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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1873988" data-attributes="member: 537">Not really.GURPS may also be a point buy system, but (as of 3rd Ed at least) the point costs aren't consistent in terms of how they're calculated. You have at least three approaches that are used:1) Rarity: how many people (PC and NPC) in the game world would have a given ad/disad2) Process: how straightforward/complicated is the underlying in-game mechanism by which an ad/disad works3) Balance: what effect would an ad/disad have on gameplayOf these, only the third could really be said to be consistent with the effects-based paradigm that HERO is based on. I believe that in GURPS 4E they've tweaked the point costs so that they're now (more) consistently based on (3), but I haven't looked closely.In any case, yes, if GURPS was an effects-based system like HERO, then you could talk about the creeping GURPSification of D&D. The basic meaning, that you're using building blocks to create characters, is still the same.Licensing rights, d00d.</blockquote>