-flying action-comedy which falls very far into the cinematic tropes of pulp novels and cliffhanger style comics. Trad style games don't always replicate what one might want out of such a world. For example, there is no need to know exact jump distance in feet or a check to see if the hero jumped a chasm -- they <em>will</em> jump the chasm (they're the hero), the roll should be to see if they end up landing on their feet with weapon drawn to engage the enemy or hanging by their fingertips so that the enemy can gloat (which they will do). </p><p></p><p>Mostly Foglio's preference, but it denotes that the world seems to be at the point where electricity has been discovered and is well-known, but simply not at the point of houses being wired with electric lights (of course most of the electricity is used by mad scientists, but not the general public, but that's a whole 'nother knot to untie).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 8384035, member: 6799660"] That's lovely, but there's no reason to use D&D as the point of comparison. Honestly [I]Fate[/I] or [I]Wushu[/I] or [I]Powered by the Apocalypse[/I] or [I]Dramasystem[/I] would be better points of comparison. Girl Genius is a high-flying action-comedy which falls very far into the cinematic tropes of pulp novels and cliffhanger style comics. Trad style games don't always replicate what one might want out of such a world. For example, there is no need to know exact jump distance in feet or a check to see if the hero jumped a chasm -- they [I]will[/I] jump the chasm (they're the hero), the roll should be to see if they end up landing on their feet with weapon drawn to engage the enemy or hanging by their fingertips so that the enemy can gloat (which they will do). Mostly Foglio's preference, but it denotes that the world seems to be at the point where electricity has been discovered and is well-known, but simply not at the point of houses being wired with electric lights (of course most of the electricity is used by mad scientists, but not the general public, but that's a whole 'nother knot to untie). [/QUOTE]
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